Exhibitions, Italy, Firenze, San Casciano in Val di Pesa, 15 November 2014
Bulk Project is the outcome of the collaboration between the artist Patrizio Travagli and the architecture collective Wokdesign (Angelo Basso, Leonardo Biagi and Marco Giachetti), consisting in a series of luminous sculptures that reflect on matter through the platonic solids present in Luca Pacioli’s De Divina Proportione .
The creators focus not only on math studies, but also on visual perception. Starting from three dimensions, they set out to visualize, throughout light, other hidden elements. Every figure (tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron) highlights, by way of a series of light reflections, an infinite number of dimensions. Thus, the spectator is able to perceive the unperceivable in an orderly and rational world: the infinite or multi-dimensional space. At first glance these works remind us of the platonic solid figures, but in a second analysis they offer the possibility of undertaking a perceptive ride that will cast the visitor in another dimension, in a sort of stellar trip.
After being shown in the Vienna 2009 Art Week, the Cairo 2010 Biennale and at the 54º edition of the Venice Art Biennale in 2011, the Bulk series will find its new home in San Casciano Val di Pesa, with the sponsorship of its municipality. The icosahedron will be permanently installed in the Chianti Tower, an architectural work that contributes to the city’s identity as a new urban reference. This place was carefully chosen based in its distinctive traits, in order to increase the cultural offer that is already deeply established in the territory. The variety of expressive languages is the region’s key strength, distinguishing the context where Bulk Project will be embedded.
BULK Project, which will not stop at San Casciano, foresees the production of a unique sample of each solid, in large format, each of which will be placed in different national and international landmarks. An itinerant art show of all five figures in reduced scale is also planned to be presented in museums and other art venues.
The creators focus not only on math studies, but also on visual perception. Starting from three dimensions, they set out to visualize, throughout light, other hidden elements. Every figure (tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron) highlights, by way of a series of light reflections, an infinite number of dimensions. Thus, the spectator is able to perceive the unperceivable in an orderly and rational world: the infinite or multi-dimensional space. At first glance these works remind us of the platonic solid figures, but in a second analysis they offer the possibility of undertaking a perceptive ride that will cast the visitor in another dimension, in a sort of stellar trip.
After being shown in the Vienna 2009 Art Week, the Cairo 2010 Biennale and at the 54º edition of the Venice Art Biennale in 2011, the Bulk series will find its new home in San Casciano Val di Pesa, with the sponsorship of its municipality. The icosahedron will be permanently installed in the Chianti Tower, an architectural work that contributes to the city’s identity as a new urban reference. This place was carefully chosen based in its distinctive traits, in order to increase the cultural offer that is already deeply established in the territory. The variety of expressive languages is the region’s key strength, distinguishing the context where Bulk Project will be embedded.
BULK Project, which will not stop at San Casciano, foresees the production of a unique sample of each solid, in large format, each of which will be placed in different national and international landmarks. An itinerant art show of all five figures in reduced scale is also planned to be presented in museums and other art venues.
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