Jago in the Antico Theater of Taormina: the power of the gesture between sustainability and memory – Messina – Arte.it.it

Messina – from the top of the stands of the old theater of Taormina, back from a symbolic journey around the world on board the American Vespucci, The David By Jacopo Cardillo, aka Jago, with his proud attitude, the haughty gaze, the catapult, a stone tight in his hands, under the watchful eye of Etna, the sea, intersections of civilization and the scene of old memories. Silent miracle in the eternity of time.
The beautiful golden bronze heroine that was landed by a few in the charming setting of the Sicilian center, could have enjoyed the stay in the shadow of the volcano, welcomed by a warm reception of the public, if it had not been for the intervention (another) of the damned algorithm of a destination.

Already in the last few days the algorithm, scaled of the sculpture breasts, had censored the profile of the author, Jago. This morning the artist was hid again the profile because of the post with which he thanked the city for the hospitality received
The works that are present in the vicinity of the amphitheater, including the David who ran, Tronfia, exactly in the highest part of the amphitheater.

Welcome to the embrace of the classic frame, the Golden Bronze Sculpture brings the weight of an epic and contemporary story at the same time, the print of the classical iconography and the tradition of the great masters, being a spokesperson for the myth of David and Goliath in a modern key. Revenge that he seems to go to the algorithm.
In response to another Bavaglio to social content, the Ciociaro artist did not remain helpless this morning, but decided
‘Self -censorship’ are David. As the Ansa also reports, armed with glasses and hats
Black, Jago stabbed the glue tire among tourists, while many – not aware of his
Identity – they filmed it by threatening it
Publish the thing on social media, given it as a vandal. Someone would have released him too, except
Hold his hand as soon as the identity and the reason has been clarified
of the gesture.
To end under the tagliola of the meta algorithm, is today
was a post with which Jago thanked the city for hospitality
and showed the works that are present close to the amphitheater, including,
David. They are disputed again
explicit or sexual content, despite the lines
Guide even allow the publication of artworks naked

Together with her, similar to gestures in the course of time, witnesses of a continuous expressive necessity that crosses eras and languages, countries in Sicily, in dialogue with the cultural and archaeological stratification of Taormina, three other works by the Ciociagunstenaar: Animal (2012), Memory (2015), Prison (2016).
You can admire them Until next May 3 In the suggestive context of the Archaeological Park of Naxos Taormina, where the exhibition “sculpted gestures”, organized by Adusus and Civita Sicilia, in collaboration with BAM, will emphasize all the competence of the artist, born in 1987, in the use of Marble’s Time to treat the fundamental of our time.

Jago in Taormina | Photo: © Input

To welcome the sculptor, during the inauguration yesterday, Wednesday 3 September, more than a thousand spectators who printed the old theater of Taormina where the video of the David was projected on board the Amerigo Vespucci School Ship.
With the exception of David, the three sculptures that can be seen, cut in stately marble, turn around the theme. Contact symbol, creation, personal confirmation, sinking in the subject, building memory, hand enables people to leave a stamp. And for the artist – the first to send a marble sculpture at the International Space Station in 2019 on the occasion of the Beyond Mission of the Asa (European Space Agency) – the hand is a living creature that travels time. When in Animal It becomes the finding of, primordial sign that the rock paintings reminds, recalling an ancestral contact with the earth and our deep history, in Memory The print of a hand cut in the stone opens a reflection on memory and on the inheritance, making the trail of human presence tangible as a symbol of sustainability and memory.

Jago’s David in Taormina | Photo: © Input

In Prison The sculpted image, wrapped in marble folds, seems to want to free yourself from a stone prison. The contours of the human figure have just been sketched, while the limbs extend with a strong sense of tension. The gesture is all: urgency of existence, a symbol of the struggle to get rid of what he forces.
And here is David (a reference to the famous masterpiece of Michelangelo). The project was born in 2021 with a first -handed clay sketch. From that first image, various clay and plaster versions, to the current model, were translated into bronze by the old technique of lost wax merger. The final version, cut in Carrara Marble and more than 4 meters high, will represent the milestone of the artistic path of Jago and involve it in a real achievement.