Viruses and bacteria, not only alter our physical and relationships' world , but seem to be able to extend their action to all possible shades of shared values up to subvert them. Wars, bankruptcies, massacres and, on the other hand, rescues and security are often linked to the use of viruses that alter computer programmes and can steal information and confidential plans. Similarly, biological viruses, the cause of biblical plagues, are nowadays used, along with genetically modified bacteria, to cure diseases, destroy cancer cells or digest toxic and pollutants molecules..
Eleven large and medium-sized carpets belonging to their new collection called Virus.
Virus is the latest stop of Caturegli Formica long way to search visual archetypes of the contemporary world and turn them into the subject of precious carpets, from Pirelli tyres to New York Stock Exchange listings, from DNA sequencing to the map of African villages. The themes depicted in their carpets have to do with certain macro-knots of occidental thinking: the environment and consumption of the territory, genetics and GMOs, catastrophes, chaos theory, archival storage and the mind, the chemical essence of life..