The Body, the World, Technology and Culture
1. "Inside life": an ambience which is plastered with images of the inside of the
human body, equipement for the control of vital funcyions, a neurological multivision,
a large reproduction of the head of Michelangiolo´s David which, opening like a book,
discloses the brain. The lighting was realized using Targetti´s Unitrack system
2. "the journey": the floor portrys the division of the world in east and west,
travel films are projected on two vidiwalls, mannequins dressed in the costumes of
Cristofero Colombo and Marco Polo, on the cupola the reproduction of the world
showing the routes taken by the great explorers
From the central gallery an iter is unravelled to wich
Palazzo Italia itself has conferred a centrifugal and sequential course: "nomadic" in
the sense that is as though the visit itself provides not so much an opportunity for
contemplation − proferred in many other instances, like when theatre-goers are seated
in such a way as to appreciate stage effects - but an opportunity for initial involvement,
movement in space which reflects movement in time and movement in time which reproposes
cadences of thought. The installation project has trasformed this conceptual spiral in a
labyrinthine experience, homologizing its various sections within a common frame of
architectural reference, articulating the visitor´s route in an alternation of analytic
and syntetic moments, of rational and emotional references, of demonstrations and
performances. (l´ARCA, n° 64, October 1992)
Seville, Spain
(In collaboration w/ Arch. C. Casati)
