Carcass prêt-à-porter
Reflection on the usefulness of art towards the frenzy of life. This work emerges from the abstract concept of artistic uselessness, since by definition art has no specific function and is framed in an abstract context where it is paradoxically necessary. Today's rhythms are more and more frantic, the movements faster and more frequent, we are no longer autochthonous, we leave our lands and travel. We leave everything, but we would like to take something with us. It is here that art becomes necessity, in the strength of the values it transmits that allow us to feel at home almost anywhere. "Carcassa prêt-à-porter" accompanies us everywhere – day and night (with a phosphorescent effect that lights up in the dark). I see a person travelling for work, with his old and worn-out suitcase, who enters the hotel and assembles his own "work of art" – he even chooses the colour ... like if it were a tie. The gold one or the one for the evening?
The work is composed of several elements that can be assembled as desired. A kit contains 4 carcass heads and a cranial helmet with horns. Realization in wood, clay matrix moulds, silicone moulds and diplast castings, acrylic and phosphorescent colours, polyester resin coating.
THE PROJECT
Unità Polimateriche [Units from multiple materials] is an artistic project which began almost 20 years ago, when I started mixing the materials together, merging them without distorting their essence. My intention is to reshape objects of daily use into new ones with a different function, and an added value. The aim is to come closer to the anatomical forms of the human body employing biological elements, such as wood.Often, these biological elements are recovered from abandoned places, sometimes washed ashore. Elements which were once alive, which started decomposing and deforming with time – still, they possess an inner meaning. Hence, the artistic production consists in making these inner meaning emerge from the very materials they already inhabit.The desire to realise anatomical human forms starting from wood emerges from the connection between human being and nature, between being and matter. Human beings and nature share a lymph which generates, creates, dies and finally returns to nature. Unità polimateriche is a multidimensional reconstruction of the natural processes of life and death. We coexist and we need to share in order to coexist. This is the chemistry communicated by these coloured hybrid shapes: “every tree, every trunk, every human being has a story, a story to tell, a story to make people dream”.
