Fiedler O Mastrangelo
 

The "O" marks a closed circuit in which sign and word are forced into continuous translation, producing form.

Fiedler O Mastrangelo develop a practice in which language is not treated as a vehicle of communication, but as a generative force subjected to constraint.

Each work originates from a word selected through a process of linguistic inquiry. This phase remains internal, yet determines the conditions under which the work can occur. Once spoken, the word is stripped of its stabilizing function and approached as a sonic event, detached from its conventional use.

The translation into form is not illustrative. It is produced through a set of imposed limitations that interrupt intention and prevent direct correspondence between word and image. The resulting mark is not a representation, but the residue of an action governed by partial loss of control.

The work unfolds within the interval between articulation and reception. A word carries a latent history; the body receives it without fully mastering that history. The result is a displacement: meaning is neither transmitted nor fixed, but deferred.

This process is structured through dual authorship. One position initiates the word, the other transforms it under constraint, and the first intervenes again, altering or misaligning the result. The work is therefore not the product of a unified intention, but of successive interruptions. It exists in the instability generated by this exchange.
Word and mark do not resolve into equivalence. Each maintains its autonomy, producing a gap that constitutes the work itself. Meaning is not located in either element, but in the tension between them.
Color operates as a field rather than a ground. It defines a spatial and perceptual threshold in which the passage from language to form becomes visible. The surface does not support the image; it conditions its emergence.

This process does not remain confined to the canvas. Pictograms and words that accumulate on the painted surface are periodically extracted and translated into three-dimensional form — cast in bronze, shaped in glass, constructed in space. The sculpture is not an illustration of the painting, nor its continuation. It is another act of translation: the same displacement that occurs between word and mark occurs again between surface and volume. Each passage introduces a further loss, a further shift. The work migrates through materials without arriving.

Fiedler O Mastrangelo do not seek to represent language, but to expose the conditions under which it fractures when subjected to constraint, translation, and shared authorship.​​

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Artists in long-term residency at VIAFARINI , Milan, Italy.

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Ongoing exhibitions:
Non-Solo, Solo Exhibition Thetis, Arsenale, Venice, Italy

Milan Design Week Giorgetti Spiga — The Place, Milan, Italy

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