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Trasmutation Sculpture

giorgia palombi

Italy

Sculpture, Modeling on Fabric

Size: 33.5 W x 63 H x 4 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

My goal in Transmutation is to challenge the characteristic stiffness and heaviness typical of the mosaic, to the point of creating a light and mobile, almost immaterial mosaic. There have been attempts in the past to give lightness to the mosaic, I emulating draperies and fabrics that are simply mere imitations on a rigid support, albeit visually impactful. Thanks to my experiments with fabric, in particular with the Shibori 3D technique, I created Transmutation, which breaks this pattern by going beyond tradition, rediscovering the soul of the tile, ethereal and light, leaving its mark on the world of matter. The tile gets wrapped in a fabric, undergoes a steam based process, which shapes and imprints the shape of the tile on the textile fibers. The tile gets removed and leaves its unique and unrepeatable imprint on what looks like a snakels sheath, a semi-transparent skin. The Shibori gesture of “removing” is fundamental component in this work, as the production itself embodies the process of transmutation. Duchamp with his Readymades has redefined the function of objects without however redefining the nature and function of their materials, in Transmutation I redefine the nature of the material without changing the function of the object, thus giving birth to the Shibori mosaics, a metaphor for life and its everchanging processes.

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Sculpture:

Modeling on Fabric

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

33.5 W x 63 H x 4 D in

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I love experimenting with mosaic, challenging the inherent characteristics of this medium static, coldness, two-dimensionality, hardness and heaviness through the introduction of mobile components, innovative felt materials, soft fabrics and three-dimensional elements. This is why I am known as the Metamosaic artist - a new art form invented by me halfway between mosaic, sculpture, painting and installation Mosaics transcend their limits to the point of almost dematerializing, as in the case of the Shibori Metamosaics. A bit like Piero Gilardil's Nature Carpets, my Metamosaics amaze and intrigue the viewer by offering him a new experience of mosaic: the experience becomes interactive and tactile and generates an emotional contrast between the known and the new. In my Sensory Metamosaics, static gives way to movement, cold gives way to heat. I want to take people by the hand and let them enter the magical world of matter, where three-dimensionality emerges only by observing more closely, so that an attentive and curious eye can discover unexpected textures and details, details that I love to amplify by subverting the proportions of the world real, so as to incite the spectator to a playful and intriguing, but never banal, "treasure hunt". My goal is to rekindle the spark of wonder, that state of excitement and total presence that we all enjoyed as children while playing: a state of free creativity, in which time and space are "limitless" and above all in which everything is fluid and possible, as in Dalì's dream dimension and in lucid dreaming. I firmly believe that “When we experience wonder, we become more altruistic and less self-centered. We feel a greater connection through humanity,” as Kaywin Feldman, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, says. The theme of connection is very close to my heart, which is why I developed the international transpersonal projects Wonder Lanterns (or Human Mosaic): it is a network of "Stargates" - monumental portals installed in various cities around the world - and a series of personalized three-dimensional sculptural Metamosaics made only on commission, aimed at all those people who, even in adulthood, wish to protect and light up the flame of wonder.

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