Atlas

Giovanni Ozzola

Atlas gathers a selection of projects by Giovanni Ozzola and presents his practice as a continuous exploration of the concept of the map—not only in a geographic sense, but also as a symbolic, existential, and visual notion.
At the center of his research lie the ideas of the horizon and the journey, understood as tools to question the relationship between the individual and space, between the visible and the invisible.

Through photography, engraving, sculpture, and installation, Ozzola constructs a language that combines historical and scientific elements with a reflection on perception and identity.
His works often include traces—lines, writings, graffiti—that transform places into palimpsests of experience. Slate, photographic film, concrete, or bronze become sensitive surfaces. Each material is chosen for its ability to register the passage of time and light.

Atlas is inspired by the function of an atlas: an open-ended device made of routes and trajectories, capable of offering orientation while also allowing for the unexpected.
From this perspective, Ozzola’s art aligns with certain conceptual art and cartographic practices, while renewing their coordinates by emphasizing the gaze as an act of attention and the map as a narrative form.

The artwork thus becomes an archive of movements, a silent record of crossings. The landscape—often abandoned and marked by minimal human presence—turns into a threshold between personal time and collective memory.
Atlas is ultimately an invitation to consider art as a tool for reading space and constructing meaning, in a constant balance between orientation and loss.

With texts by Aurelio Andrighetto, Lorenzo Benedetti, Luigi Fassi, Giovanni Ozzola, Shen Qilan, and Stijn Huijts.

48 €