Angeli Congelati

Torino, Novembre 2010.

In modern times beauty tends to be defined and cultivated into perfectionism, but the source and spontaneous paths of beauty we are unable to grasp. They appear in nature, in wild flowers and animals, in ruins, in dreams, or in sudden thoughts, views, and appearances.

The aim of this installation is to evoke this feeling of the undefined non-conceptual beauty: classical pillars, a symbol of defined eternal beauty, built from plastics, an important material source of this day, and symbol of temporariness, in decay, from where the spontaneous beauty rises like angels, put in blue icy lights to emphasize its timelessness.

The visitor enters a forgotten place. An intimate discovery, a sudden wonder, an unexpected scene. Just standing there. Silent, patient, awaiting..