work
ognuno di noi ha dentro delle scimmie. maquette
| category | Installation |
| subject | Architecture |
| tags | studio spazio Liquido |
| base | 500 cm |
| height | 100 cm |
| depth | 0 cm |
| year | 2020 |
In each one of us there are monkeys. Wall maquette
environmental installation
technique: drawing, serigrafia
The day after the election of Donald Trump, media pundit Ann Coulter compiled a detailed schedule for his first 100 days in office – Day 1: Start building the wall. Day 2: Continue building the wall. Day 3: Continue building the wall. And so the series went on... Day 100: Report to American people about progress of wall. Keep building the wall. I remember reading the English proverb “fine words butter no parsnips”, me- aning that nothing concrete is achieved by fair words or good intentions. It occurs to me that the concept of border, circumscribing a terri- tory, leads to both the ideas of proximity and limit not to cross; two opposites, I think. Border – boundary is a separating line, but the word frontier refers to an open space. Marché marks the realm boundaries, a district near the border between two areas. Frontiera points out an invisible line, a face-to-face meeting; thus, a space to overcome, representing a synonym of fence or wall instead. Fences keep animals in their place. A wall is a code to point out the security reinforcement of a border. Walls not only reduce illegal crossings but have another effect: those who appeal for something to be done feel that “something is actually being done”. We can use many words for reinforced concrete, barb wire, mines and weapons of mass destruction, heavily equipped vehicles and aircrafts, unsinkable aircraft carriers or cliffs hiding fleets, digital or technological barriers, walls separating politics from religion, in-between oceans or deserts, but in the end every human tra- ce is always artificial. This work begun as a personal geographical study in order to point out every territorial division from the colonial era to present days; at a later stage it became an aesthetic form exercise. The first step was to remove every state, continent, sea, leaving erected walls only. Whether unintentionally or not, humankind has produced a calligraphy on Earth. The second step was to place these marks on the board together with their possible drifts on dry land. The resulting design recalls camouflage pattern. A model balancing two opposites. I asked myself whether this could become a wallpaper maquette; A merely aesthetic, ornamental, frivolous object. Paper on wall.
https://mega.nz/folder/u8kDnSRR#VulZ005nm_815V_iIb9i9A
environmental installation
technique: drawing, serigrafia
The day after the election of Donald Trump, media pundit Ann Coulter compiled a detailed schedule for his first 100 days in office – Day 1: Start building the wall. Day 2: Continue building the wall. Day 3: Continue building the wall. And so the series went on... Day 100: Report to American people about progress of wall. Keep building the wall. I remember reading the English proverb “fine words butter no parsnips”, me- aning that nothing concrete is achieved by fair words or good intentions. It occurs to me that the concept of border, circumscribing a terri- tory, leads to both the ideas of proximity and limit not to cross; two opposites, I think. Border – boundary is a separating line, but the word frontier refers to an open space. Marché marks the realm boundaries, a district near the border between two areas. Frontiera points out an invisible line, a face-to-face meeting; thus, a space to overcome, representing a synonym of fence or wall instead. Fences keep animals in their place. A wall is a code to point out the security reinforcement of a border. Walls not only reduce illegal crossings but have another effect: those who appeal for something to be done feel that “something is actually being done”. We can use many words for reinforced concrete, barb wire, mines and weapons of mass destruction, heavily equipped vehicles and aircrafts, unsinkable aircraft carriers or cliffs hiding fleets, digital or technological barriers, walls separating politics from religion, in-between oceans or deserts, but in the end every human tra- ce is always artificial. This work begun as a personal geographical study in order to point out every territorial division from the colonial era to present days; at a later stage it became an aesthetic form exercise. The first step was to remove every state, continent, sea, leaving erected walls only. Whether unintentionally or not, humankind has produced a calligraphy on Earth. The second step was to place these marks on the board together with their possible drifts on dry land. The resulting design recalls camouflage pattern. A model balancing two opposites. I asked myself whether this could become a wallpaper maquette; A merely aesthetic, ornamental, frivolous object. Paper on wall.
https://mega.nz/folder/u8kDnSRR#VulZ005nm_815V_iIb9i9A
