adhd

[attention dialed into higher dimensions]

agorà ice stadium, milano

14.06.2014

Photons work hard to get from the heart to the surface of the sun. It can take up to 160,000 years to complete the 400,000+-mile journey. And yet, once the Earth-bound photons reach the surface, they travel the 93-million-mile distance to our planet in just over eight minutes. From the Earth’s surface the facilities of A2A energy suppliers absorb − via solar panels and accumulators − the heat of the sunlight, overturning its chemical composition so to transform it into SUN PIECE INCARNATION – the stadium’s iced ground. The crystals [children], the drawing of agate & milk [x], and the twelve sculptures on the stands [zodiac nervous system] work as a filtering system for these iced solar rays. The exhibition ADHD transforms the Agorà Ice Stadium of Milan into a catalyst. It facilitates the acceleration of both chemical, physical and metaphisical processes during the incarnation of a new generation of people capable of expanding human perception and evolving our condition as human-consumers to the role of human demigods.

Children, a series of crystals resting on ice, were the scraps of a marble quarry. After being laser-etched and reinforced with enamel and glass fibers, their chemical composition defines the first filtration system for the sun’s iced rays. Each drawing, made on sudden impulse or during meditation, is the circuit of a specific frequency.

Twelve sculptures in the stands incarnate the nervous system of a zodiac: every sign of the zodiac coincides and governs a precise part of an entity, which in astrology is called “zodiac body”. This gaseous presence, of which nerves emerge only in the form of a massive electric shock, is hardly noticeable but ubiquitous and pervasive. It mediates the influence of the sky on earth and of the planets on our very nature. We can imagine a zodiac nervous system as an abstract anthropomorphic creature, both androgynous and animal, whose head is governed by the Aries; neck, nape and throat by Taurus; the lungs by Gemini; chest and digestive tract by cancer; heart, solar plexus and venous circulation by Leo; stomach and belly by Virgo; kidneys and internal genital organs from Libra; external genitalia and the lower part of the digestive tract by Scorpio; thighs, liver, and pancreas from Sagittarius; knees and bones from Capricorn; legs and ankles from Aquarius; and the feet by Pisces.

All of these forces converge at a point in the middle of the stadium: X. Positioned beneath a massive sound system switched off, this work is the clot of a sound – a sound so loud that it becomes transformed into material. The drawing in onyx and milk depicts a snake that is eating/regurgitating a man. It is a symbol of rebirth applicant in different cultures and eras of humankind. It can be found in the biblical text of Genesis, in Mayan, Egyptian and Greek iconography, as well as in the symbol of italian car company Alfa Romeo or in the arms of the Visconti family, symbol of the city of Milan.

SUN PIECE INCARNATION, 2011-2014  | ice, PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM, TRANSFORMERs AND ACCUMULATORs SYSTEM, environmental dimensions

CHILDREN, 2012-2014  |  laser etched opal-white CRYSTAL (australia), serie of 12. here: I (38×29×2 cm); VI(70×40×2 cm); VIII(75×45×2cm)

ZODIAC NERVOUS SYSTEM, 2014 |aluminium, 12 unique pieces. here:  sagittarius(thighs, liver and spine)350×400×0.8 cm; gemini(lungs)250×450×0.8 cm; libra (kidneys and internal genitalia)300×450×0.8 cm; scorpio(external genitalia) 300×450×0.8 cm