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march 11, 2022 - Arthemisia

Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome is hosting JAGO’s first major exhibition from March 12th to July 3rd, 2022.


Jago sculpts like Michelangelo and is a rock star. 

Adored by the general public, a legend for young #people and a social phenomenon just like a rock star, #jago is the symbol of the contemporary artist who combines creative talent with communication skills. 

Arthemisia has staged his first retrospective, displaying all the works done to date. 

Giving a fabulous ending to a season full of energy devoted to contemporary art, for the first time ever, #arthemisia also proposes the original reconstruction of an artist's studio: during the exhibition, #jago will be working on a new sculpture in the rooms of Palazzo Bonaparte. 

“…I plan my future. I take on demanding relationships to transform in idea into tangible reality far from possible regrets...” 

Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome will be hosting the first major exhibition devoted to JAGO from March 12th to July 3rd, 2022. 

Born in 1987, #jacopocardillo, known pseudonymously as #jago, is a skilful sculptor with roots in some of the exemplary techniques of our past, and is universally known as "The Social Artist" for his innate communication skills and the great success he has achieved on social media. 

A sure talent in using means of communication, #jago directly reaches the hearts of the public who love him – or rather, adore him. Comparable in this sense to a rock star, he transmits his love for art to young #people: the live streaming and the photo and video documentation – with which he captivates his audience on the web – relate the inventive process of each work, and the shared path allows his followers to take direct part in the individual phase of production. 

In his works, he also uses tragic elements in a constant play of references, with a vision always aimed at the issues of the present, provocatively triggering the viewers’ reflection on the status of our times. 

At Palazzo Bonaparte, JAGO’s genius is documented for the first time in an exhibition that brings together a series of the works he has created up to now, from sculpted river stones (from Memoria di Sé to Excalibur), on up to the most recent monumental sculptures (such as Veiled Son and Pietà), passing by way of ones that, while less recent, are more directly creations of the media, such as the portrait of Pope Benedict XVI (Habemus Hominem). 

Curated by Maria Teresa Benedetti, the exhibition connotes the key elements of a work that is continuously on-going and capable of constant enrichment. 

“…My sculpture is living language. Using a language does not mean copying it. I identify with a language and I adopt it: I feel the need to make a connection with what I see, with no spirit of emulation. I am myself.” 

The first witness to this is the sculpture work done on large stones gathered from a riverbed on the slopes of the Apuan Alps and patiently sculpted with the desire to tell a personal and human story. Piety and violence are intertwined in the artist's gaze. The shocking nudity of the Pope Emeritus is surprising, while the image of a Venus (2018), devoid of any youthful beauty, upsets and prompts us to reflect upon the symbolic value of beauty. On the 

other hand, a dramatic present day appears threatening with the presence of the Veiled Son (2019), a symbolic icon of timeless tragedies, connected to which is intense meditation on pain, enclosed within the desolate greatness of the Pietà (2021). Even earlier, the artist had proposed a theme free from any relationship with history, in replicating the sequences of the heartbeat in Apparato Circolatorio (2017). 

Palazzo Bonaparte will also be transformed into an artist's studio: during the months of the exhibition, #jago will be working on his next impressive sculpture inside the exhibition venue. 

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