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Intrecci sinergetici

Intrecci sinergetici

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Roberto Pugliese&Donatella lombardo

Intrecci sinergetici Iron, speaker, audio cable, printing on fabric, computer, multi-channel audio system, audio composition

2014

"Intrecci sinergetici" was born from the desire to combine two researches, two sensibilities they met along the artistic and relational sphere path of the two artists, Donatella Lombardo and Roberto Pugliese,who have two different but converging research. Both are united by the desire and the need to contaminate your own creative experience to create new and unexpected results. The meeting of two poetics caressed by the study and passion for art has its roots in the belief that art itself is primarily love for the research, careful observation of what belongs to the world and to the people who live in it, penetrating into the intimacy of those who belong to it. They give voice to different languages ​​and their personal commingling: the "sound" and an art you'd call "textile" if not for the veracity of the original concept, a way of conceiving the work like a single entity , the result of a dialogue that does not want to celebrate the artist as the only repository of meaning but as the mediator of it. In fact, the extreme individualism that often characterizes the work of those who want to make art today, is likely to close its doors to fruitful collaborations between artists who can at first force psychological self-imposed those systems that too often cutting into the possibility of creating a solidarity and aggregation spirit at multiple levels in the art world and beyond. "Intrecci sinergetici" visually reveals the material/technological appearance so rife in our society, and respect for the typical sensitivity of artisan manual skills, a symbol of "microworlds" that populate the "large systems". Living globalization allows us to observe how communication and interest in promoting their own work too often sharpens the distances compared to the daily reality of individuals, the most intimate and perhaps more genuine. How to tell what is happening, how to reveal microworlds and the sounds that set the pace of their lives If you are not experiencing a small part and being bearers of a vision?

"So in small steps I entered quietly into that imaginary that intensely and poetically characterizes the Roberto research. I looked for a time his way of conceiving the works, fitting them, his way to listen, trying to grasp the technicism of which are structurally imbued and beyond. My speech is comparable to a "graft". The trait d'union is the interest in the media technology world and the way people live their territory (real / virtual) interacting with them, tracing their history and built their own personal vision of the world that is within and out of themselves. The writing of the web and the mechanical sounds, as traces of life, are placed in relation dialogue in unison to 'carve' a small part of the memory of the workers. "

Donatella Lombardo

Is possible to read more information about the project on the Donatella Lombardo website at the following link:

http://donatellalombardo.com/styled-4/

“Intrecci sinergetici” wants to be a fragment of the artisanal and industrial life of Terni, a different point of view, parallel to the reality of this city poised between tradition and innovation. The large installation consists of a number of specially made iron supports that sustain the audio speaker. The supports were made by iron laser cut, industrial process held to emphasize the link with the productive reality of the city. The arrangement in space of the elements visually reminds to organic structures giving life to a kind of electromechanical nature. A binomial that is well connected with Terni, an industrial city nestled in the wooded landscape of Umbria. Each support includes three speakers of different sizes which reproduce sounds of different acoustic nature (low, mid and treble). The sound generated by the work arises from processing by software created specifically to some recordings made in companies and artisan workshops in the area. The software contains some genetic processes that give psychoacousticly to input sounds a result of "organic"; according to the quantity and quality of processing the sounds are perceived more or less "natural" while retaining in part their mechanical nature. The 'ambiguity created by these processes inevitably pushes the viewer to pay more attention to the acoustic message, trying to determine its origin. These sounds have been then assembled compositionally based on their morphological characteristics giving them a temporal organization. The idea of ​​using the sounds of the territory born from the desire not to "colonize" acoustically a "soundscape" of sonorities characteristics already rich and articulated, but to enhance and reinterpret the latter by the use of processes related to my search .These sounds have been then assembled compositionally based on their morphological characteristics giving them a temporal organization. The idea of ​​using the sounds of the territory born from the desire of not to "colonize" acoustically a "soundscape" of characteristics and articulated sonorities already rich themselves, but to enhance and reinterpret the latter by the use of processes related to my research.

The presence of different audio sources gives to work a greater spatialization, so the perception of the audience is extended by making much more immersive the installational experience. A visual experience that is enhanced by the contributions of Donatella, an artist whose work enjoys an meticulousness, authenticity, and great sensitivity. But I think it was the "poetry" to make possible the union of two apparently far and contrasting "modi operandi”, "interweaving" and handing over a precious alchemy that goes far beyond the simple sum of two personalities or two artistic research.

Effectively is the poetry to characterize the artistic result of "Intrecci sinergetici." Poetry that uses a refined and elegant visual solution, combined with a sound composition that tells, mediated by our sensibilities, the reality of Terni area. In this way the cables that are a constant in all my works, are no longer just a tangle technician of organic appearance, but become a texture that hosts fabric fragments full of "mediatic informations". The connections are no longer just audio but they become doors to other readings, both conceptual and material connections that evaluate to "real" data. The informations seems to travel from the computer to the speaker through the electronic texture. The insertion of this information gives to the skein of cables mystical appearance but at the same time provide clarification that create a synergetic combination between technology and poetry. The large structure is a continuous flow of energy in balance between the real and the virtual world, between electricity and digital information. The intervention of Donatella has gone far beyond a simple "re-examination" of my work. It has penetrated deeply into my research, enriching it with new meanings and reflection points. Intervention that not will bind only with this artistic experience but that has its roots in a share powered by a constant exchange of opinions, thoughts, texts, manuals and life experience that has allowed us to reach the maturity to think and to produce works together.