work
One two three taste
| category | Installation |
| subject | Abstract |
| tags | performance, food, ceramic, sound, installation, grottaglie, recording |
| base | 300 cm |
| height | 170 cm |
| depth | 200 cm |
| year | 2021 |
Poplar wood, glazed terracotta,
acoustic amplification system via piezoelectric and condenser microphones, digital mixer, L+R speaker. Variable dimensions.
The approach must be absolutely synaesthetic, it must be clear to us right away that Giulio Polloniato, artist and musician, does not want to show us an installation, he does not want to show us his masterpieces or his very fine decorations, he invites us to a tasty, fragrant and amplified banquet. A union and a continuous research between his two great passions: ceramic art and music. The set table becomes a pretext for the meeting between different people who casually decide to dine together, curious passers-by, friends, art enthusiasts. And in carrying out this collective practice made of rhythmic and automatic movements they generate a rhythmic ticking produced by the encounter of the dishes with the surface of the plate, a set of sounds sometimes interrupted by the splashing of water that passes from the jug to the glass and then laps the lips of the diners. And so, as in Ancient Greece, the banquet is transformed into a Symposium, a dialogue between vibrations and frequencies produced by the diners almost unconsciously as they consume the food served on a red and crystalline earth service. The happening, although free, however requires an orchestration: our director Giulio records the sounds, amplifies them, arranges them, mixes them, harmonizes them and reworks them until arriving at a symphonic narration that will be repeated in a loop throughout the duration of the exhibition. The sequence of recorded sounds recalls the sound of shards, but it is not a violent noise of something breaking, rather between timbres and silences a harmonious discourse has been created that evokes what was in this space in another time: a banquet between eight diners.
Elena Agosti, curator of the project
acoustic amplification system via piezoelectric and condenser microphones, digital mixer, L+R speaker. Variable dimensions.
The approach must be absolutely synaesthetic, it must be clear to us right away that Giulio Polloniato, artist and musician, does not want to show us an installation, he does not want to show us his masterpieces or his very fine decorations, he invites us to a tasty, fragrant and amplified banquet. A union and a continuous research between his two great passions: ceramic art and music. The set table becomes a pretext for the meeting between different people who casually decide to dine together, curious passers-by, friends, art enthusiasts. And in carrying out this collective practice made of rhythmic and automatic movements they generate a rhythmic ticking produced by the encounter of the dishes with the surface of the plate, a set of sounds sometimes interrupted by the splashing of water that passes from the jug to the glass and then laps the lips of the diners. And so, as in Ancient Greece, the banquet is transformed into a Symposium, a dialogue between vibrations and frequencies produced by the diners almost unconsciously as they consume the food served on a red and crystalline earth service. The happening, although free, however requires an orchestration: our director Giulio records the sounds, amplifies them, arranges them, mixes them, harmonizes them and reworks them until arriving at a symphonic narration that will be repeated in a loop throughout the duration of the exhibition. The sequence of recorded sounds recalls the sound of shards, but it is not a violent noise of something breaking, rather between timbres and silences a harmonious discourse has been created that evokes what was in this space in another time: a banquet between eight diners.
Elena Agosti, curator of the project
