Marco Giordano's second solo show at Frutta Gallery in Rome

Marco Giordano (born 1988 in Turin, lives in Glasgow) presents his second solo exhibition at Frutta Gallery in Rome. The gallery space resembles soundproof recording studios. At the center, large seashells dripping foamy water are mounted on vertical iron supports, functioning as megaphones through which the sea speaks. Surrounding them, mirror-like wall works feature cryptic, lapidary phrases—too sibylline and cheeky not to come directly from nature or the unconscious. The key twist lies in the differentiated coloring of the texts, alluding to the progressive filling used in karaoke as a video-graphic device to aid singing. Here, the profound and the frivolous (the metaphysical and the pop) intersect perfectly, opening onto the sublime. The mystical detail of the triangular shape of the shell support bases serves as the cherry on top.