Da lontano, 2015

The work, conceived for a temporary installation at the Museo della Cappella Sansevero in Naples, consists of two plexiglas plinths placed one before the other and topped by a case. On each of the plinths is the plaster cast of a hand, associated with transparent round shapes holding down the fragments of the image of the ancient floor of the chapel (on display in the same space where the work was presented for the first time) and other details, reproduced on acetate.
In one case, the open hand, in an upright position, and the images held down by the plexiglas rounds reproduce, in addition to the floor, a cosmic explosion alluding to the Big Bang. In the other case, the fist is closed, lying across some transparent round shapes, while holding a photographic reproduction of the Earth.
In the artist's intentions, “the drawings of the concentric crosses and squares, after the Chapel's original labyrinthine floor, are juxtaposed and arranged symmetrically so that they recall the distance between the echo of a distant Big Bang and the orbit of the Earth”; the two hands “seem to fix the beginning and the end of a hermetic and unfathomable journey”.1

1 G. Paolini, unpublished note, April 2015.