Pasquale Scognamiglio

Body
of Work

Artistic cycles developed through memory, myth, Mediterranean identity, spirituality, movement and experimentation. Different languages and techniques become fragments of the same visual research.

The Research

A Body of Work is not simply a group of images, but a research that develops through time.

These visual cycles bring together works created in different periods and through different techniques. What connects them is the persistence of an idea: myth, memory, sacred imagery, Mediterranean culture, identity, movement and transformation. Some cycles are complete; others continue to evolve as part of an ongoing artistic process.

Body of Work 01

Birth and Rebirth of Myth

Myth · Archetype · Icarus · Transformation

Myth is not treated as a distant story but as a living language capable of describing contemporary human experience. Ancient heroes, symbolic figures and archetypal narratives return as metaphors for ambition, desire, fall, transformation and rebirth. Icarus becomes one of the central figures of this research, suspended between the desire to rise and the awareness of human limits.

Body of Work 02

The Ampoules

San Gennaro · Blood · Ritual · Naples

A visual research born around one of the most powerful symbols of Naples: the ampoule containing the blood of San Gennaro. Repeated, transformed and reinterpreted, the ampoule becomes more than a devotional object. It becomes an archetype of waiting, faith, collective identity, miracle and the intimate relationship between Naples and the sacred.

Body of Work 03

Tales of the Sea

Mediterranean · Sea · Memory · Fragments

The sea is imagined as an immense archive. Stories, fragments, sirens, boats, bodies and memories emerge from a Mediterranean landscape in which historical reality and imagination overlap. Developed in dialogue with the Museo del Mare di Napoli and the project Racconti del mare, the cycle transforms maritime memory into a visual narrative.

Body of Work 04

Alchemy of Self

Journey · Spirit · Solitude · Transformation

An inner journey in which the image becomes a map of personal transformation. Solitude, angels, thresholds, labyrinths and symbolic presences describe an initiatory path through doubt, consciousness and rebirth. The artwork becomes a place in which the visible world encounters a more intimate and spiritual dimension.

Body of Work 05

SUEÑO

Painting · Tango · Gesture · Movement

Painting leaves the studio and becomes an event. In SUEÑO, the painted gesture enters into dialogue with Argentine tango, rhythm and the movement of the body. The act of painting is no longer only the production of an image but a temporary encounter between space, music, movement and visual sign.

Body of Work 06

Terronia · A’ Vita

South · Identity · Corno · Sacred & Popular

Southern Italian identity becomes a visual alphabet. The Neapolitan horn, San Gennaro, the Sacred Heart, flames and popular devotional imagery coexist within a language in which sacred and profane continually overlap. A’ Vita, with its flame formed by red horns, becomes an emblem of vitality, protection and belonging.

Body of Work 07

Symbols & Myths of Naples

Partenope · Symbols · Memory · Naples

Naples is interpreted as a city made of overlapping narratives. Partenope, popular symbols, superstition, sacred imagery and fragments of daily life form a visual mythology in which history and legend are inseparable. Familiar signs are removed from their ordinary context and transformed into contemporary emblems of identity.

Body of Work 08

Watercolours on Vintage Paper

Watercolour · Old Books · Memory · Time

Old pages become both support and part of the image. Watercolour interacts with printed words, traces of time and the material memory of books. Sirens, trees, fruits, animals and symbolic objects emerge above texts that belonged to another life, creating a dialogue between past and present, image and language, memory and transformation.

Body of Work 09

Tango

Body · Embrace · Rhythm · Tension · Movement

Work in Progress

An ongoing visual research dedicated to Argentine tango and to the relationship between two bodies in movement. The embrace, balance, tension, waiting and improvisation become elements of a pictorial language in which the figure is never completely static. Tango is investigated not only as dance, but as an emotional and spatial condition: a continuous negotiation between proximity and distance, control and freedom, silence and rhythm.

Different images, different moments, different techniques. What remains constant is the need to transform memory, experience and movement into a sign.

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