The series HIEROGLYPHS presents – reproduced in a monumental way, that is with a decorative white base equivalent in the effect to the pedestal of a statue – the minimal figurative units that compose the largest and most complex Hierocodic bas-reliefs. The series – in progress – currently includes sixty-seven small bas-reliefs (from a minimum of 9 x 10 cm to a maximum of 12 x 14 cm), each reproducing an object, a plant, an animal or a human being (with specific characteristics or having a particular job), with explicit reference to the social, economic and environmental problems of contemporary global society. Every hieroglyph therefore denounces a distortion, a wrongness, an injustice, an ambiguous or conflictual situation of our time (with very few exceptions, because there are also tributes). The name of the series refers explicitly to the homonymous series of signs belonging to the monumental writing system of Ancient Egypt and that reproduced figures equally minimal and essential arising from daily life and universal truths. Although the Hierocodic hieroglyphs never manage to represent sounds or groups of sounds, as happens instead for many of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, whose writing system includes ideographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements.
67 bas-reliefs
From 9 x 10 cm to 12 x 14 cm
2024
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Matt Baryta 308 gsm