Gramma_Epsilon female art gallery

On Thursday, June 18, at 18:00 pm, the group exhibition Grammars of the Possible: Between Word and Sign, curated by Paolo Cortese, opens at Gramma_Epsilon Gallery in Athens. The exhibition brings together works by Mirella Bentivoglio, Amelia Etlinger, Elisabetta Gut, and Greta Schödl, placing in dialogue four distinct approaches to the relationship between writing, image, and poetic form. While each artist developed an autonomous and deeply personal visual language, all were connected to Bentivoglio through friendships, correspondence, artistic exchange, and a shared investigation into visual poetry and experimental forms of language.

This is the first retrospective of the Roman artist, four years after her passing. The exhibition will present 40 works, including paintings, collages, sculptures and artist’s books. The exhibition focuses in particular on the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, during which the artist explored the symbolic and material qualities of her chosen supports. After an initial figurative phase that attracted significant public interest, Savoi began to investigate what lies beyond the figure, what is not visible but can be sensed and what exists in potential. Her attention was especially drawn to drapery and the “fold,” which she explored not only for its visual implications but also for its conceptual dimensions.

Mirella Bentivoglio recalled that although the act of “folding” could be associated with the feminine and domestic sphere, in Alba Savoi’s work it took on an entirely different meaning, so powerful and vital was her way of manipulating the canvas.