NEOCHROME is pleased to present ASSENZA, the first solo show at the gallery by Magdalo Mussio.

The signs can be letters or rhymes, but also utterly a-semantic marks, which can be charged with a more mysterious meaning precisely due to this nature: that which each viewer wants to assign, to make each 'visual poem' – as should always happen for all works of art – become the encounter between the imagination of the artist and that of the viewer.

- Gillo Dorfles, Magdalo Mussio. Il filo d’un discorso pittorico, 2004

Magdalo Mussio (Volterra, 1925 – Civitanova Marche, 12 August 2006) was one of the leading exponents of Visual Poetry. His works have been shown at the Finch Museum in New York ("Italian Visual Poetry"), Centre Pompidou in Paris ("Identité italienne: l’art en Italie depuis 1959"), and recently Museo Civico Villa Colloredo Mels of Recanati has held a prestigious retrospective entitled "Marginalia".

Curated by Marco Marrone