ChocolaRte 

A sight/taste formula to stimulate both senses and  to demonstrate that abstractism is really everywhere.
"At the end of a meal, just finished my profiterolles, she's gone to re-touch her make up... well, that took quite a while.

Requiem for an Echium (coming soon)

 

A literal audio/visual, an alliterating requiem for a plant which fell down. It gives us an occasion to bring together memories and reflections about the transitory nature of Nature. The sounds are from Soreki laced with a Brian Eno quotation from Kites III and a New Orleans-style funeral in St.Ives – Cornwall. Visual quotations from Leonardo’s St. John the Baptist, an Illustration of The etheric body by J.A Smith from B. Brennen’s Hands of Light,  and the ‘Kleeian Harrow’ is a disappeared  watercolour by Dhy. The footage  also features a special tribute to Nanni Moretti’s Italian obsession with shoes as a mirror of our soul.

Abstract Tar

This is not art, it’s Dhyano’s brother’s extremely hard job:  the insulation of terraces with a tar-based coat. The statement, as the photography, is  provoking evidence that ready-made abstract objects are everywhere so what is the point  in creating them?
The cutting and melted rectangular piece has not being created as art, it’s an honest  functional patch to seal an accidental cut in the coat.  It may however be conceived as a strong reference to the highly influential art of Burri and Fontana. The soundtrack it’s an installation called ‘Tar and feather’ and  can be used independently from the images. Flutes played by Dhyano.

Infinite Frost

What is the connection between Cornwall and Futurism? If it wasn’t one, now there is. Inspired by Terry Frost’s  Whites, Blacks and Reds the  video is a modern mandala with original soundtrack from 1913’s Pratella’s Noise Intoners. The hypnotic effect is meant to be a Third Chakra cleanser.

Transensory Vision – anatomy of a slide show

Here photography meets video art celebrating the process of perception. The focus of this video is on its technical process as a concept in itself. The intention is to point out to the viewers that their own visual experience is more important then the object shown. What’s happening here it’s a long one way journey ‘object to brain’. It’s the journey of light defining the object, going through the lens of a photo-camera and impressing a film of a slide. A beam of light is then forced through the slide, goes through a lens and appears projected onto a screen. The image screened, being filmed, goes through another lens (directly or sometimes reflected by a convex mirror), is recorded onto the magnetic tape of a cam-coder, transferred into the memory of a computer, edited, burned onto a DVD, read by a laser,  processed by a software and finally appears onto the screen of the computer or TV. It’s now ready to be absorbed by the viewer’s eyes, sent to the brain through the optic nerve and finally recognised (or not) as a known image. The content of the video is designed to trigger multisensory suggestions attempting to create the corrispondence between senses described by the title.

Sink art

 t’s an eco-statement that uses the psychedelia of the 70’s to deliver environmentalist messages through the ephemeral abstractness of shapes and colours taking place at random in the kitchen sink. Here again concept meets visual art: the amount of chemicals we see going down the plug in this video is the average used by a household in a month.

Diagonale Morbida/ Soft diagonal

 This is a stylised love story in 5 movements:
1.         Samba su carta / Samba on Paper – the encounter on a dance floor.
2.         Amore geometrico/ Geometric Love – getting to know each other minds.
3.         Diagonale Morbida / Soft diagonal – getting fused into one another.

4.         Dondolanze/ (made up word sounding like swinginness) – slowly setting apart.

5.         Riposizionamento nell’ego / Repositioning in the ego –

back to the original separated position.