Tuesday, September 28, 2010

WEEK 7_ Precedent Project






Massimo Bartolini

My main Precedent project from my initial concept presentation is Massimo Bartolini. Hiswork embraces various materials and techniques, from sculpture and performance to photography. The work is often sensual, artworks that induce in the viewer a mediative state that is highly experimental.

Massimo Bartolini creates real physical environments while being uniquely capable of relating them to some superior worlds. His installations include a special use of light and often sound. They are indeed rooms and spaces that, however, have immense tactile power. After the artist has created them, there appears a strange combination between the objective reality of the world we exist in and a ‘breakout’ into some ideal world. The co-existence of the cosy and the sublime in one installation turns into a metaphor of the imagination illuminating personal dreams, memories, obsessions and nostalgia ( Iara Boubnova ).

Bartolini has used lighting in recent shows to give rise to abstract environments that seem to propose an embodiment of pure, immaterial energy.

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