March, 2024

Dear Visitor,

Welcome to this virtual tour. Please take your time here. I would like to offer you a glass of sparkling water to make your visit more pleasant. The works presented here thrive on physical presence to truly come to life in the virtual space. I hope to have the opportunity to showcase them to you during a studio visit at my Berlin studio or at the next exhibition.

This line of research delves into Aura and Value, which adds complexity to their presentation here. The appearance of “value” reacts to various factors, including the presence of my name in the http address, exhibition lists, or collaborations. The artist’s name also plays a part in the fetishistic aspect of the work, as noted by Benjamin. Value defines artworks, as they are historically and traditionally interconnected with phenomenological experiences of value. The manifestation of value in an artwork encompasses various forms of value expressed within it. Value is intended as a fundamental element of the artwork, akin to its materiality or the concept behind it. In this sense, value is both tangible and perceptible, reflecting the work’s immersion in economic flows, information networks, and artistic contexts.

The website is divided into four chapters, and under “Works,” you will find an extensive PDF portfolio with descriptions.

Since 2013, my practice has revolved around the idea of the grey point as a potential starting point. Research into its modernist roots led to the discovery of iron powder, which can be found on Sardinian and Japanese beaches after stormy nights. I felt compelled to touch certain stones and objects to gauge time and attempted to sketch the horizon with the sun on the island of Thera.

Short Bio:

In 2002, Giovanni Casu left his native Sardinia and moved to Paris, where he regularly exhibited his artistic work. After a residency at Culturia.de in 2009, he relocated to Berlin, participating in both solo and group exhibitions and developing a practice grounded in procedures of verification and the testing of empirical discourse.

Between 2010 and 2012, he founded two independent spaces dedicated to artistic research, WIR Gallery and ECKE Gallery, the latter focusing particularly on the relationship between art and neuroscience.

Since 2015, his artistic practice has centered on exploring the emergence of artistic value as a social event. This research unfolds through projects conceived for specific geographical contexts, investigating the local conditions in which value appears. Among these projects are THE GREY LINE (Japan, Poland, Italy), THE ATLAS RUG (Morocco), DRAWING THE HORIZON (the island of Thera, Greece), and La fluctuation de la valeur et l’aura de la pierre noire de Chypre (Cyprus).

In parallel, he is the author of numerous texts stemming from his research, including Wax and Clay, published in Empirical Survey on a Heritage (Italy, 2014), A Melancholic Complicity in the Berlin magazine SPOONER (Berlin, 2025), A Dirty Job on Marcel Duchamp in the journal MIRÀ (NMNM – Monaco, October 2025), and The Merge of Times in the publication How Value Appears (Berlin, 2022).