Submerged Breath
Carlo Bernardini
A mental drawing, executed with the light of the optical fibre, can float and across the surface of water, not allowing the viewer to understand its origin. The installation takes over the space and incorporates it.The spatial form develops a challenging relationship with the space without dimensions, as it penetrates it, stimulates it and reduces to its power, until transforming it into itself. It is a role play where the space is transformed from the container into the artwork. The project with a site-specific installation is constituted by a fixed subtle optical fibre structure that tends to transform space in an illusory sense. Straight fibre-optic lines can create a dynamic field of taut forms with the appearance of slender surfaces. The optical fibers only reveal the empty space they enclose in a subsequent phase of perception. The observer can enter into a sort of illusory space, a submerged space.
This project was made possible with the support of France Regions Bouygues Travaux Publics and Pertuy Construction. By Octave Cowbell Gallery.
Visual artist: Carlo Bernardini
Submerged Breath
Carlo Bernardini
Cette installation in situ est constituée d'une fine structure de fibres optiques fixes qui tend à transformer l'espace de façon irréelle. Les lignes droites créent un champ dynamique de formes tendues. Les fibres optiques ne révèlent que l'espace vide qu'elles enferment, perçu ultérieurement. C'est un dessin mental qui peut flotter sur la surface de l'eau mais ne permet pas au spectateur de comprendre son origine. L'installation prend en compte l'espace et l'incorpore. La forme spatiale développe une relation dynamique avec l'espace sans dimension, en le pénétrant, le stimulant et réduisant sa puissance, jusqu'à sa propre transformation. Il s'agit d'un jeu de rôle où l'espace est transformé de contenant à oeuvre d'art.
BIOGRAPHY - Carlo Bernardini
Carlo Bernardini was born in Viterbo in 1966; he lives and works in Milan. Bernardini started out his career in the early 90s with an abstract painting that concentrated on the dialectical relationship between line and monochrome, diversified moments of representative conception of space-light; then, since 1996 he has been planning and working on big optical fibre installations, stainless steel and optical fibre sculptures-installations, OLF (Optical lighting film) surfaces and electro-luminescent surfaces that the viewers perceive in a different way and in a different form, depending on where their position in the space is. He is a three time winner of the Overseas Grantee award of the Pollock Krasner Foundation in New York receiving grants in 2000, 2005 and in 2010, and in 2002 wins the Targetti Art Light Collection White Sculpture award. He begins in the early '90s, and in 1996 he was invited to the Exhibition Palace in Rome for the XII Quadrennial. In 2002 he was invited to the Milan Triennale and to the Sculpture Space, Utica (NY), and in the following year to the XIV Quadrennial the Royal Palace in Naples. Among his most important international exhibitions it is worth mentioning the great exhibition in 2004 at Museo Paço Imperial in Rio De Janeiro and in 2007 the presentation of the installation Event Horizon at the Swing Space in New York. In 2008, with the Brasilian film-maker M.Sobral, he presents at the Bruna Soletti Gallery La Quarta Direzione dello Spazio, a visual experimental hypothesis where inside of the optical fibre installation, interactive videos of abstract light in movement are activated in the passageway of the viewers aiming at the creation of simultaneous overlapping of dynamic perception over the static one. The project Light Waves is realized in 2008, a permanently installed artwork at the entrance to the Brindisi airport. In the same year he also presents a gigantic environmental installation in the Umbracle of the Ciudad De Las Artes y de Las Ciencias in Valencia, placing his light geometries inside a dialogue with the renowned architectural work of Santiago Calatrava. In 2009 at Bologna Art First he presented Codice Spaziale in Piazza S. Stephen and was invited to New York for the D.U.M.B.O Art Festival as well to varius museums of Lombardia region with the project Twister for MAM - Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Gazoldo Ippoliti (MN) and in the GAM Gallarate. In 2010 Bernardini is invited to the XIII edizione of "Luci d'Artista" (Artist's Lights), in Turin, and to the NIMk - Netherlands Media Art Institute, Sonic Acts, The poetics of space, in Amsterdam. The same year he finalizes a great installation Crystallization Suspended, to the Artlight Domaquarèe, Redefining Centre, CityQuartier DomAquarée, in Berlin, and Space interrelations, to the Theater a/h Spui, Spuiplein, Todaysart, in The Hague – L'Aia. From 2011 Bernardini have a solo exhibition at Delloro Contemporary Art in Berlin and participating in The Arc Show at the Business Design Centre, London, as well as in the Kinetica Art Fair at Ambika P3 at the University of Westminster. In the same year he has made the installation at the Bocconi Art Gallery of Milan, and at MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome. In 2012 Bernardini is invited to the FAD festival de arte digital, to the Funarte fundação de arte in Belo Horizonte, to the Meet in town, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, and to the Claim, Lützowstraße 70 in Berlin. In this year Bernardini is invited in London to the House Peroni with the installation Infinity.--
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