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| Rainbow’s Gravity, 2006 positive plaster cast of an upside-down puddle of water, water, photo Courtesy Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Roma Photo: Valentina Muscedra |
| The work of art consists of an inside-out plaster cast of a puddle of water, and a small photo of an upside-down rainbow, testifying to a form of reality reworked in the artist's imagination. If the heaviness of rainwater forms a puddle, Alessandro Piangiamore tries to imagine the phenomenon of gravity applied to a rainbow, which is an event caused by the refraction of light on drops of water suspended in the sky. In addressing gravity, the artist does not refer solely to the physical phenomenon of the attraction of a body towards a given centre. He identifies a broader concept, a kind of attraction that is both emotional and intellectual, like the attraction that a person might feel for something unknown or intriguing. His works are a way of altering the laws of physics that regulate our common world. Art can offer a new truth of its own, triggering considerations on unexpected visual possibilities and interpretations. |
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| Rainbow’s Gravity, 2006 positive plaster cast of an upside-down puddle of water, water, photo Courtesy Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Roma Photo: Valentina Muscedra |
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