Luca Pozzi. Hyperinascimento
Curated by
Lorenzo Respi
10 September 2021 – 31 January 2022
FMAV- Palazzo Santa Margherita, Corso Canalgrande 103, Modena
From 10 September 2021, FMAV Fondazione Modena Arti Visive presents Hyperinascimento / Hyperrenaissance, an exhibition by Luca Pozzi curated by Lorenzo Respi, with the support of Regione Emilia-Romagna. The show will be presented in Modena and will run until the 31 January 2022. With such a title the artist launches the idea of a new humanism located at the intersection of art history, quantum gravity, multi-messenger cosmology, and artificial intelligence, and relying on an interdisciplinary perspective which plunges its roots in the Renaissance and whose focus is to explore the world through the eyes of contemporary science and technologies.
As Luca Pozzi explains, “In an era marked by a desire for a new start, a ‘hyper’ approach to the Renaissance transforms the artworks from the past into true technological devices, with churches, temples, and museums becoming avant-garde scientific apparatuses while the substance of our bodies is being transmuted into quantum bits of pure information. The Hyperrenaissance does not put the Human being at its centre: instead, what becomes central is the most impalpable and sophisticated language of nature – experiences of polylocalisation, temporal nonlinearity, and dimensional augmentation.” Passages, leaps in scale, and actions never represent a break in or an interruption of the cycle, for in the Hyperrenaissance every ring is linked to the other in holistic terms. This makes the hyperconnectivity of the whole with its parts even more real and symbiotic, as though the whole were a huge living organism.
Precisely in virtue of its innovative and digital nature, the exhibition also represents a contribution, on the part of FMAV, to the candidacy of the city of Modena to the UNESCO “Creative Cities Network” in the Media Arts cluster.
The exhibition itinerary begins with two large immersive environments. The first is an analogue environment entitled The Grandmother Platform, a silk-screen printed carpet with a digital collage of iconic Renaissance artworks and advanced-technology artefacts. The second immersive environment is a virtual one, entitled Rosetta Mission 2020 (Oculus VR station) and produced by the ERC project AN-ICON in collaboration with Casa degli Artisti; this work configures the project Hyperinascimento / Hyperrenaissance as a five-dimensional Zen garden.
Beginning with invisible physical events (magnetic fields and subatomic particle detectors) and moving on to internet websites and various social-media platforms (Twitter, Instagram), as well as hybrid sculptures – the Arkanians series –, it finally reaches properly digital spaces, in which the laws of physics are revolutionised and subverted, opening up surreal parallel universes.
The virtual journey into the Hyperrenaissance ends with the work Third Eye Prophecy Markers (Dark Collection – Sistine Chapel), consisting in analogue markers activating digital augmented-reality contents. These are thought of as a means to conjure up, at will, a series of sculptures in the upstairs rooms; during the first lockdown, at Easter 2020, these digital site-specific sculptures were geopositioned by Luca Pozzi in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican museums, between the scenes of the New and Old Testaments and those of the Last Judgement.
PH.Credit: Michele Alberto Sereni & Luca Pozzi.
Luca Pozzi, Hyperinascimento, 2021. Installation view.
Hyperinascimento, 2021. Installaton view at @fmav_artivisive In the picture: Arkanian Shenron, 2020. Bronze sculpture, INFN partcle detector, messaging sofware, internet connection, twitter profle, PLA component, blue leds, dedicated web site (www.arkanianshenron.com). Dim:70x40x40 cm.
Hyperinascimento, 2021. Installaton view at @fmav_artivisive In the picture: Arkanian Shenron, 2020. Bronze sculpture, INFN partcle detector, messaging sofware, internet connection, twitter profle, PLA component, blue leds, dedicated web site (www.arkanianshenron.com). Dim:70x40x40 cm.
Luca Pozzi, Hyperinascimento, 2021. Installation view.
The Grandmother platform Hyperinascimento, 2021. [Detail: Digital collage silk-screened carpet of the bronze door by Lorenzo Ghibert (Gate of Paradise, Baptstery 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)] Dim. 800x800x10 cm
The Grandmother platform Hyperinascimento, 2021. Digital collage silk-screened carpet, lacquered MDF platorm, black crystal, electromagnetic levitaton field, hand-sculpted and mirror-polished neodymium sphere.(Andrea della Robbia “Saint Michael the Archangel”, ca.1475 + CERN European Organizaton for Nuclear Research – “ATLAS LS2 Muon wheel” under constructon view, 2019). Dim. 400X800x10 cm
The Grandmother platform Hyperinascimento, 2021
The Grandmother platform Hyperinascimento, 2021. [Detail: Digital collage silk-screened carpet of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s sculpture (Pietà, 1498-1499), the ESA mission (Roseta Mission 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 2016)]
Luca Pozzi, Hyperinascimento, 2021. Installation view.
Rosetta Mission 2020. VR experience in unity and mozilla hubs realized by the artist and produced by AN-ICON ERC An – Iconology History, Theory and Practices of Environmental Images / Statale university of Milan in collaboration with Casa Degli Artsti. (1: Alain Connes contribution “The Music of primes”);(2: Carlo Rovelli contribution “Amplitude”);(3:Garret Lisi contribution “E8”);(4-5: Luca Pozzi contributions “Arkanians”, “Swan Staton”);(6:Michelangelo Pistoletto contribution “Third Paradise”).
Rosetta Mission 2020. VR experience in unity and mozilla hubs realized by the artist and produced by AN-ICON ERC An – Iconology History, Theory and Practices of Environmental Images / Statale university of Milan in collaboration with Casa Degli Artsti. (1: Alain Connes contribution “The Music of primes”);(2: Carlo Rovelli contribution “Amplitude”);(3:Garret Lisi contribution “E8”);(4-5: Luca Pozzi contributions “Arkanians”, “Swan Staton”);(6:Michelangelo Pistoletto contribution “Third Paradise”).
Third Eye Prophecy Markers (Dark Collection -Sistine Chapel), 2020. (detail:between Michelangelo “Universal Judgment”). AR android application, Alucobond, neodymium magnets, ping-pong balls, PLA 3D print components,digital sculptures.
Luca Pozzi, Hyperinascimento, 2021. Installation view.
Arkanian Leonardo 2021. Polished aluminum sculpture, INFN particle detector, messaging software, internet connection, twitter profile, PLA component, blue leds, dedicated web site (www.arkanianleonardo.com ). Dim:116x50x50 cm.
“Arkanian Leonardo” 2021. Polished aluminum sculpture, INFN particle detector, messaging software, internet connection, twitter profile, PLA component, blue leds, dedicated web site (www.arkanianleonardo.com ). Dim:116x50x50 cm.