Francesco Pizzocchero - La ricchezza della norma

The work presented is part of the series “the wealth of the norm” and draws inspiration from the 400 tablets from the Roman era uncovered during the excavations carried out by Bloomberg for the construction of its London headquarters. This contemporary reworking of the tablets using the ancient encaustic technique (wax, pigments and graphite powder) challenges the sign as signifier and redirects attention to the material aspect of writing, understood as mere technology.

Francesco Pizzocchero is a multidisciplinary artist and a PhD student at Mozarteum University, active between Padua, Venice, Milan and Salzburg. His research investigates how power operates through aesthetic and perceptual infrastructures within what defines aesthetic capitalism. Drawing on new materialism, post-human theory and his legal background, he explores how algorithmic and normative apparatuses, often invisible, shape perception, temporality and embodiment. Through practice-based cartographies and performative mappings, his work highlights the intertwining of law, aesthetics and governance, tracing how power becomes active and materializes in human and more‑than‑human assemblages. After graduating in Law, he fully dedicated himself to artistic research and practice. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, earning with honors the bachelor's and master's degrees in Decoration (Atelier B). He has exhibited in numerous group shows in Italy and abroad, and his practice continues to expand through collaborations and interdisciplinary experimentation located at the intersection of art, theory and technological inquiry.