SHELTER ISLAND is the title of the exhibition which opens its doors on May 17th and unfolds between the spaces of the Marina Bastianello Gallery in Mestre and Venice and the institutional ones of M9 – Museo del’900 and the M9 District. The project, which involves the intergenerational collaboration of two artists – Fernando Garbellotto (Portogruaro, 1955) and Luca Pozzi (Milan, 1983), was born from the urgency of traveling in the space and time of languages by hybridizing artistic and scientific research through the new format of the Meta-Conference in a historical period particularly sensitive to issues of peace.
The Exhibition ideally reconnects the public to an event that occurred in 1947 on the island of the same name near New York which brought together the most famous and visionary theoretical physicists of the time – names of the highest caliber such as Richard Feynman, John Archibald Wheeler, Edward Teller, David Bohm, John von Neumann, Hans Bethe, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Freeman Dyson – to discuss the fundamental problems of quantum mechanics at the dawn of the invention of the atomic bomb. The Summit, remembered by history as the legendary Shelter Island summit, was the first after the resolution of the Second World War and gave rise to that attitude of sharing scientific knowledge on which today’s delicate global balances still rest.
In a post-pandemic present characterized by geopolitical tensions of an energetic, ideological, economic and religious nature, the project comes to life from the regeneration of a relational network focused on the importance of collaboration and dialogue as a modus operandi and Sine Qua Non condition. Through the works of Garbellotto and Pozzi, we are called to take an active part in the Summit of ’47. This Summit, teleported to 2024 and converted in form and substance, becomes a cross-disciplinary installation with many voices, among which those of Carlo Rovelli, Roger Penrose, Shoini Ghose, Raymond Laflamme, Katie Mack, Hildign Neilson, Savas Dimopoulos, Pedro Vieira and Neil Turok, who, with their contribution, update the assumptions from an ecosystem perspective.
Starting from these assumptions, the Meta-Conference will take place on a digital comet of 4 km in diameter, inside a GAME ENGINE in Virtual Reality called “Rosetta Mission 2024.” It was designed by Luca Pozzi, who welcomed the audio contributions of the researchers, will present them simultaneously not only to the public in attendance at the Museo del Novecento in the form of a visual installation, but also on the digital megascreen of the Hybrid Tower in Mestre and on the satellite monitors of the M9 District.
All of this comes together to create a delocalized network of access platforms to content produced for a broader, non-specialist audience.
In its links, this network includes the two locations of the Marina Bastianello Gallery, where we find respectively in Venice a large wall installation by Fernando Garbellotto, inspired by the theories of Benoit Mandelbrot and centered precisely on the concept of Fractal “The Network as an idea of the world ”, while Luca Pozzi will occupy the Mestre gallery with an interactive environment composed of magnetic wall devices, sculptures engineered with particle detectors and a Virtual Reality station to access the contents of the “Rosetta Mission 2024” remotely.
The project it’s been inaugurated by the Shelter Island Meta-Conference Live Streaming at the “Cesare De Michelis” AUDITORIUM (M9 Museum) with an introduction by the italian physicist Carlo Rovelli.
Shelter Island Press-Conference / M9 Cesare de Michelis Auditorium.
Shelter Island Press-Conference / M9 Cesare de Michelis Auditorium.
Shelter Island Press-Conference / M9 Cesare de Michelis Auditorium.
Shelter Island Press-Conference / M9 Cesare de Michelis Auditorium
Installation view / Hybrid Tower Led Wall (Mestre)
Installation view / Hybrid Tower Led Wall (Mestre)
Installation view / Hybrid Tower Led Wall (Mestre)
Installation view / M9 District.
Installation view / M9 District.
Luca Pozzi, “Rosetta Mission 2024”, VR station, printed carpet from digital collage, Oculus Quest, game engine unity.
Luca Pozzi, “Rosetta Mission 2024”, Screenshot from VR Unity Game Engine in 4k. Carlo Rovelli’s speech (detail).
Luca Pozzi, “Rosetta Mission 2024”, Screenshot from VR Unity Game Engine in 4k. Roger Penrose’s speech (detail).
Luca Pozzi, “Rosetta Mission 2024”, Screenshot from VR Unity Game Engine in 4k. Shoini Ghose’s speech (detail).
Luca Pozzi, “Rosetta Mission 2024”, Screenshot from VR Unity Game Engine in 4k. Raymond Laflamme’s speech (detail).
Luca Pozzi, “Rosetta Mission 2024”, Screenshot from VR Unity Game Engine in 4k. Katie Mack’s speech (detail).
Luca Pozzi, “Rosetta Mission 2024”, Screenshot from VR Unity Game Engine in 4k. Savas Dimopoulos’s speech (detail).
