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April 28, 2017 | Rome | "UrbsArt 2017" | Hungarian Academy

April 22, 2017 | Rome | "MAAM_give me five day" | MAAM Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere in Metropoliz

December 17, 2016 | Rome | MAAM Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere of Metropoliz | Permanent installation

August 20, 2016 | Galatone (Le) | Devil's Festival V Edition | Masseria Lo Prieno

August 21, 2015 | Galatina (Le) | "Memories" for "Le Corti a Mezzanotte" | curated by Katia Olivieri | Palazzo Bardoscia


The "Game of the World" or "Bell" is one of the oldest of which we have memory.

In its perfect geometry according to the orthogonal axes North - South, East - West and North East - South West, North West - South East it reconstructs the representation of the Cosmos itself, in the will and in the attempt to know and discover the laws that govern it.

In the era in which man was unable to explain the forces of Nature such as wind, storms, floods, attributing these phenomena to evil entities, constituted a sort of sacrificial and propitiatory practice aimed at appeasing his anger.
It is remembered in shamanism as a ritual aimed at freeing the soul kidnapped by dark forces to bring it back to healing.

The shaman was the only one able to complete, with three jumps, the long and tiring journey into the abyss, a journey full of obstacles, which in the Bell can be identified in the fire of candles placed along the dividing lines of the boxes.

Esoterically it is a metaphor for the Initiatic Journey, a strenuous journey towards the center in the depth of the Self, which presupposes solitude and depersonalization to give way to Universality and therefore to the achievement of Gnosis.

Every jump in a new square presupposes the overcoming of an obstacle, the pursuit of a victory.

The shaman, in the first jump, reads: "with the first jump I reach the branches of the high sky".
In esotericism it corresponds to the "rough stone", to the brutality of matter, to the Force, to the recognition of the shapeless mass, to the awareness and awareness of a reality.
The initiate learns to see.

The second jump is the most difficult one for the shaman, who recites "with the second jump I reach the caves, beyond the white clouds".
Corresponds to the "cubic stone", the polished stone, the divine Beauty of form, that reality which, after becoming aware of it, one learns how to model, digging into the cave of one's innermost self, evaluating other points of view, correcting our flaws.

The third jump is the cathartic one in which the shaman says: "with the third jump I reach the spirit I was looking for".
It belongs to Wisdom, in that essential balance between mind and heart.
The heart, like a precious treasure, must be treated with delicacy and purity, protected and protected under a glass bell, treated with white gloves.

Only when Strength, Beauty and Wisdom are equally pursued will man be able to perceive Perfect Harmony.

Modeling a shapeless stone, reorienting our Being towards the center, our Heart, to give it Sense - Life - Light in the purity and perfection of the Cubic Stone: this is the Initiatic Path.

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