Milan, Nico Vascellari sows gramigna in the cariatid hall: « where bombs fall now seeds »
The « pastoral » installation, inserted in the art week frame, will remain set up until June 2nd. The artist: « The idea is to demolish the arrogance of human language compared to that of the entire life on earth »
The Milanese art week opens and closes In the frame of two large scenarios: the incipit occupies the monumental and tragic space of the Sala delle Cariatidi of Palazzo Reale with the « Pastoral » installation by Nico Vascellari. The curtain will instead fall on Sunday 6 at the Castello Sforzesco in the intimacy of the museum dedicated to the Pietà Rondanini where Bob Wilson will renew the meditation on Michelangelo’s latest sculpture. So today we start with the artist, performer and musician Nico Vascellari who in the cariatid room has reversed 400 square meters of land: Until June 2, they will be sown with eight kilos of seeds per week scattered by a mysterious steel cylinder dropped to the center like a flying jug. With a regular rhythm a black membrane slowly descends from the cylinder and swells with air until it explodes loudly by throwing weeds of weeds that will then be watered at night.
«It is a conceptual overturning of the cariatid hall bombed during the Second World War: now this kind of war residue of steel, on the other hand, affects the ground floor with seeds»Says the curator of the exhibition Sergio Risaliti. « In this neoclassical room the work recalls the duality of the myth: on the one hand Venus, generator of life, and on the other Mars, God of war. Vescellar neo-humanism is linked to the great Italian humanistic tradition, such as the alive horses that Kounellis exhibited at the Galleria dell’Actila in Rome, and has the strength to elaborate a new turning point of which future art cannot fail to take into account. Here the idea is to demolish the arrogance of human language compared to that of the entire life on earth; Tell the protervy of technological progress that is leading us to destroy the existence of other diversity « .
Nature is a fundamental element for vascellar, who despite living in Rome to stay close to the family, maintains a strong link with Vittorio Veneto where he gave birth to Codalungaa space born as a stage for underground music (the artist is also the founder of the band Ninos du Brasil who plays a mix of electronics and Batukada) and then became a place of visual experimentation.
« For me pastoral care is a job that speaks above all of resistance, » explains Vascellari. «The idea was born from certain apocalyptic science fiction films where cities reduced to ruins are populated by a few surviving humans. In my head those visions They represent the possibility of getting out of a disaster situation if only we question our role. Often in the storms of the city’s concrete we see a stubborn seedling sprout: in the same way it is a hymn to the resistance such as that implemented by the Malerba planted in the cariatid room, capable of surviving even with little water and light ». Said with the words of Giordano Bruno that Vascellari has made printing in a shirt on sale in the bookshop, the idea sounds like this: « I don’t know when, but I know that many we came in this century to develop arts and sciences, put the seeds of the new culture that will flow, unexpected, sudden, just when power will delude himself to having won ».
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