Chiara Diamantini

Chiara Diamantini (Senigallia 1949)

Chiara Diamantini extracts phrases from famous pages in literature (Shakespeare, Leopardi, Nietzsche, Kafka, Eliot, Breton and others) and assembles them in a strict visual order: her citation of the published word, which she extracts from the original metric or narrative text, (using graphics, colours, materials, photographs or small transfers) take on new meaning without harming the matrix text. It is broken up, but never mishandled. The fragments are left in exactly the same order as their original context.

She is a meta-author who does not use her literary sources to construct comments, or illustrations, or symbolic reversals, but purely to produce her own poetry. The expression that describes her process with the most justice is in the title used for her first personal show in Rome a few years ago: A work on a work.

(Mirella Bentivoglio)