The GrandMother Platforms (Hyperinascimento)

Inspired by the Grandfather time Paradox the environmental installation consists of a large silk-screen printed rug from a digital collage and seven platforms with neodymium spheres in electromagnetic levitation. The work combines references to Renaissance iconography and contemporary scientific research, in a journey through time from the past of Italian and European cultural identity to the future and futuristic prospects offered by the experimental apparatus of particle physics, space expeditions and latest generation IT based on quantum computing. The horizontal, immersive painting takes over the whole environment. Depicting seven black holes, in the centre hand-sculpted, mirror-polished neodymium balls hover in an electromagnetic field, reflecting and absorbing the surrounding information. The Grandmother Platform teleports the visitor into the immense space between: [1a] the pottery of Andrea della Robbia (Saint Michael the Archangel, c. 1475), a component of the CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research particle accelerator (ATLAS LS2 Muon wheel, 2019); [1b] the Orion Spacecraft (NASA, 2014) , the sculpture of Benvenuto Cellini (Perseus with the Head of Medusa, 1545-1554); [1c] the bronze door by Lorenzo Ghiberti (Gate of Paradise, Baptistery of Saint John, Florence, 1452) , the salt cellar by Benvenuto Cellini (Salt Cellar of King Francis I of France, 1540-1543), the ESA – European Space Agency & European Union satellites (Galileo Satellites Network, 2003); [1d] the sculpture of Michelangelo Buonarroti (Pietà, 1498-1499), the ESA mission (Rosetta Mission 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 2016); [1e] the Space X (Crew Dragon, 2019); [1f] the NASA & Google Team processor (512-qubit D-Wave Quantum Computer, 2013), the sculpture of Andrea del Verrocchio (David, 1473-1475); [1g] a prehistoric artefact (Nebra Sky Disk, Bronze Age) and ESA experiment (Integral, 2002). Silkscreen-printed rug from digital collage, platforms in varnished MDF, black crystal, electromagnetic levitation field, hand-sculpted, mirror-polished neodymium ball, environmental dimensions.