The Paris International Exposition, 1937

The video is an original 1937 film recovered on the internet and then reworked in post-production to simulate the artist's participation in the Paris International Exhibition, held a few years before the outbreak of World War II in the French capital. Using shooting techniques consistent with those of the time, four short contributions were created and included in the video showing the artist's pavilion alongside the other national pavilions. The video offers a glance of the imposing and scenic architectures through which the various states expressed their political ideologies. Through them it is already possible to see the signs of that aggressiveness that would explode a year later in the bloodiest war of the century.
By grafting into manifestation, the artist designs and creates a pavilion, transfiguring his self-portrait and placing it on a stepped structure. The recovery of that typical architecture of the great towers of antiquity, symbol of the union of earth and sky, is intended to define a sacred, apolitical and universal place with which to create a pavilion dedicated to the 'State of Being' , with the aim of transcending all nationalism, basing its identity on dialogue.

The video is in dialogue with other works that complete this mental journey, enriching it with other points of reflection.

Original documentary film modified. 1080p