Connection / Dream-Merda Wall mirror - - Ø 70 cm / Screen-printed glass by Seletti Black

The artist Nico Vascellari was born in 1976 in Vittorio Veneto, Italy, where he lives and works. He mixes his experiences as a punk musician and his extensive research to provoke reflection and offer an interactive, multiple, immersive form of contemporary art. Oscillating between installation, sculpture and performance, his experimental work is inspired by a vast repertoire of iconographic and iconological elements drawn from history, science, art, anthropology and popular tradition. For Seletti, contemporary artist Nico Vascellari has created a series of screen-printed mirrors with the theme of games and, more precisely, the anagram, which involves switching around the letters of a starting word to obtain a new one which takes on another meaning once the letters are reversed. Since Antiquity, the anagram has come down the centuries, drawing the attention of men of letters, linguists, poets, as well as alchemists and lovers of mysteries of all kinds, interested in the issue of the sacred in language and the hidden meaning of words. On the glass of the Connection mirrors are printed anagrams that explore certain aspects of Nico Vascellari's work, which are opposition, contrast, play and the double. Nico Vascellari had fun resonating the meanings of the words ''Dream'' and ''Merda'', as well as the words ''Resist'' and ''Sister''. The result? Fun mirrors where everything collides, establishing particularly symbolic correspondences between words. The new words obtained resonate like an echo of the original words. Subversive and provocative, the association of the words "Dream" and "Merda" can be linked to the Punk ideology so dear to Nico Vascellari and his "No future" close to nihilism. The semantic link between the words ''Resist'' and ''Sister'' sounds like an encouragement to the struggle of women campaigning for gender equality and rights. The idea of ​​duplicity, of double dealing is reinforced by the very object on which the anagrams take place: mirrors whose reflections duplicate reality, multiplying points of view in the same plane. The result is a playful escape from reality, subverting everyday objects. Nico Vascellari has enjoyed numerous personal exhibitions, at the Macro (Rome), the Marina Abramovic Institute (San Francisco) and the Museion (Bolzano). His work has also been shown at the Tate Modern in London and at the 52nd Venice Biennale.