Luca Pozzi, “Rosetta Mission 2024”, Screenshot from VR Unity Game Engine in 4k. Neil Turok’s speech (detail).
Luca Pozzi, “Rosetta Mission 2024”, VR station, printed carpet from digital collage, Oculus Quest, game engine unity.
Luca Pozzi, “Arkanian Leonardo”, Polished aluminum, INFN particle detector, artificial intelligence, internet connection, telegram profile, PLA component, blue leds, dedicated web site (www.thearkanians.com/leonardo).
Luca Pozzi, “Arkanian Leonardo”, Polished aluminum, INFN particle detector, artificial intelligence, internet connection, telegram profile, PLA component, blue leds, dedicated web site (www.thearkanians.com/leonardo).
Luca Pozzi, “Dark Collection – Sistine Chapel / Third Eye Prophecy markers”, 2020.
Ar Application, digital sculputers, PLA components, neodymium magnets, variable dimensions.
Luca Pozzi, “Dark Collection – Sistine Chapel / Third Eye Prophecy markers”, 2020.
Ar Application, digital sculputers, PLA components, neodymium magnets, variable dimensions.
Luca Pozzi, “Dark Collection – Sistine Chapel / Third Eye Prophecy markers”, 2020.
Ar Application, digital sculputers, PLA components, neodymium magnets, variable dimensions. (detail)
Luca Pozzi, “Dark Collection”, 2019/2024.
Ar Application, digital sculputers.
Luca Pozzi, “Dark Collection”, 2019/2024.
Ar Application, digital sculputers.
Luca Pozzi, “Dark Collection – Sistine Chapel / Third Eye Prophecy markers”, 2020.
Ar Application, digital sculputers, PLA components, neodymium magnets, variable dimensions.
Luca Pozzi, “Dark Collection – Sistine Chapel / Third Eye Prophecy markers”, 2020.
Ar Application, digital sculputers, PLA components, neodymium magnets, variable dimensions.
Luca Pozzi, “Dark Collection – Sistine Chapel / Third Eye Prophecy markers”, 2020.
Ar Application, digital sculputers, PLA components, neodymium magnets, variable dimensions.
Luca Pozzi, “Dark Collection – Sistine Chapel / Third Eye Prophecy markers”, 2020.
Ar Application, digital sculputers, PLA components, neodymium magnets, variable dimensions.
Luca Pozzi, “Awake Third Eye Prophecy”, 2024.
Ceramic (32x18x19 cm), Particle Detector Simulator (Muons), wood pedestal (15x15x142 cm), Grey Mirrored Crystal.
Luca Pozzi, “Awake Third Eye Prophecy”, 2024.
Ceramic (32x18x19 cm), Particle Detector Simulator (Muons), wood pedestal (15x15x142 cm), Grey Mirrored Crystal.
Installation view at Marina Bastianello Gallery (Venice)
Luca Pozzi, “Quantum Gravity Cave Archive”, 2011.
Installation view at Marina Bastianello Gallery (Venice)
Luca Pozzi, “Awake Third Eye Prophecy”, 2024.
Ceramic (32x18x19 cm), Particle Detector Simulator (Muons), wood pedestal (15x15x142 cm), Grey Mirrored Crystal.
Luca Pozzi, “Dark Collection – Third Eye Prophecy For Eternal Peace (Venice Biennial)”, 2024.
Ar Application, digital sculputers.
Luca Pozzi, “Dark Collection – Third Eye Prophecy For Eternal Peace (Venice Biennial)”, 2024.
Ar Application, digital sculputers.
Luca Pozzi, “Dark Collection – Third Eye Prophecy For Eternal Peace (Venice Biennial)”, 2024.
Ar Application, digital sculputers.
Luca Pozzi, “Dark Collection – Third Eye Prophecy For Eternal Peace (Venice Biennial)”, 2024.
Ar Application, digital sculputers.
Luca Pozzi, “Dark Collection – Third Eye Prophecy For Eternal Peace (Venice Biennial)”, 2024.
Ar Application, digital sculputers.
GENERAL INFO
SHELTER ISLAND
May 22 – August 24, 2024
Press conference:
With an introduction by Carlo Rovelli
(Remotely)
Thursday 16 May, h. 11.30
(Mestre, Auditorium “Cesare De Michelis M9 – Museum of the 20th century)
Locations:
Venice and Mestre, Marina Bastianello Gallery
Mestre, M9 District (relocated screens)
Mestre, Hybrid Tower (public ledwall)
Opening:
Friday 17 May at 6.00 pm: Mestre, District M9 and Marina Bastianello Gallery
Saturday 18 May h. 6.00pm: Venice, Marina Bastianello Gallery
Photo Credits: Francesco Piva.