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Betty Danon鈥攃onceptual artist and pioneer of mail art and visual poetry鈥攊nsightfully probed the elements of writing.
Ants, Bees and Carob Pods. Emilio Isgrò鈥檚 View of the World, Mediterranean and Sicily, on Display at the Newborn MACC in Scicli
Juliet Art Magazine 26 Aug, 2025There鈥檚 an imposing invasion of ants in Scicli. But these aren鈥檛 real insects: they are the ants so dear to Emilio Isgr貌 who, in his work, has often used them as actual mobile erasures that 鈥榓ttack鈥� books and maps to redraw their meaning.
Since the Renaissance, the book in art has symbolized knowledge, with the codex鈥攂oth as an object and a concept鈥攂ecoming a metonym for scholarship and learning.