Ezio Gribaudo. My Pinocchio

Pinocchio has been a leitmotif in Ezio Gribau- do's artwork over the decades. Since the 1950s, the artist has incorporated Carlo Collodi's nov- el The Adventures of Pinocchio into his works, with frequent thematic references that have evolved along with the artist's own develop- ment of the main character. This volume cap- tures the universality of Pinocchio, which Grib- audo proposes here in the shape of a silhouette that evokes the collective myth of childhood.
In so doing, Gribaudo illustrates Collodi's puppet as a representation mediated by the relationship between text and image, a subject transferred from being a literary instrument to an artistic one, spawning symbols and icons.