The successful continuation of "Sculpted Gestures", the major solo exhibition of the sculptor Jago, set up at the evocative location offered by the Ancient Theatre of Taormina until May 3, 2026.

The exhibition, organized by Aditus and Civita Sicilia, in collaboration with BAM, brings together four works by Jago — Animal Print (2012), Memory (2015), Prison (2016), and David (2024, bronze) — in a context like that of Taormina, a crossroads of civilizations and a theater of ancient memories. Jago's works are inserted as sculpted gestures in time, witnesses of a continuous expressive need that spans epochs and languages.

The first three sculptures, carved in statuary marble, revolve around the theme of the hand: a symbol of contact, creation, personal affirmation. It is through the hand that the human being leaves a mark, delves into matter, builds memory. Not just a tool, but a self-portrait: a living presence that traverses time.

In Animal Print, the hand becomes a relic: a primordial sign that recalls cave paintings, evoking an ancestral contact with the earth and our deep history. Memory presents a handprint carved in stone. The work reflects on memory and heritage, making tangible the trace of human presence as a symbol of permanence and remembrance. In Prison, the sculpted image, wrapped in the folds of marble, seems to want to emerge from a stone prison. The outlines of the human figure are barely delineated, while the limbs extend with a strong sense of tension. The gesture is everything: an urgency of existence, a symbol of the struggle to free oneself from what constrains.

The fourth sculpture is that of David, made of bronze and 181 cm tall. The work symbolically arrived at the splendid theater overlooking the sea and is currently exhibited at the top of the stands of the Ancient Theatre, after having traveled around the world aboard the Amerigo Vespucci ship. The imposing bronze work carries the weight of an epic and contemporary narrative, reinterpreting in a modern key the myth of David and Goliath to tell a different story, but always full of courage and revenge. The iconography is recognizable in the proud posture of the female figure (which recalls the famous David by Michelangelo), in the sling and the stone she holds in her hands — elements that return as recurring signs in the artist's latest masterpieces. The David project was born in 2021 with an initial clay sketch made by hand. From that initial image, several versions in clay and plaster were created, until reaching the current model, translated into bronze through the ancient technique of lost-wax casting. The final version, sculpted in Carrara marble and over 4 meters tall, will represent the milestone of Jago's artistic journey, engaging him in a real enterprise.