In what I have experienced
There are already things to take care of.
33 pieces of paper dedicated to the Divine Comedy.

When I travel from book to book, I always end up with Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy". Then I feel disheartened to realize that I have not yet fully come to grips with it. After repeated challenges and setbacks, the road to reading "Divine Comedy" seems like an enormous journey.

One of the reasons why Dante's appearance is said to be the beginning of the Renaissance is that he conveyed the importance of "direct knowledge" rather than "indirect knowledge." Just as his close friend Giotto (1267-1337) learned everything from nature, Dante taught that there are things that we should value in our own experiences.

In honor of the Divine Comedy, which consists of 33 songs in each part,I have woven 33 pieces of paper here.
I would be delighted if these pieces of paper could be likened to each individual psalm.

Someday in ItalianI would like to experience the beauty of Terza Rima, but first I would like to try it again in Japanese.


Text by Rivotorto Pieces


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<References>
◇ DanteDivine Comedy Hell: Songs 1 to 17” (Kawade Shobo Shinsha)
◇ Midori WakakuwaFlorence” (Kodansha)

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Fragile Exhibition

Passage of Paper Textile
Fragments of Paper
2023.4.1 - 2023.4.30
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Rivotorto Pieces will hold their first solo exhibition, "Passage of Paper Textile". The works are named after the two artists' ancestors whom they have admired since childhood. They feature people from all over the world, past and present, such as saints, picture book authors, and architects. Saint Francis of Assisi, Atsuko Suga, Leo Lionni and Tokujiro Kojima, Bernard of Chartres, Tintoretto, Dante, Giotto, Seiichi Shirai, Sotatsu Tawaraya, William Morris, Édouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Montaner, Michelangelo, Hermes, Diotima, Barbara Sansoni, Hergé, Hiroshi Yoshino, Rousseau, Frederick II, Simone Weil, Aldo Manuzio, Picasso, and the man from the Masdazil Cave. The messages that accompany each work, detailing encounters with each person, are also quite interesting.