REMOTE ARMONIE [Remote Harmonies]

by Matteo Nasini21 January – 29 May 2021

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​​With a view to continuing along the virtuous path pursued by das – dialoghi artistici sperimentali (experimental artistic dialogues), the exhibition focusing on artistic and cultural dialogue on contemporary themes that has now reached its fourth edition, CUBO presents the first Bologna exhibition by Matteo Nasini, curated by Treti Galaxie ​(Ramona Ponzani and Matteo Mottin).

From January to May, a calendar of online appointments will infurl both the exhibition project and tap into its main subjects, opening up an artistic dialogue that also involves multidisciplinary contamination. The events of the Public Program are curated by Federica Patti.​​​

While observing the starry sky on a clear night, fascinated by that distant spectacle, of the many questions that this sight can naturally bring about, have you ever wondered what kind of music could generate the movement of the stars? ​

Spazio Arte answers this question by presenting Matteo Nasini’s unprecedented artistic project in which the artist displays a new series of works inspired by the possibility of translating the movement of the Milky Way’s stars into sound, an engaging path that looks to the sky in search of answers to ancestral questions and aims to be a driving force for the evolution of human thought.
Broaching the theme of Musica Universalis, which originally regarded planet Earth as the unmoving centre of the entire universe, the whole project seeks to subvert its anthropocentrism and emphasise the isolation of our planet from the rest of the galaxy in the hope that the polyphonies generated by his investigation of space can make humanity aware of the arbitrariness of all the divisions that generate conflict, producing a feeling of universal community and revealing how the whole of humanity is ultimately united on its journey into the unknown.

The exhibition proposes a selection of works obtained from some of the many artistic applications and translations of the results of the algorithm: Mangiastelle assiale, a large handmade tapestry, Sidereo, a sound sculpture produced partly by hand and partly with numerically controlled machines and its calligraphic transcription, and Transtamburo, a sculptural group in ceramic with 3D printing. Works which employ techniques and materials used since ancient times, but implemented through the latest contemporary technologies, realisations of distant unexpressed possibilities. 

Mangiastelle assiale, 2021, wool, fabric, courtesy of the artist, ph. Francesco Demichelis​