alessandro piangiamore/untitled (daily) #1, untitled (daily) #5, una conchiglia vuota
alessandro piangiamore
untitled (daily) #1
concrete, dust of mother-of-pearl, blue shoe polish, wax, 30x46x3 cm, 2013
Untitled (daily) #5, concrete, dust of mother-of-pearl, succo di limone, vaseline, wax, 30x46x3 cm, 2013
una conchiglia vuota, video, 2014
Mountain, coral, shell, gravity. They are some of the theme, space-landscape materials and movements, on which Alessandro Piangiamore focuses his gaze, made out of observation, penetration, repeated materiality (the space inside the thing itself: the shell, inside the space). If the earth is heavy, here’s an empty shell (conchiglia vuota) that drips on the floor, made of cement. Or it’s grounded, and in dust it falls off. When the outside of this moment was outside, and the inside outside: it seems, through this title, to be staring at an unsheathed mountain, the great sign on the Toc, which emits a deafening silent impulse, and the light, here in front of everything. Or maybe it’s the shell itself, watching us. The shell isn’t grounded by itself, it’s being grounded. The human is the landscape. There isn’t, for example, action of entropy, natural, erosive, a process in which the human doesn’t take part.
This very same slope, right in our faces, is a landscape of the human: its erosion.
The action of the human, unmaking the shell, here, in the middle of this fossile great barrier reef, the Dolomites, a system-shell. The human makes the landscape, or un-makes it. In the tragedy. In the poetic concentration in a moment of tense attention.
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