A man and a rowboat cross the surface of a lake. Neither the origin nor the destination of this figure... Read More
A man and a rowboat cross the surface of a lake. Neither the origin nor the destination of this figure is known. Two antithetical elements coexist in the video: a natural lake in Trentino and an artificial sound. It is the constant sound present at the Porto di Mare stop on the yellow line in Milan, which comes from the archive of sounds I have been collecting for years. The use of sound was certainly inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni's Deserto Rosso, 1964, and Bill Viola (The Greeting, 1995 or Ocean Without a Shore, 2007). It is no coincidence that the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi titles his retrospective Electronic Renaissance (Giunti, 2017). The video has a still background with only one dynamic element – the human figure –. Thus this artwork dialogues necessarily with painting and photography. Natural and artificial, cinema, photography and painting contaminate each other in the simplicity of a minimalist and essential composition, creating an atmosphere suspended between extreme stillness and surprising restlessness.
