Natale Zoppis Explores Dust as Infinite at Turin Exhibition

Natale Zoppis (Verbania, 1952) presents a solo exhibition in Turin inspired by philologist Giovanni Semerano's reinterpretation of Anaximander's maxim. Semerano corrected the traditional translation 'Man is born from the infinite and returns to the infinite' by tracing the Greek 'apeiron' to the Akkadian 'eperu', meaning 'dust, mud', thus rendering: 'Man is dust and to dust he shall return.' Zoppis translates this linguistic excavation into visual art by scanning accumulations of dust on glass and acetate sheets. The resulting images evoke starry empyreal realms, microcosms, and intersecting destinies. The dust particles, freed from hermeticism, carry the weight of memory and become bearers of meaning in pure becoming. The infinite, once misunderstood, now reveals itself in its full recklessness. Upon close scrutiny, the mysterious dust drawings tear apart; the 'dance of constellations' and perpetual motion of corpuscles proudly exhibit the infinite experiences of civilization, crystallizing in the frame with rare evocative sharpness. The exhibition was reviewed by Federica Maria Giallombardo.