Luca Serasini
Butoh dance amongst the land art installation of the Orion constellation
- Medium Type
- A/V work
- Duration
- 00:11:21
- Year
- 2015
- Genre
- Performance
- Directed by
- Luca Serasini
- Music
- Bad Sector
- Dancer
- Esteban Puzzuoli
- Drone
- Andrea Berton
- Land Art installation
- Luca Serasini
Butoh (Butō) is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement. I found a relationship between my way to build constellations and this kind of dance performed with slow hyper-controlled motions, for its “distress” and “resist fixity” sense…
The installation were built close to a vineyard close to Pisa (Ceppaiano) for Materia Prima art residence, in October-November 2015.
Keywords
- #1: CURIOSITY
- I think this is the keyword that always moved me to bring back in visual way discoveries, intuitions, journeys, soul sensations, images. It pushes me to move, also phisically, to looking for. And discover that, in these 15 years of my career, almost always a certain technique is associated with a specific theme, within a technique led by a certain feeling, due to my curiosity…
- #2: LAND ART
- Land art is for me the best artistic expression technique because it gets involve the landscape and visitors in a unique feeling, in another places different from before (and after) the presence of the installation. The Landscapes are transformed and this is what I love (and search) to give to visitors.
- #3: STARS
- Stars and constellations are, for me, a very interesting theme, because they rapresents one of the best and old “presence” for humans. All humans, in different places, with different tongues, looks at the sky, at Sun, moon, planets and stars. But, do we need stars nowadays? With what do we orientate ourselves?
- #4 and #5: POETRY/INTERACTIVITY
- Because I love to write and to narrate little stories, and because I love old stories and mitology, I added these stories to my stars, using interactive systems, so visitors can listen to these stories, about stars, about their love and passions…
Luca Serasini: never-before-seen stars
by Eleonora Raspi
Light is source of life and synonymous with energy. Light is richness, and what guides the traveler in the night. Light is the main element of Serasini’s work. “There is nothing more globalized then the sky in the night. Do we really need the stars? Or they are like ancient cults of forgotten gods, overtaken, buried by new cults and new gods? Only in empty spaces, as the desert or the sea, it is perhaps still possible to feel their presence”, the artist reflects.
Two complementary forces drive Serasini: the writer and scientist, two faces of the same creative universe. In the planning stage of the work, there is the minutia of the technician, the obsession for detail, and the need – almost instictive – to discover hidden mechanisms. At the same time, we can perceive the designer’s delicate hand; his language becomes minimal, and breathes everything in the images, the light, the sound and the tissues that create his installations. These, whereas designed in a field, or facing the entrance of a museum, offer surprises to those who decide to stop and observe them, and thus follow their guidance.
Progetto Costellazioni invites the viewer to reflect on the contemporary man’s needs of the stars, or rather, it asks him/her to look at them closer one more time, stretched out on an unusual sky. In Orione, the big hunter and Pegaso, 10 stories for 10 stars every star “calls for” attention, dialogues with the visitor and becomes the protagonist of his/her temporary but sensitive experience. Almost unexpectedly, Galileo Galilei’s words come to mind, and in particular the beginning of Siderus Nuncius, published in Venice in 1610 and dedicated to the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo II de Medici: ” Certainly it is a great thing to add to the countless multitude of fixed stars visible hitherto by natural means and expose to our eyes innumerable others never seen before, which exceed tenfold the number of old and known ones”. With these words Galileo introduced to the Grand Duke the importance of his discoveries in astronomy made thanks to the revolutionary telescope instrument; specifically he referred to the discovery of the four satellites of Jupiter, which he baptized “Medicean planets”.
With his site-specific installations, Serasini offers the viewer similar suggestions to those of Galileo’s text. The same awe, which probably raised in Cosimo II, can be seen appearing in the eyes of those who are in front of Pegaso and Orione. Like a high and tipping, the various constellations, which generally appear distant and tiny, materialize before our eyes, and ask to be encountered and heard. Art becomes bearer of images of reality, of ideas. It becomes a tool in the hands of an artist who invites his viewers not only to see again what has been forgotten, but to reflect on such forgetfulness.
Biography
I was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1971. I started as self-taught painter in 1996 but since 2003 I started to hint also the photography medium, video and videoinstallations in my artworks. Most recently I started to make land art installations (2013) also adding interactive devices due to my study in electronic (2016). One of my main projects, the Progetto Costellazioni, begins by the question if we still need the stars, started with Costellazione Toro land art installation (about 100 meter of lenght) for the fourth Montegemoli Biennale Marte (2013) followed by Orione, il grande cacciatore (2015) for MateriaPrima artist in residence here in Tuscany, Alcor and Mizar for Art in the Woods at 2016 Holmfirth Art festival in UK (2016-second prize) where I first used an interactive device applied for a land art installation (since 2010 I use interactive systems for some light boxes and paintings).
During summer 2016 I have been invited at the M’Arte Personale 2016 to create two installations and a solo exhib about this project, Costellazioni Larderello (a photographic installation with LEDs) and Pegaso, 10 stories for 10 stars, a land art Pegaso constellation with 10 interactive old telephones. In these last 2 years (2017-2018) I made other 2 land art for the project and 2 site-specific installation: Come Iadi tra le Pleiadi (interactive) and Große Wagen, in Weimar (DE), the Kháos of Cosmos, as winner of Window Project Winter 2017 at Gazelli Art House in London and Costellazioni Larderello/light art, a wide projection on 4 big geothermal cooling towers in Larderello (PI). In this May 2019 I made my first evanescent land artwork in the beach at Ifitry artist residence in Moroc.
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