Ignazio Mortellaro
a project by Threes, Terraforma
May 2012
Ignazio Mortellaro
a project by Threes, Terraforma
May 2012
The exposition is closely bound to the artist research efforts around Nature and natural events considered as fragments of a dialogue between mankind and for mankind. After an earthquake, what was once Land becomes Sea, a relentless liquefaction of the land ground nullify those points used to measure distances, relationships and memories. Few seconds of a tremor dilate into a calm tragedy spanning a longer time-lapse. An initial collective sharing of the same misfortune soon explodes into a constellation of pains internalised by each victim. The fragile glass structures we build, the desires, the aspirations, are all compromised and corroded by the pitch black. Memory – once used as source of coordinates in our own frame of reference – loses any physical support as well as those fetishes that kept it useful for this purpose. The same space once taken by heavy printing machinery now lodges a thin, weak neon structure. The same ink used to keep memory alive on paper now accomplish the opposite purpose by flooding the Roland Ultra room floor. What is left is the sound of the landscape without the support of the ground. […] (abstract text by Ruggero Pietromarchi)