Realized in Mezzano di Primiero during Una Boccata D’arte Initiative curated by Fondazione Elpis and Galleria Continua.
Ovalized tennis balls coming from space at ultra-high-speed are materialized, blocked a moment before the impact on three six-meter high silver fir trunks.
Installed on the slopes of the Dolomites, the sculptural devices, result of a collaboration with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), are imagined as a time compression parenthesis obtained by connecting a 5.500 years ago technic “the bronze casting” with a brand new experimental physics technology called “muonic scintillator” able to detect the passage, beyond the metallic material surface, of an otherwise invisible subatomic particles, signaling them with a light impulse.
The Dragon’s Eggs are archaic elements but allude to the maximum dematerialization, to quantum entanglement, to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, to the energy limit of the Planck Scale, to the discretion of neutrinos and the futuristic drifts of IMB’s quantum computing.
they are “WIMPS”, literally “good for nothing”, but in scientific jargon, it represents the acronym of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles.
They are, first of all, a communicator in which complex systems collide, subliminally speaking of gravitational waves, dark matter, and multi-messenger cosmology.
They put us in direct connection, through a simple flash of light, with a particle drifting, the witness of some gargantuan cosmic event that may have happened thousands of light-years ago, removing the distance that normally separates a hypothetical active observer from the decay of a probabilistic wave function, otherwise confined in the cryptic meanders of the mathematical language.
Exhibition view at Mezzano di Primiero. photo credit: Valerio Panella / Dragon’s Egg, 2020. Mirrored Bronze, still, muonic scintillator INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) trunks tree, 600x50x50 cm
Dragon’s Egg, 2020. Mirrored Bronze, still, muonic scintillator INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) trunks tree, 600x50x50 cm
photo credit: Valerio Panella
Dragon’s Eggs, 2020. Mirrored Bronze, still, muonic scintillator INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) trunks tree, 600x50x50 cm
photo credit: Valerio Panella
Dragon’s Eggs, 2020. Mirrored Bronze, still, muonic scintillator INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) trunks tree, 600x50x50 cm
photo credit: Valerio Panella
Dragon’s Egg, 2020. Mirrored Bronze, still, muonic scintillator INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) trunks tree, 600x50x50 cm
photo credit: Valerio Panella
Dragon’s Egg, 2020. Mirrored Bronze, still, muonic scintillator INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) trunks tree, 600x50x50 cm
photo credit: Valerio Panella
Dragon’s Egg, 2020. Mirrored Bronze, still, muonic scintillator INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) trunks tree, 600x50x50 cm
photo credit: Valerio Panella