Strange Attractor, 2016
Strange Attractor has been made using material found in a mechanic’s
workshop on which images have been printed using a UV printing
machine. These materials, even if they preserve traces of their original
form, always receive a particular treatment. At the core of this experiment
there is the will to use technology in an improper way and the wish to test
the limits and the new possibilities offered by the UV ray printing machine
on the sculptural assembly. This peculiar use of technology gave me the
opportunity to see in action the unexplored possibilities of the equipment.
The printing process usually requires clearness and similarity to the
original images, while in Strange Attractor the error and the out of focus or
split resulting image represents an interesting part of the process.
Strange Attractor is a process of fusion lying between sculpture and
photography, between the leftovers of semi-worked materials and my
visual and planning notes. They aren’t really leftovers but rather standby
materials, fragments left in a specific space ready to be exploited. They
are raw materials.
For each composition, I considered my attraction towards certain images
and objects in order to bring them together following the two directions of
cause and effect: the first from the image to the object, the second from
the object to the image. From an initial, static situation, the objects – ready
to host the image – acquire a state ‘of interest’.
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Strange Attractor, installation view, A sandbox in the desert, A+B gallery, Brescia, IT, 2016. Ph: Petrò / GilbertiStrange Attractor, installation view, A sandbox in the desert, A+B gallery, Brescia, IT, 2016. Ph: Petrò / GilbertiStrange Attractor (indipendenza), 2016,
UV inkjet print, aluminium, 2 x 43 x 6 cm. Ph: Silvia HellStrange Attractor, installation view, A sandbox in the desert, A+B gallery, Brescia, IT, 2016. Ph: Petrò / GilbertiStrange Attractor, installation view, A sandbox in the desert, A+B gallery, Brescia, IT, 2016. Ph: Petrò / GilbertiStrange Attractor, installation view, A sandbox in the desert, A+B gallery, Brescia, IT, 2016. Ph: Petrò / GilbertiStrange Attractor, installation view, A sandbox in the desert, A+B gallery, Brescia, IT, 2016. Ph: Petrò / GilbertiStrange Attractor (gps), 2016,
UV inkjet print, aluminium, steel, iron, 2 x 35 x 10,5 cm. Ph: Gabriele TosiStrange Attractor (gps), 2016,
UV inkjet print, aluminium, steel, iron, 2 x 35 x 10,5 cm. Ph: Gabriele TosiStrange Attractor (gps), 2016,
UV inkjet print, aluminium, steel, iron, 2 x 35 x 10,5 cm. Ph: Gabriele Tosi
Strange Attractor, 2016, Riss(e), Varese, IT. Ph: Gabriele Tosi
Strange Attractor, 2016, Riss(e), Varese, IT. Ph: Gabriele TosiStrange Attractor (yogurt), 2016,
UV inkjet print, aluminium, steel, iron, 6 x 18 x 7 cm. Ph: Gabriele TosiStrange Attractor (maquette), 2016,
UV inkjet print, brass, iron, 6 x 10 x 8 cm. Ph: Gabriele TosiStrange Attractor (solar system), 2016,
UV inkjet print, aluminium, brass, 8 x 25 x 35 cm. Ph: Gabriele TosiStrange Attractor (manuale), 2016,
UV inkjet print, aluminium, steel,
12 x 15 x 6 cm. Ph: Gabriele TosiStrange Attractor (clima), 2016,
UV inkjet print, aluminium, 13 x 20 x 7 cm. Ph: Gabriele TosiStrange Attractor, 2016, Riss(e), Varese, IT. Ph: Gabriele TosiStrange Attractor (Bikini Island), 2016,
UV inkjet print, aluminium, 8 x 8 x 3 cm. Ph: Gabriele Tosi