Oltre | Simone Benedetto e Claudia Giraudo

According to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, “a man’s character is his daimon.” For Plato, the daimon is the force that allows human beings to rise toward the supersensible. It is a code of the soul, according to writer James Hillman, carrying within it both character and destiny, guiding each person’s deepest choices. A sort of guiding spirit or inner voice, an invisible entity that urges human beings to fulfill their true potential — and also a primordial, untamed soul, as suggested by the title of the exhibition Wild Souls, inaugurated last Saturday at Galleria Punto Sull’Arte in Varese.

Curated by Alessandra Redaelli, the exhibition presents an intense, poetic, and imaginative dialogue between the paintings of Claudia Giraudo and the sculptures of Simone Benedetto…