work
Dialogo temporale
| category | Installation |
| subject | Abstract |
| tags | orologio, tempo, installazione, memoria, dialogo |
| base | 34 cm |
| height | 80 cm |
| depth | 30 cm |
| year | 2020 |
The artwork is composed by two sculptures made as follows:
metal base to which is fixed a metal tubular, on the top of which there is a hook that allows it to support the watch (with plastic case and glass crystal).
The two watches are instead made as follows:
A watch: dial with clockwise numbers and clockwise movement of the hands;
B watch: dial with counter-clockwise mirrored numbers and anti-clockwise movement of the hands;
The measures shown are valid for both sculptures.
Edition: single piece
Temporal dialogue investigates the meanders of the reading of Time. Through measuring systems, which have become increasingly precise throughout history, we have made Time something material and seemingly familiar to our daily lives. The work therefore attempts to investigate what is familiar to us by making two elements as transparent as they are mysterious dialogue: two watches. A reference to the ready-made, not in toto, since one of the two watches is modified and 'inverted', both in the mechanism that rotates counter-clockwise, and in the dial that has the numbers printed both counter-clockwise and mirrored. The work is therefore completed only when the two parts are compared, establishing a relationship of totality and complexity. The two clocks, which mark the same time but in two different ways, will make the viewer reflect on the value of this object and the meaning that it has in our daily life.
metal base to which is fixed a metal tubular, on the top of which there is a hook that allows it to support the watch (with plastic case and glass crystal).
The two watches are instead made as follows:
A watch: dial with clockwise numbers and clockwise movement of the hands;
B watch: dial with counter-clockwise mirrored numbers and anti-clockwise movement of the hands;
The measures shown are valid for both sculptures.
Edition: single piece
Temporal dialogue investigates the meanders of the reading of Time. Through measuring systems, which have become increasingly precise throughout history, we have made Time something material and seemingly familiar to our daily lives. The work therefore attempts to investigate what is familiar to us by making two elements as transparent as they are mysterious dialogue: two watches. A reference to the ready-made, not in toto, since one of the two watches is modified and 'inverted', both in the mechanism that rotates counter-clockwise, and in the dial that has the numbers printed both counter-clockwise and mirrored. The work is therefore completed only when the two parts are compared, establishing a relationship of totality and complexity. The two clocks, which mark the same time but in two different ways, will make the viewer reflect on the value of this object and the meaning that it has in our daily life.
