Condenser l'Infini
Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain•Jun 21, 2024 — Sep 14, 2024
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Michele Ciacciofera (1969, Italy) is offering Passerelle an experience which may appear impossible, that of ‘Condensing the Infinite’. From his native Sardinia to the Alps and then Brittany and Scotland, he has observed the ancient sculptural forms, such as memorial stones and menhirs, on which human civilisations are based. In his European journey, he considers the inevitable end of us all and the infinite potential of our visual culture to go beyond the world dreamed up by our ancestors. ‘Condensing the Infinite’ is an attempt to write a common history, a history of the forms that our brains all recognise to a greater or lesser extent.
The body of works presented in the Passerelle patio has been entitled ‘Menhirs’ by the artist. Ciacciofera is fascinated by megalithic art, yet decided to work from fragile, modest materials, essentially workshop waste including paper and cardboard, the very opposite of the eternity of stone. In this sense this series recalls the work of the...More
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Condenser l'Infini
Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain•Jun 21, 2024 — Sep 14, 2024
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Michele Ciacciofera (1969, Italy) is offering Passerelle an experience which may appear impossible, that of ‘Condensing the Infinite’. From his native Sardinia to the Alps and then Brittany and Scotland, he has observed the ancient sculptural forms, such as memorial stones and menhirs, on which human civilisations are based. In his European journey, he considers the inevitable end of us all and the infinite potential of our visual culture to go beyond the world dreamed up by our ancestors. ‘Condensing the Infinite’ is an attempt to write a common history, a history of the forms that our brains all recognise to a greater or lesser extent.
The body of works presented in the Passerelle patio has been entitled ‘Menhirs’ by the artist. Ciacciofera is fascinated by megalithic art, yet decided to work from fragile, modest materials, essentially workshop waste including paper and cardboard, the very opposite of the eternity of stone. In this sense this series recalls the work of the...More
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