rotazione n.1
rotazione n.1, 2008
computer graphics, videoprojection, painted wall mask – Blu-Ray – 720p50 (HD), stereo sound, 2′ (loop)
“Rendezvous with Rama” by Arthur C. Clarke, “A Descent into the Maelström” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Assumption of the Virgin” painted by Correggio. Titles of works that evoke a vector, a direction, a movement. Rectilinear, ascending or descending, and a rotation around the axis of movement. Works that describe different objects and situations, in distant epochs and cultural contexts, but which share a treatment of fluid materials (such as water or clouds) that differs from their usual image and consistency. Plastic and animated descriptions. Correggio’s clouds and the Maelström described by Poe are sculptures of fluids. Protagonists, not mere background elements. Arthur C. Clarke’s cylindrical sea is an architectural element, a mystery and a teeming presence of life.
