Installation Controllo e Divenire by Martux_m

Controllo e Divenire

 

Installation By Martux_m & Bruno Palma

 

 

In Sanscrit the word “mandala” means circle and in the Tibetan culture it is used to represent the Universe, both exterior and interior.

The making of the mandala requires starting the pattern from the very centre to favour a gradual opening in an outward direction. 

In the Buddhist tradition mandalas are created with coloured sands to be then destroyed, a metaphor of the transience of things.

For its strong symbolic and evocative value the mandala is the image chosen by the artists to represent the evolution of the earth’s climate 

change in the last 160 years (source: World Meteorological Organization).

The image in motion which creates the mandala and, at the same time, shows the data of  the Earth’s climate change 

from 1850 up to now through chromatic variations, is projected in a loop on a salt surface.

From blue which expresses the status of natural balance, moving through the whole spectrum of colours, 

we get to red that symbolizes that boundary condition where the ecosystem is on its break point. 

In this way the chromatic evolution reproduces visually the changes the different areas of the globe have undergone through time, 

allowing an immediate and intuitive perception of global warming.

In order to highlight the fragility of matter and  simultaneously the urge to preserve it, like in a kaleidoscope the images of the mandala 

turn into the four natural elements -fire, air, water and earth- , in which every substance that constitutes matter  originates.

Love and discord rule them in a continuous cycle like a breath. 

The former keeps them together in harmony within a sphere, the latter destroys them and takes them into chaos.

So in this work, the four elements that come alive on the salt surface, the element both of preservation and cooling par excellence, 

realize a symmetrical dance opposing the darkness of death.

The sound of the installation is composed only of the sounds of the four elements, sampled and organized in space as in a choral singing, 

which finds, in a fragile balance, the auditory essence of the world. 

To trust the world also means  to give life to the creation of new space-time dimensions, to create a rebel art that urges and imposes 

an undelayable action on our conscience.

 

Anna Cestelli Guidi