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Untitled / Dark Mirror Sculpture

Alessandro Rolandi

China

Sculpture, Glass on Glass

Size: 3 W x 5.3 H x 0 D in

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Sculpture: Digital, Glass, Fiberglass, sculpture and cutting on Other, Glass, Plastic and Ceramic. Since 2015 I started collecting mobile phones' broken screens from shops willing to give them away. Since I first broke my own and I collected it and refined it, cutting its edges with special scissors to get rid of all details that would suggest the telephone's brand and other market features. After that the broken screen with its random cracks become something like a magic object, charged with energy and evocative power. It is weird and haunting and charming in a way a normal phone screen could never be. Instead of providing precise, easy and quick information, -as it does normally- and maintaining us constantly connected, it has now become an obscure cracked surface. It is also the result of an accident, a singularity which has interrupted the connection, disrupting the 'normality' of connectivity and continuous information exchange. Its cracks witness this accident and become a new written magic language, similar to ancestral references such as Chinese tortoise shell cracks-reading. From the point of view of contemporary art, the broken screen conceptually becomes a postmodern echoes to Malevitch's black square and Duchamps' Glass and yet, at the same time, its minimally transformed appearance also suggests some kind of very ancient ritualistic, magic object, whose material is instead, idiosyncratically, high-tech and futuristic. Once broken and deprived of its original function, the broken screen loses its transparence and acquires a powerful mysterious aura. It cannot be simply called a readymade, because a very delicate and precise intervention is needed to refine its 4 sides (as previously said cutting off the elements that suggest the phone brand) leaving them slightly scattered --as a handmade carefully teared paper-- and anonymous. Currently I have scouted, rescued and precisely adapted around 30 broken screens. Each of them is unique; each of them bears the marks of one single event, an interruption in their former owner's connected life flow. Each one's cracked and dark surface evocates both a strong sensorial reaction to its own materiality and a powerful symbolic, unseizable and elusive energy.

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Sculpture:Glass on Glass

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:3 W x 5.3 H x 0 D in

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Alessandro Rolandi Born in Pavia on 18th april 1971; Studied Chemistry, Experimental Theatre and film-making and History of Art . He has been living and working in Beijing since 2003, as a multimedia and performance artist, director, curator, researcher, writer and lecturer. His work focuses on social intervention and relational dynamics to expand the notion of art practice beyond existing structures, spaces and hierarchies and engage directly with reality in multiple ways. He is the founder and director of the Social Sensibility Research & Development Department at Bernard Controls Beijing in 2011, and Paris in 2014 Writer/Contributor for: Randian, Hyperallergic, Asyalist, Chinafiles, Made in China, Menelique Chief coordinator the 2014 Transnational Dialogues study-caravan in Beijing Nominated by the Global Board of Contemporary Art for the Alice Awards 2011 together with Megumi Shimizu for the performance "Something on the way". Co-Curator of 2016 BMAB Beijing Media Art Biennale ‘Ethics and Technology’ He is been giving individual lectures at the following institutions: Christie’s Education Paris 2001, Foreign Affairs University, Beijing 2004, Capital Normal University, Beijing 2003, Italian Cultural Institute, Beijing 2008, NYU Shanghai, 2019, Three Shadows, Beijing, 2019 He has been teaching and mentoring at : Ecole Des Sciences Politiques (Science Po), Paris in 2002-2003, Cours d’Ouverture-weekly lectures on politics in Art and Theatre Harrow International School Beijing: artist in residence and creative consultant 2005-2015

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