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critical text by Gyonata Bonvicini
“A
figure never stands still in front of us, but it appears and disappears
ceaselessly. Things in motion multiply and contort, like vibrations in
the space they run through.” Umberto Boccioni.
The
video project by Alessandro Ceresoli tries to find a point of contact
with Boccioni's poetics. The dynamic and emotional lines characterising
the Milan version of “ Stati d'animo: gli addi ” (“States of
mind: farewells”) are the core from which the work develops. The artist
focuses on the poetic value of shape, of movement, of the relation between
objects and the surrounding environment, aiming at making the viewers
aware of an emotional state, rather than an analytical one.The artist's
idea is creating a set of objects, made up of cloth and flexible structures,
and show their behaviour in an undetermined sea environment. The video
assembles several unrelated objects, each separated and independent from
the others. There is no narrative continuity among them, but only an open
segmentation. Complete soundlessness, then, radicalises each form and
reduces it to its essence.Each object is the result of an initial esthetical
choice that considers the relation between weight and expansion of the
materials on the basis of a project issuing in movement that cannot be
thoroughly controlled. Water is characterised by ebbs and flows that shape
and warp, generate and de-generate, causing all the possible relations
to be accidental and unsteady.Ceresoli's structures internalise the loss
of space and time references through flexibility and movement. Water acts
as the space the objects slip through, finding neither friction nor conflict
on their way. Water does not deny differences, but, rather, it mitigates
and incorporates them. The possible variations keep the system in a state
of continuous fluctuation. This practice is based on the observation of
a series of differences: the higher the number of differences, the higher
the number of strategies that will be elaborated.
