Guido Nosari (MADRE) (b. 1984, Bergamo) is a Berlin/Milan-based artist mainly working with textile. Originally a painter and draughtsman, after receiving his degree in Fine Arts from Brera Art Academy in 2010, his artistic production underwent a two-year long period of intermission. This was broken in 2012, when he resumed his practice by sewing fabrics and weaving threads onto his canvasses. For Nosari, the act of sewing manifests an enclosing and trapping of temporalities within the non-navigable chaos of unmediated time. This process holds a ritual quality that allows him to approach the otherwise inaccessible zones of his thought. Nosari has had various solo-exhibitions in galleries including Maria Cilena (2014-15) and Casa Testori (2011) and his work has been acquired by various museum and private collections in Italy. He has been selected for the 2015 Berlin Textile Biennale and is currently pursuing an Artist Residency at MOMENTUM, Berlin, in which he researches the implications of decontextualizing his practice.

The idea that we all share an emptiness that I do not know, unnerves me. My research is focused on following this absence that escapes me every time I try to grasp it. To understand how much is common amongst human beings. In sewing I feel safe, because it creates a space and a time that is determinate. A way to follow. My thoughts are wrapped and tied, close to my dead.

The chaos grinds silences.

– Guido Nosari