Steles
Installation, Political / Social, Various materials, 600x140x53cm
Visual-sound installation.
Concrete, iron, plexiglass, lights, hardware and software to create and control the audio-holographic streaming.
Minia - Art in Progress
Galleria d'Arte Provinciale S. Chiara
Cosenza, June 21 - July 19 2013
Steles proposes an idea of visual and sound iconography with voices and figures that simultaneously emerge from small technological steles. It is a reinterpretation of the tabernacle's popular spirituality of South Italy represented through the incessant monologue / dialogue of mothers with their sons. Flow of sound and light in which the visitor can distinguish individual features or perceive the totality of the parts that compose the installation. The miniatures in the form of holograms, are shown in small niches housed in vertical, votive, profane stones made by reinforced concrete. They are 'minimal' and historicized metaphors of the motherhood's myth, symbolically archaic and contemporary at the same time.
The work is based on the use of materials that 'opposite' by their own nature, are treated with 'unitary' creative mechanism and praxis. In fact if the static materiality of the concrete contrasts with the dynamic and in real-time immateriality of the multimedia streaming, the textures of the installation elements, however, are subject to processes of 'sculpting/filtering' conceptually similar, in each of the five steles, in both the surfaces of the concrete and of the sound/holographic images. Furthermore the thin parallelepipeds, that 'contain' the holograms, work as sound panels that diffuse the audio signal and characterize its timbre.
The dynamic holographic pictures are obtained from the audio-video recording of three mothers with their children coming from opposite social realities: from the well-being bourgeois to the gipsy camps. Living conditions, cultural backgrounds and languages are very different, and even here, are unified in their commonality of action and meaning by the universality of mother-child relationship.
Each of the five steles, different and similar to one another at the same time, hosts the same audio-holographic cycle repeated ad libitum and treated in five various and, at the same time, analogous modes. The starting times of the five streamings are not simultaneous, depending on the automatic and not synchronized start of each of the five hardware and software systems used.
Last but not least, one of the inspiring themes of the installation is to be attributed to the suggestions derived from the Pythagorean numeric symbolism in which really the meaning of the number five can also represent the concept of motherhood.
Concrete, iron, plexiglass, lights, hardware and software to create and control the audio-holographic streaming.
Minia - Art in Progress
Galleria d'Arte Provinciale S. Chiara
Cosenza, June 21 - July 19 2013
Steles proposes an idea of visual and sound iconography with voices and figures that simultaneously emerge from small technological steles. It is a reinterpretation of the tabernacle's popular spirituality of South Italy represented through the incessant monologue / dialogue of mothers with their sons. Flow of sound and light in which the visitor can distinguish individual features or perceive the totality of the parts that compose the installation. The miniatures in the form of holograms, are shown in small niches housed in vertical, votive, profane stones made by reinforced concrete. They are 'minimal' and historicized metaphors of the motherhood's myth, symbolically archaic and contemporary at the same time.
The work is based on the use of materials that 'opposite' by their own nature, are treated with 'unitary' creative mechanism and praxis. In fact if the static materiality of the concrete contrasts with the dynamic and in real-time immateriality of the multimedia streaming, the textures of the installation elements, however, are subject to processes of 'sculpting/filtering' conceptually similar, in each of the five steles, in both the surfaces of the concrete and of the sound/holographic images. Furthermore the thin parallelepipeds, that 'contain' the holograms, work as sound panels that diffuse the audio signal and characterize its timbre.
The dynamic holographic pictures are obtained from the audio-video recording of three mothers with their children coming from opposite social realities: from the well-being bourgeois to the gipsy camps. Living conditions, cultural backgrounds and languages are very different, and even here, are unified in their commonality of action and meaning by the universality of mother-child relationship.
Each of the five steles, different and similar to one another at the same time, hosts the same audio-holographic cycle repeated ad libitum and treated in five various and, at the same time, analogous modes. The starting times of the five streamings are not simultaneous, depending on the automatic and not synchronized start of each of the five hardware and software systems used.
Last but not least, one of the inspiring themes of the installation is to be attributed to the suggestions derived from the Pythagorean numeric symbolism in which really the meaning of the number five can also represent the concept of motherhood.
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