The image of the web is an ample and ancient figure: it even manages to become a metaphor of expression...and not only that, because as well as being an efficacious image it is also the real structure of life, from the minutest organisms to the most complex societies, keeping everything together.

Ductile, flexible, of infinite shapes yet always recognizable as a “web”, this shape is everywhere, within us and outside us. Davide Nido would appear to have chosen precisely this double register of “within” and “without” with this exhibition, unifying it within the symbol of the “web”. In fact we find ourselves face to face with works that on the one hand specifically recall an organic web of pulsating arteries, we know not whether they are in the body of an ant or a human being, and on the other bring to mind the historical result of the sedimentation of society: in certain works, in fact, Nido compares maps of certain cities that have a special meaning for him - in this particular case Milan and Los Angeles – so as to restore via this absolutely conventional representation not only the discovery – not his, moreover – of the network for a complex organism like a city but also to underline the complexity and diversity of human relationships, visible even in the conventionality of a city map.

The artist removes all topographical signs, he takes pleasure in the beauty and brilliance of the colors he uses, everything appears to lead to a felicity and ease of composition, yet we can “see” – knowing full well we are dealing with a city – the mingling of personal stories behind a yellow, a red, a blue, or round a corner, or just behind the unification of fine lines which we visualize as being populated by sentiments and not just inhabited by a shiny silicone white. Furthermore the comparison between different webs, that is between different cities, establishes a sort of sedimented, temporal, historical vision for us to look at: in that shape, in that web which is always different and always the same we search for cultural, psychological and geopolitical differences and we recognize them in the differences between one design and another, in the intersections, in the order and disorder in which we imagine that organism matured in, which is nothing more than our social organism.

The web, then, is even more than a metaphor: it is the analogical image of life. Always the same, always different.