“I don’t care about the solution; I am interested about the enigma. The scripts unveil the complexity of the artwork: (…) if you look for a permanent solution, you will never find it in art”: according to Vincenzo Ferrari (1941-2012) the unambiguity of signifier and meaning can be exceeded through the union of verbal and pictorial signs, a resolute certainty that leads the artist to focus his entire production during the 1970s on verbal and visual experimentation. After a first merely pictorial experience in the late 1960s, his artworks show a consolidation of the use of language through apparently meaningless self-created alphabets drawn freehand or printed through a printing press. The idea is conveyed by a “pictorial interpretation of wr...