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Compositions

Emanuel Gargano

After studying at ISIA (Institute of Higher Education in the Artistic Industries) in Urbino, Emanuel Gargano moved to London, collaborating with international designers and exploring the relationship between light and space. Today, he divides his time between New York and his studio in Assisi, bringing a poetic and rigorous vision to design.

InOpera entrusted Gargano with the Compositions collection, where light does not merely illuminate, but defines and generates the very shape of objects. His Compositions create islands of light that interact with each other, attracting, repelling, and merging, transforming iconography and layout into star maps and offering a unique sensory experience, in which perception, matter, and light merge into a single composition.

Emanuel Gargano [triennale]

The boundary and the aura

In Gargano's Compositions, this boundary is ungovernable: the objects project light from within, which spreads into the surrounding darkness. The form is therefore composed of a peiron and its aura: the boundary that embraces the body is not, as in Aristotle’s view, immobile. The works are not illuminated by the patterns of an external light source; they themselves become masses of light that seem to expand the space rather than be contained by it.

Septenaries

The numbering of the Compositions follows an arithmetic progression based on the number 7. Seven are the planets. Seven are the aspects of what we see: body, distance, shape, size, color, movement, and rest. Seven are the types of movement: up, down, forward, backward, right, left, and circular. Plato composed the soul out of seven numbers. Seven are the vowels, seven the alterations of the voice, seven are the ages of life: child, boy, adolescent, youth, man, elder, old man. (Iamblichus, The Theology of Arithmetic). For Emanuel Gargano, the essential meaning of seven concerns the light—the aura—that expands the perimeter of the object of the Compositions.