work
This side up
| category | Installation |
| subject | Political / Social, Abstract |
| tags | this side up, fabrice bernasconi borzi, allestimenti |
| base | 170 cm |
| height | 200 cm |
| depth | 10 cm |
| year | 2019 |
Starting from the idea and reflection that behind every painting, behind every installation and even behind every exhibition there is a world, a know-how, a work ethic: the installation.
In the course of his career as a art handler, Fabrice has come across various solutions to technical problems due to the primary material of a work or its maintenance. On one particular occasion, there was a frameless drawing on an laminate plastic formica with an improvised metal attachment. The laminate formica sheet, by its characteristic, can be bent and contrasts accordingly with the rigidity of the metal of the attachment, thus causing it to detach and fall off the wall. The solution of the improvised attack, in this case found by the artist himself of the drawing, was wrong because of the lack of knowledge of the materials. Having to restore this attack during the installation, Fabrice was inspired by this experience for his work This side up, mocking it.
Fabrice thus simply reproduced the evidence of the new attacks on a larger scale, elevated in his work to sculpture. Ironically, he had to solve a technical problem for his two sculptures: the feet. Supports that hold the two bent metal sheets straight with the pieces of formica glued together.
This brings us back to the story mocked earlier.
In the course of his career as a art handler, Fabrice has come across various solutions to technical problems due to the primary material of a work or its maintenance. On one particular occasion, there was a frameless drawing on an laminate plastic formica with an improvised metal attachment. The laminate formica sheet, by its characteristic, can be bent and contrasts accordingly with the rigidity of the metal of the attachment, thus causing it to detach and fall off the wall. The solution of the improvised attack, in this case found by the artist himself of the drawing, was wrong because of the lack of knowledge of the materials. Having to restore this attack during the installation, Fabrice was inspired by this experience for his work This side up, mocking it.
Fabrice thus simply reproduced the evidence of the new attacks on a larger scale, elevated in his work to sculpture. Ironically, he had to solve a technical problem for his two sculptures: the feet. Supports that hold the two bent metal sheets straight with the pieces of formica glued together.
This brings us back to the story mocked earlier.
