One O One
The ‘O’ is not a letter but a symbol: A circle of union.
BIOGRAPHY:
Nicolas Fiedler is an Italian-Brazilian artist and designer whose practice is inspired by the forms of nature, developed in the Brazilian Atlantic jungle. This connection deeply influences his approach to painting and sculpture, characterized by a formal and material research.
Giulia Mastrangelo is an Italian artist trained at the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan (NABA) and specialized in Art History and Conservation at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her work explores contrasts and wordplay, expanding meanings through visual poetry and linguistic inquiry.
The duo Fiedler O Mastrangelo develops a performative process that translates words into symbols and ultimately into three-dimensional forms. Giulia creates chains of words or ideograms, then dictates them to Nicolas, who translates them into signs without knowing their meaning. These words are integrated into the painted work by Giulia, generating a visual language that intertwines words and signs, resulting both universal and specific.
Language, often contradictory, represents for them a potentially infinite knowledge, surpassing their native tongues (Italian and Brazilian Portuguese) to embrace a plurality of idioms. The viewer encounters a visual writing that is foreign yet stimulates a personal interpretation, while the pictorial sign evokes an immediate emotional response.
This tension between metaphor and abstract form defines their practice, which uses canvas, acrylic, paper, ink in paintings and various materials for sculpture, including Murano glass. Their sculptures originate from pictograms transformed into three-dimensional forms.
The duo received the “Artefici del Nostro Tempo” award for under 35 artists, exhibiting at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. Their works have been shown at “Murano Illumina il Mondo” at the Procuratie Vecchie in Venice’s Piazza San Marco (2024/25), at the Museo della Permanente in Milan, and at the Rossana Orlandi gallery in Milan.
They won the prize for The Best Sculpture of Premio Arte 2024 created by the italian magazine Arte.
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