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Do waves travel in order to acquire knowledge? (1). For sure, they flow restlessly in Amalia Del Ponte’s art, in order to get acquainted with it, itself being a wave and a place of creation. From there, they depart, deeply changed, towards infinite viewing experiences. It’s been half a century since she first engaged materials and energies as lovers keen on their exchange: no sculpture has done more surfing than hers. The continuous study of archetypes, chance, sounds and the laws of physics, aimed at enriching her linguistic projects, has always been explicit, open to dialogue; it has never run aground with time, nor has it turned into sheer ideology or self-indulging production. Talking about art and science might be too much, while moving from wave to wave might be too little: creation passes through stages and stratifications.

Tommaso Trini Castelli

(1) We don’t know. And the question is not meant to humanize nature. As a matter of fact, in the immaterial dimension of art we are talking about, the many languages of waves are the base of such motion, as is typical of Amalia Del Ponte: creating in order to acquire knowledge. Light has a kind of primacy and a secret: its waves, the fastest ones, are also the loneliest, in the unalterable dimension of time.