Giandomenico Soranno - Metamorphosis

The photos illustrate a proposed installation with multiple elements enlarged to a 15:1 scale. Metamorphosis presents itself to the gaze as an organism suspended between birth and dissolution. Wax, a fragile and changeable material, becomes a living body, folded into loops and openings that seem to breathe. The work does not represent, but evokes: it speaks of the continuous becoming of life. Metamorfosi presents itself as an organism suspended in an indefinite time, the fragile and dizzying time that separates birth from dissolution. Wax, a material both humble and mysterious, with its ability to melt and solidify, becomes living skin, a sensitive surface that retains the warmth of the gesture and the memory of transformation. The work does not simply occupy space: it traverses it, bends it, makes it porous, as if the air itself participated in its slow transformation. The forms tangle in a tangle that defies geometry and control, evoking submerged roots seeking nourishment, coral branches breathing in the abyssal silence, or fragments of an internal anatomy that prefers to remain incomplete, constantly redefining itself. There is no clear beginning or end: the work thrives on thresholds, passages, and openings that seem to open and close like diaphragms. Every curve holds the time of an irreversible change. What seemed sealed opens up, what breaks doesn't die, but is reborn in an unexpected form. Fracture becomes possibility, erosion becomes writing, loss becomes metamorphosis. Sculpture doesn't represent transformation: it embodies it, it stages it as a real process, an existential condition. In this continuous flow, the gaze finds no definitive foothold, because the work itself is designed to remain unstable, like a thought that cannot be fixed. Metamorfosi thus becomes a material reflection on becoming: an invitation to recognize the dynamic nature of things, the necessity of change as a form of resistance, the paradox of survival precisely through the capacity to disintegrate and recompose. Biography: Giandomenico Soranno studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, where he earned a degree in sculpture with honors. His research stems from a constant dialogue with matter, understood as a meeting point between gesture, thought, and memory. In Soranno's work, matter is never a mere medium: it is an interlocutor. He often identifies with materials such as wood, clay, and plaster, used for their immediacy and ability to convey the artist's gesture, while also knowing how to find the right tools in stone and resin when the project requires it. This preference is not a technical imposition, but a choice born from a desire to establish relationships: wood can evoke natural rhythms and the seascape; clay and plaster allow for rapid experimentation and variation; stone demands restraint and silence. Rather than accumulating materials, Soranno connects them, seeking correspondences in weight, surface, and memory, and brings them into dialogue until a shared meaning emerges. His method is one of both study and workshop. Projects emerge from sketches, small casts, and material tests; many of these solutions are then developed in series or in modules that respond to one another. It is common for multiple elements to construct a single narrative: panels that complement one another, groups of sculptures conceived as sections of the same idea. His interest lies in the tensions between continuity and discontinuity, between what is immediately apparent and what remains suspended, awaiting recognition. In 2025, Soranno won the Strega BPER Art Prize with Essenza, a work created in dialogue with the competition's theme. The work reflects on the value of culture as a human bond and the power of transmission between people and generations. Three hands clasped intensely become an image of encounter and sharing, giving rise to a dark flow reminiscent of ink: a symbol of knowledge spreading, like a vital fluid that passes through matter and unites. This visual and conceptual synthesis reveals the profound meaning of his research, always oriented towards transforming matter into relationship, gesture into language. Alongside his studies, Soranno consistently pursues his artistic career, successfully balancing his work with research and the production of his works. He is driven by a profound motivation, linked to the desire to continue studying and to pass on his experience in the field of sculpture in the future. Soranno regularly participates in exhibitions and competitions, including Art Night Venezia, the Mestre Prize, and the Nocivelli Prize. He studies and works consistently, pursuing a research that intertwines matter and thought, gesture and meaning, in an effort to make sculpture a relational language.

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