Askja, 2014
GPO-1038
Pencil and collage on paper, burnished plexiglas sheet, fragment of volcanic rock, white plinth, plexiglas case
Plexiglas sheet 26 x 26 cm, plinth 100 x 45 x 45 cm, plexiglas case 40 x 40 x 40 cm, overall dimensions 140 x 45 x 45 cm
Private collection
On the support surface of a plinth a fragment of volcanic rock is set down on several overlapping surfaces that are askew: a sheet of dark plexiglas, a blackened sheet with an illegible drawing, a photographic reproduction of the night-time sky applied to a blank sheet.
In their impenetrability, these surfaces seem to constitute an echo of the mysterious mineral presence closed within itself: as if they were (vain) attempts to represent that inaccessible, inimitable element.
The location in Iceland that gives the work its title recalls the provenance of the stone fragment itself.
| 2014 | Torre Pellice, Tucci Russo Studio per l'Arte Contemporanea, Giulio Paolini. In esilio, 18 May - 21 September. |
