MonoLogo
SERIES: Installations · Sculptures · Graphics · Photography · Painting
Year: 2003 – ongoing
"MonoLogo" is a visual investigation into the identity and contradictions of the Campania region, starting from its morphology—an outline reminiscent of a gun—elevated here to iconic symbol. Active since 2003, the project unfolds through an interdisciplinary practice in which installations, sculptures, paintings, and photographs construct a critical, ironic, and multi-layered narrative.
The recurring gun-logo embodies a state of permanent emergency, but also a form of resistance—constantly questioning the boundaries between reality and representation, belonging and stereotype.
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L' Ottimista
2007 – 118 x 118 x 5 cm
PVC bags and acrylic on canvas and wood
L'Ottimista ( The Optimist ) portrays Campania as a place where a hidden “positive” element (represented by trash bags) coexists with a more visible and universally recognized “negative”: the gun icon.
The optimist is someone who always sees the “bright side of things,” even when the situation appears hopelessly compromised.
Wanted
2009 – 25 x 32 x 6 cm
Collage: paper and acrylic on the book Gomorra
The Camorra threatens to “shut the eyes” of anyone who opposes it.
In the war between good and evil, who is the real wanted person?!
Where are the civilians?
In the war between good and evil, who is the real wanted person?!
Where are the civilians?
Dove sono i civili? (Where Are the Civilians?)
2009 – 100 x 100 x 8 cm
Installation: acrylic and plastic toy soldiers on shaped MDF
An express parcel, destination: Campania, Italy. Inside, a model—a neat mock-up of an imposed top-down solution, where control takes shape even before conflict.
Soldiers mark the borders, patrol the area, yet remain suspended, unsure of the enemy, the mission, or the meaning. And something crucial is missing: the absence of civilians—as population, as consciousness, as potential—is the deepest wound crossing the scene.
Bufala DOC
2009 – 52 x 25 x 40 cm
Mixed media sculpture: synthetic grass, paper, plastic, synthetic paste, wood, acrylic, and varnish in plexiglass case
A title that plays on words and symbolic contradiction: the bufala (water buffalo), a Campanian icon, but also a certified lie, a fake truth, an institutionalized hoax.
This work questions authenticity as both cultural and commercial construct, reflecting on how identity symbols—food, territory, nature—are manipulated, embellished, staged.
Set against a backdrop of agro-food excellence and environmental devastation—from the Terra dei Fuochi crisis to the collective erasure of risk—it becomes an ironic yet sharp critique of what we call excellence, what we choose to see, and what we prefer to ignore.
Il segreto di Pulcinella (Pulcinella’s Secret)
2009 – 50 x 50 x 10 cm
Mixed media sculpture: varnish, oil, acrylic, toy gun on canvas and wood
The title refers to a well-known Italian idiom—Pulcinella’s secret—something everyone knows but no one dares to say.
The work reflects on a region where cultural identity is inextricably linked to a criminal narrative, and where the mask—symbol of ambiguity and survival—becomes a collective, contradictory body.
Black and white, visible and invisible, folklore and violence: a geography of ambivalence takes shape through the recurring MonoLogo motif—the Campania/gun icon—a suspended symbol between representation and fate.
Blob
Photographic elaboration
2009 – 52 x 52 x 2 cm / Digital print on photographic paper
2011 – 50 x 50 cm / Direct print on plexiglass
A huge, shapeless mass absorbs and drags along everything in its path—Campania included.
Rilievo ( Relief )
2020 – 100 x 100 x 5 cm
Sculpture/installation: acrylic, papier-mâché, resin, polyurethane
Inspired by the stylized geographical form of Campania, the icon-logo at the origin of the MonoLogo series becomes volumetric in these wall-mounted sculptural installations. First produced in 2009, they continue to evolve in format, color, and material.
Emergency
2009 – 60 x 62 x 7 cm
Installation: ink on envelopes
The obsessive repetition of the word Emergency becomes a decorative swirl over each envelope. The sense of urgency is clear—but little else. Only by piecing together “many letters” does the location in need of saving begin to emerge.
Screening
2009 – 75 x 75 cm
Direct print on plexiglass
(Limited edition works, each one unique in size; available also in backlit versions)
Direct print on plexiglass
(Limited edition works, each one unique in size; available also in backlit versions)
A microscopic analysis of Campania and its surrounding areas: sea, hinterland, neighboring regions. Everywhere, clusters of microorganisms intermingle with varied symbols—cardinal points, directional arrows, revolver barrels, flowers.
Question marks define the “density” of Campania.
Pagine Gialle – Lavoro (Yellow Pages – Work)
2007 – Varnish on Yellow Pages directory
The word Work—specified as “Naples and surrounding municipalities”—is the interpretive key. The “logo,” a reinterpretation of Campania’s morphology, clearly and unequivocally identifies not just the geographic area, but also the “forces” that influence labor in the region.
Buona Fortuna (Good Luck)
2009 – 8 x 5 cm
Print and collage on “Unico Campania” ticket
Print and collage on “Unico Campania” ticket
Rosso (Red)
2009 – 100 x 107 cm
Mixed media (wax pastels, oil, acrylic, varnish) on scenic design paper and wood
Mixed media (wax pastels, oil, acrylic, varnish) on scenic design paper and wood
Senza risposta (No Answer)
2009 – 100 x 107 cm
Mixed media (oil, acrylic, varnish) on scenic design paper and wood
Mixed media (oil, acrylic, varnish) on scenic design paper and wood
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Speculare (Mirrored)
2011 – 100 x 30 cm
Pastels on political maps of Campania and Lombardy with printed overlay
Pastels on political maps of Campania and Lombardy with printed overlay
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Senza titolo (Untitled)
2011 – 29.7 x 42 cm
Digital print on Tintoretto paper
Digital print on Tintoretto paper