It is with profound sadness that we announce that the master Guido Dettoni della Grazia passed away during the night.

His passing represents a great loss for all who had the privilege of knowing him, working by his side, and sharing in his creative universe. Throughout his career, Guido Dettoni della Grazia distinguished himself not only through his talent and artistic vision, but also through his extraordinary humanity, his generosity, and his remarkable ability to inspire everyone around him.

His thought, his work, and the mark he has left on so many projects and in so many people will continue to live on in the legacy he entrusts to us.

 

We wish to share this news with all the friends, followers of his work, and collaborators who over the years have been part of his professional and human journey.

 

In the coming days, we will share information about any gatherings or spaces of remembrance that may be organized to honor his memory.

 

The funeral service will take place on Sunday, March 8, at 1:00 PM at the Sant Gervasi Funeral Home in Barcelona (Spain).

TACTILIA

The TACITILIA works are an aesthetic and sensorial proposal by Guido Dettoni who called them this way in 2021 despite them having previously been present in his artistic practice. The unpublished work of reference is HANDS JOURNEY from 2003.


TACTILIA‘s works are sculptures to look at and touch, even with your eyes closed. Sculpted or modeled in different materials, they are made up of volumes or surfaces engraved with imprints, grooves, and other reliefs, created by the author to provoke an experience that generates interior visions and internalization. This is how the synchronism between imagining and internalizing occurs, which is the dynamics of the experience. Imagining: seeing with your hands, feeling, and revealing inner visions. Internalize: touching with the eyes, looking, making a narrative emerge.

In the TACTILIA works, tactile vision is possible by exploring them, “travelling” through them with the fingers and palm. It’s not just a matter of containing its volume within hands to perceive its shape in its entirety, but of perceiving its surface, consistency, and temperature with the hands in movement.


TACTILIA is also a collective practice.

TACTILIA SCULPTURES