The Tempest of fire in the Globe
size: 120x100 cm
material: oak wood and burnt oak wood
The Tempest is considered in many ways the
testament, and perhaps also the farewell to the scenes of the famous
playwright. Probably also the last work staged in the Globe Theater before the
great fire of 1613.
Anselmini's work, which he defined as a sculptural
scenography, completely made of oak wood, the material with which it is thought
the Globe Theater was built.
The scenographic composition of the work starts
from the re-elaboration of one of the basic concepts theorized by Adolphe Appia
(considered the father of contemporary scenography), namely the linearity that
dialogues with the sinuosity of human forms.
This work continues a research on natural matter
started by Anselmini with a series of scenographic installations with the
rather exhaustive title "Mother Nature featuring Andrea Anselmini"
(... allowing natural matter to become the protagonist, which will no longer be
the bearer, or for better to say support for human creation, but in this case
man will become at the service of itself and therefore of nature. With the sole
purpose of allowing the latter to always reveal itself to be different and
wonderful ...)
