SOCIAL ALARM: the fragility of well-being.
Natura morta metropolitana, 1998
* Natura morta metropolitana (Metropolitan still life), 1998 – walnut wood, aluminum, bronze and blown glass, H 53x3x34cm
THE ARTWORK
1998
At the end of the 20th century, the air was filled with everything: well-being, mystifying happiness, travel, interests of all kinds, projects thirsting for their anticipated results, globalization that frightened some and fattened others.
The air vibrated because the fragile well-being deceived its behavior and the swarming of humanity obscured its reality.
The air vibrated with everything and everything would never be the same again.
In the “metropolitan still life” the clusters of houses and buildings in which to live make space in the midst of nature that dies and is reborn, but above our heads the fragility of our acquired, illusory, transitory well-being remains perennial.
Here is the “glass apple” above the towers (Twin Towers, 2001).
* text by Federico Errante
The sculpture Metropolitan still life was born in the wake of complex sensations that became increasingly explicit with the failure to sign the Kyoto Protocol for the reduction of greenhouse gases in 1997, which established a sort of victory of fictitious well-being over the concrete commitment to global good.
These premises are the same ones that ten years later will lead to the creation of Tracheostomized people (2008), an alarmist and dystopian installation.