The site-specific installation Masse non nulle, which Davide Mineo conceived for Quartz Studio, visually presents itself as a sculptural-painting mechanism that occupies the exhibition space and alters its perception and thereby conditions the experience of it. The physical and optical substance of the room-sized brass form is capable of attracting and repelling the viewer with the open intention of creating a sense of alienation. In terms of color, the metal's luminosity creates a powerful contrast with the acrylic painting on the surface within fields of irregular geometric shapes (reminiscent of certain 1950s geometric abstractions). In spatial terms, the room-sized sculptural structure, precariously leaning against the walls and seeming suspended over the hexagonal cement floor pattern, simultaneously orients and disorients those entering the space, transforming Quartz into a new environmental space.

The artist says, "Masse non nulle is a converter of intentions, a union of tangible values, gestures, images, and forms. Its mechanical presence becomes the sequential analysis of an essence, a breaking down of a whole into the parts that make it up, reducing a system to its elements. This is a simplicity that is resolved complexity. Mechanisms scan impressions, thoughts, and instincts that become observable and open to contemplation beyond the possibility of grasping or understanding their meaning.

Davide Mineo (Palermo, 1992) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo obtaining an MA and a BA in Painting. Mineo works on an idea of painting in relation to space, which brings together different attitudes, from the concentration on chromatic relationships to the exploration of the tactile properties of materials, from the reflection on the symbolic value of the gesture that stitches, that assembles, in search of a three-dimensionality which is the physical occupation of space, the bodily translation of a thought.

In 2021, together with Gabriele Massaro and Enzo Calò, he founded La Siringe, an artist-run space in Palermo. In 2022, he was selected for the Panorama project, by the Quadriennale di Roma, with a studio visit by Daniela Bigi. He has exhibited in group and solo shows: Schema Plastico, curated by Alessia Coppolino, L’Ascensore, Palermo, 2021; Strutture di moti, curated by Osservatorio Arti visive (Toni Romanelli, Daniela Bigi, Gianna Di Piazza), Cappella dell’Incoronazione – RISO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, 2015; Progetto QANAT #2, Enzo Calò and Gabriele Massaro’s idea, Studio Mascal, Palermo, 2019; Attraverso i punti #2, curated by Osservatorio Arti visive (Toni Romanelli, Daniela Bigi, Gianna Di Piazza), Palazzo Ziino, Palermo, 2017; RILEVAMENTI #1, Bruno Corà’s idea in collaboration with Daniela Bigi, Tommaso Evangelista, Aldo Iori, Federico Sardella, Marco Tonelli, Camusac Museum, Cassino, 2016.