Jago, the algorithm and the David “IR: In the Antico theater in Taormina the power of the gesture between memory and stay – Messina – Arte.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, a intersection of civilization and the stage of old memories.
This silent miracle in the eternity of time does not know that another eye, in addition to that of the volcano, is observing it. And not with a handy look.
The beautiful golden bronze heroine, which landed for a few hours in the charming setting of the Sicilian center, could have enjoyed the Sicilian stay accepted by a warm welcome from the audience, if it had not been for the intervention (another) of the damned algorithm of a goal.
So, more than with Goliath, the body to -hand is consumed in these hours between Jago and the company of Mark Zuckerberg.

David gagged by Jago

Already in the last few days the algorithm, scaled of the breasts of David, had censored the profile of the author, Jago. This morning the artist was again obscured the profile because of the post with which he thanked the city of Taormina for the hospitality received, from which the works present showed, including the David who loved, Tronfia, directly in the highest part of the amphitheater.

Welcomed by the embrace of the classic frame, the Golden Bronze Sculpture is one of the four works set Until next May 3 2026 In the suggestive context of the Archaeological Park of Naxos Taormina, as part of the exhibition “sculpted gestures”, organized by Adusus and Civita Sicilia, in collaboration with BAM.

At the same time, his form entails the weight of an epic and contemporary story, the print of classical iconography and the tradition of the great masters, so that he is re -interpreted the spokesperson for the myth of David and Golia in a modern key to tell a different story, but always steeped in courage and revenge. Revenge that he seems to go to the algorithm.
But this morning the artist Ciociaro did not make it and, in response to another Bavaglio on social content, he decided
‘Self -censorship’ are David. As the Ansa also reports, and as can be seen in the video about the artist’s profile, armed with glasses and black hat, Jago has found his way between tourists who started rolling out the glue tape, while many – not aware of his identity – film him who threatened him to publish it on social media, as a vandal vandal. First he covered the breasts, then the belly, finally the mouth. In the fight, someone would also have relieved him, only to apologize once the identity has been clarified.
Siparietto Opzij (it is the extraordinary power of art, beauty!) Although I used to come across and veiled with glue band, the David that is big under the ruins of the old theater, as if he had always lived there in this frame.

In addition to her, similar to gestures over time, witnesses have a constant expressive need that crosses eras and languages, in dialogue with the cultural and archaeological stratification of Taormina Jago placed three other works: Animal (2012), Memory (2015), Prison (2016), Another expression of the artist’s ability, born in 1987, in the use of marble as a noble material to tackle the fundamental themes of our time.

Jago in Taormina | Photo: © Input

During the inauguration yesterday, Wednesday, September 3, in which the participation of more than a thousand spectators who pressed the Antico theater of Taormina, the video baceto of 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. A human and thinking presence. In the face of the algorithm.

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.