Giovanni Gelmi

By Lucien Rama, art critic, excerpts from "Calligraphy of Space" This Belgian plastic artist, of Italian origin, has always been called by metal. It becomes in his hands a signature, a true moment of eternity. I am directly seduced by the elegance of his universe, a feeling of lightness, natural lines emerge from it. The strength they contain is always based on recurring themes that evoke the link between earth and sky: flight, knots, verticality, union, dance or openness. It is a thorough knowledge of the profession that will occupy a fundamental place in this work made of lightness on the one hand and poetry and technicality on the other. The public cannot resist this particular brand that makes him a "verticalist" calligrapher recognizable at first glance. There is no doubt, this "cosmic" work leads to immediate adherence because it defies the laws of balance.