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Critici ostinati ritmici

Critici ostinati ritmici

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Roberto Pugliese

Crtici ostinati ritmici solenoids, circuits, microcontrollers, cables, sensors internet,connection

2010

The Galleria VM21 contemporary art i s pleased to inaugurate the project room of the exhibition season with Roberto Pugliese’s C ritical persistent rhythmic " . The work stems from the desire to draw attention to the daily drama, underestimated and uncontrolled of the global deforestation which inevitably undermines the variety and biodiversity on our planet. Nature, superior and mystical intelligence, a source of life, is constantly humiliated by one of his creations, the human being who, like a tumour, attacks and destroys its own organism. Just as nature allows man to exploit it at the same time made ​​sure that man evolving developed a conscience and sensitivity, the same quality that nature uses to defend itself.. Sometimes the human sensitivity translates into creativity and creates what it is known as art,, which has the duty and power to be witness to what happens in society, a means of communication from which a global conscience can develop. . From this premise, the artist draws energy from two main tendencies in art, sound art and that of the kinetic and programmed art.. The installation is made ​​on the trunk of a hollow tree on which were set solenoids which energised by an electric current, produce a loud "click". The software that manages the playback of the pulses is connected to a website from which, real time, statistics are downloaded on the state of global deforestation. The downloaded data is then translated into pulses to be distributed in time to the various solenoids. According to the statistics, every "click" produced by a solenoid represents the felling of a tree. This creates a dense, textured and insistent sound, a biomechanical graft that "screams" desperate for help and establishes an active relationship between the work and the audience, who is totally immersed in perceptive worlds that accompany him into a sensory experience.

We thank the company Elettromagneti s.l.r, which has played an indispensable role in the creation of this work