SU-MO

Drawings | Alessandro Carboni
Production | 1999
Materials | Trichlorethylene press on paper

SU-MO is a series of black-and-white drawings that explore the tension between body, image, and performance. Created through trielina transfer prints, the works combine illustrations inspired by Japanese sumo wrestling, Noh theater, and the visceral gestures of Butoh. The artist layers these references with hand-drawn marks, evoking a hybrid language between illustration, comics, and performance notation. Figures appear suspended between confrontation and ritual, weight and emptiness, action and stillness. This graphic exploration anticipates Ostun, the performative work developed by the artist in the following two years, and stands as a visual archive of bodies imagined, distorted, and transformed.

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