GELATINE LUX - Panorama Pozzuoli
For the fifth edition of Panorama, the city-wide exhibition conceived by ITALICS and curated by Chiara Parisi, 45 galleries, 47 artists, and more than 110 works animated the Phlegraean territory of Pozzuoli — between myth, archaeology, and the contemporary.
Caterina Tognon presented GELATINE LUX, an immersive installation with glass, lights and music by Maria Grazia Rosin.
GELATINE LUX merges the ancient glass-making techniques of Murano's masters with innovative technologies and materials, from quality-controlled lighting through LEDs and optical fibers to electronic sound structures.
“The installation is conceived as a single large living organism composed of bio-luminescent alien figures and sound materials forming its nervous system. A great sensory machine that constantly spreads changing energy: matter becomes light and sound evolves into multiple moving sources.
The creatures have primitive and eternal biomorphic forms; they evoke oceanic abysses and extraterrestrial outer space, immersed in an accelerated movement of water, plankton, planetary dust.
The unifying idea of my narrative is that every organism is the final synthesis of a fascinating process of sequential metamorphoses, from the natural to the artificial.
It is a journey backward to the primary origins of life, a synapse between an intra/extra-terrestrial world conceived as an immersive experience involving the visitor in a dreamlike and imaginative dimension.”
- Maria Grazia Rosin
“This 'Cosmic Aquarium' is a fantastical architecture populated by inventive creatures, where the natural and the artificial merge, where the biological and mineral worlds live in unison while adhering to a deep formal necessity.
In this perceptive atmosphere, an overturned octopus becomes a chandelier, and a flower born from unknown humus blooms like a claw or a tentacle.
Rosin approached the world of glass in 1994 and has never turned away, becoming immediately aware of a way of working that is not reduced to the whim of the individual artist—as Jean Clair warned—but is a proactive dialogue between those who wish to test their expressive urgency and the craftsperson's work.”
- Silvio Fuso
Glass Tongues by Gianni Visnadi and Davide Mora
Following a specific input from Maria Grazia Rosin, the musicians created a soundscape that is an integral par of the installation, giving voice to the creatures inhabiting this intra/extra-terrestrial universe. Their electronic language gives shape to ever-changing sonic textures, at times discordant and at times harmonious.
