Animali a corte
Musei Reali, Torino
2022
The two sculptures, both entitled Notte, are located in two different places, about fifty metres apart, one in the centre of the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Turin and the other on the first-floor terrace overlooking the same courtyard. They face each other, and when their gazes meet, an exchange takes place. This is impossible, since one is a copy of the other. One is the self of an identical nature that duplicates itself in an infinite game of mirrors, where that image is always the same, it is animal nature or human nature that wants to believe that in mating that given capable of regenerating the world will be renewed again.
Kopači (2018) establishes a possible relationship between the Apollonian beauty of neoclassical architecture and the explicit drama to which the title of the work refers. The pigmented plaster sculpture represents a dog with its neck and muzzle stretched upwards: the position of the animal blends with the vertical lines that define the space of the Armoury. In reference to the title, Kopačiera is a Ukrainian village that stood near Černobyl': after the explosion, like all inhabited centres, it was completely evacuated by the government authorities, but unlike the others, here the houses were demolished and the rubble buried, as an experiment in erasing the drama.
Kopači (2018) establishes a possible relationship between the Apollonian beauty of neoclassical architecture and the explicit drama to which the title of the work refers. The pigmented plaster sculpture represents a dog with its neck and muzzle stretched upwards: the position of the animal blends with the vertical lines that define the space of the Armoury. In reference to the title, Kopačiera is a Ukrainian village that stood near Černobyl': after the explosion, like all inhabited centres, it was completely evacuated by the government authorities, but unlike the others, here the houses were demolished and the rubble buried, as an experiment in erasing the drama.