Eight small yellow figures scattered in scattered order in the forest but visible to each other make up Gianni Nieddu’s ironic work: the Pinocchio picchios are planted on the ground, their noses upwards exploring the trunk, perhaps in search of their origins. The idea stems from an exhibition of drawings inspired by Collodi’s text, in which the artist inserts intruding images among the typical vicissitudes of the puppet: pinocchio contortionist, pinocchio jumping, pinocchio meets the lady in black, almost as if to invite the spectator to a surplus of attention: to discover the infiltrator. Pinocchio picchio, among the intruders, is the latest; the only one to have gone from paper to wood. Each specimen is different from the other: in the difference between the lengths of the noses, in the fingerprints-grains, in the nodes-nodes of the wood.
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Gianni Nieddu was born in 1957 in Alghero, where he lives and works. He graduated in Law in Sassari, and approached the visual arts in the 1980s. He combines painting production with that of an installation nature. He has worked in the field of illustration in publishing, and has designed the covers of poetry and theatre books.
