SONOGRAMMA
Sonogramma is the artist studio of Davide Boosta Dileo, a space dedicated to exploring the art of sound and its visual grammar. Here, sound manifests in forms that transcend conventional definitions, blurring the boundaries between music and image.
For Dileo, art is a total experience that transcends traditional taxonomic categories, rejecting rigid distinctions between disciplines. Sonogramma perfectly embodies this spirit, a place where the mercurial artistic mood comes to life through a skillful play of shadows, stage lights, and moments of creative ozium. Here, sound, even in its sighed and suspended silence, becomes a palpable and almost tangible presence.
Act I: Octaves is the inaugural exhibition of the studio (October 12, 2024) and represents a true artistic catharsis. The exhibition transforms into a small stage that highlights the most personal—and therefore most precious—aspect of Dileo’s work. The artist, whose practice is heavily influenced by Fluxus art experimentation, evokes celebrated works like Babel by Cildo Meireles (2001) and reveals himself as a keen observer and explorer of human emotions and their historical substratum. Organically, the exhibition also pays homage to the concept of “technique,” a fundamental element in Dileo’s practice that ranges from the pure sound of the piano to electronic synthesizers.
This technical exploration is perhaps Freudianly linked to Dileo’s hometown, Turin, with its rich past and present, from the Olivetti machines to contemporary developments in artificial intelligence. The technological evolution that Dileo sometimes relies on becomes a tool for reflection and comparison, exploring the profound meaning of artistic expression and the creative process. This ongoing dialogue between past and future unfolds through reverberations, pauses, and reprises, intertwining the history of technique with the emotional and artistic dimensions that characterize Dileo’s work.
Octaves, 2024
A photograph captures the intimate and almost hallucinogenic bond between a musician and their instruments. The play of light and shadow transforms the image into a gothic reverberation, an artwork that reflects the movement and energy of music in a visual form.
Tv_Orchestra, 2024
This installation consists of 16 five-inch televisions, each reproducing different loop tapes. This work creates a mise en abyme where the instrument plays itself, exploring the cyclical and self-reflective relationship between art and its performance.
Je T(a)ime, 2024
In Je T(a)ime, the focus shifts to the asynchronous nature of love. The piece consists of eight mechanical alarm clocks, whose ticking symbolizes romantic feelings. The unison of seconds drifts in and out of phase randomly, reflecting the unpredictable dynamics of love, never perfectly synchronized except for brief moments.
Tools Part 2, 2024
A series of small diptychs, almost sacred in their intimate dimension, explore the a-rhythmic cadence of haiku, the traditional Japanese poetry composed of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5. Through long photographic exposures, musical instruments are transformed, their forms deconstructed into images resembling Rorschach tests, leaving the viewer with an instinctive interpretation of what they see.
Partiture
This work explores the art of composition through the artist’s vision. An old Olivetti Syntesis filing cabinet becomes the container for eight scores, written and drawn on various materials with different techniques. The cabinet itself, once part of the Publifoto Archive and now owned by Intesa Sanpaolo, held a collection of 7 million photographs documenting Italian news, politics, culture, and society from the 1930s to the 1990s, providing a rich historical snapshot of the country.
Sonogramma is open on appointment (info@davidedileo.com).
Address: Vicolo della Consolata 4, 10122, Turin, IT.