1000 CAMICIE ROSSE Sculpture

“1000 camicie rosse”, 2011 Design Nucleo_Piergiorgio Robino + Alice Carlotta Occleppo Dimension 250 x 110 x 72 cm Materials Painted Shirts inside epoxy resin Unique piece 1000 camice rosse, incorporated into a thousand red shirts blocks of resin, a conglomerate of cubes creating a structure without hierarchies, in which each block is simultaneously unique and similar to the other nine hundred ninety-nine. Each cube containing a different shirt, recovered and hue. And what were the thousand, if not the number of grains of a single repeated mantra that repeated, “unity” and “partnership”? In the museums of Risorgimento, you can admire the authentic red shirts, but not without making a discovery: they are all small, like the size of a child, twelve years old. The heroes who made Italy were men one meter and sixty tall, malnourished, they belonged to a land of pellagra and malaria. Thus, each module of the table, despite its smallness, it is essential to the overall structure. A red shirt like blood and flame. Not magenta, nor red ochre nor burgundy. But a clear vibrant red, violent, passionate, as revenge, that blinds. Garibaldi used red woolen textile that once were worn by butchers to create the uniforms of his men. The shirt itself is a symbol of fellowship with a group. Red is a colour linked to the principle of life, with two different faces: red as associated with the female menstrual blood and the dyad of unfinished life / death, and the red as men linked to the heroic conquest, that mocks death and finds its meaning shading the blood of enemies. And it’s in this red outfit that Garibaldi breaks into history and becomes myth, a legend. Garibaldi gave Italians a new story, a new history, with flavours like courage, unselfishness, pride, decency and a sense of institution. He created an heroic vision, something that lacks in Italy in recent decades.

Sculpture:Mixed Media on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:98.4 W x 28.3 H x 43.3 D in

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