Aldo Iacobelli

The Book of Questions

Photography: Grant Hancock

And how do the roots know they must climb towards the light?
110cm x 94cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Do you have room for some thorns they asked the rose bush?
70cm x 180cm, oil on canvas, 2024
And when you change the landscape Is it with your bare hands or with gloves?
210cm x 175cm, oil on canvas, 2024
How many seconds to midnight?
125cm x 250cm, oil on canvas, 2024
If the colour yellow runs out with what will we make the bread?
155cm x 95cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Why don’t they train helicopters to suck honey from the sunlight?
86cm x 128cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Yesterday, yesterday I asked my eyes when will we see each other again?
175cm x 185cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Where does the rainbow end in your soul or on the horizon?
139cm x 168cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Where is the child I was still inside me or gone?
100cm x 76cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Why do we keep erasing the truth?
170cm x 122cm, oil on canvas, 2024
why does the professor teach the geography of death?
70cm x 180cm, oil on canvas, 2024
In the sea of nothing happens, are there clothes to die in?
70cm x 180cm, oil on canvas, 2024
In which language does the rain fall over tormented cities?
103cm x 135cm, oil on canvas, 2024
is it true that in an anthill dreams are a duty?
125cm x 205cm, oil on canvas, 2024
what do they call a flower that goes from bird to bird?
70cm x 180cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Why is silence golden?
95cm x 155cm, oil on canvas, 2024
is it true that swallows are going to settle on the moon?
135cm x 93.5cm, oil on canvas, 2024
When the convict ponders the light is it the same light that shines on you?
180cm x 90cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Who assigns names and numbers to the innumerable innocent?
165cm x 137cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Why animals in zoos constitute the living monument to their own disappearance? 162cm x 52cm, oil on canvas, 2024