Voliumani

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Palazzo Bocconi hosts Azimut Capital Management presenting a site specific contemporary art setting-up, Voliumani, curated by Barbara Vistarini.

Dozens and dozens of small hands, joined on the back and open to the outside, like butterfly wings - from which the title of the work - will rest placid on the entrance walls of the building, waiting to take off. The shapes, cut out two-dimensional on black cardboard acquire a symbolic value. Even the imperfections of the cutout become narrative elements that speak of a "handmade" way that is not taken for granted. A theatrical lighting system refers to childhood games, when the created world coincided with that imagined by fantasy. Through the projected shadows, the hands become lightbearing forms, living and changing entities that can dynamically change their appearance and even their original function, becoming capable of generating new forms of sociality. The hands tell an ancestral story and lean towards the future, preserving their human anatomical identity. It is a Leonardo flight, the dream of man who, through his work, stands at the center of the world, ready for new challenges. On the ground will be disposed waste material of the shapes, to create a further element of interactivity for the visitor, with a sort of carpet in paper with its natural sound, which gives back the feeling of entering an outdoor space and treading a bed of fallen leaves.

The idea is born in sports and returns, through simple gestures, like to give a hand or cut out paper, a new way to experience beauty, to appreciate it and consequently also to produce and multiply it. The experience that the artist has been conducting for some years as a manager of the Paralympic Sector of the Centro Universitario Sportivo of Brescia and a blind guide for athletics, has provided insights and inspired a new aesthetic and artistic research. From the request of hands to guide blind athletes, the author has arrived at an "intimate" territory, rich in humanity and solidarity, to be lived in a continuous and reciprocal exchange. A journey to discover other ways of feeling, of perceiving lights and shadows, of grasping reality beyond its light-form and transferring it to an area in which the predominant meaning is trust in the other. An artistic and first human challenge, to discover universal valuesand feelings, a wealth of simple forms of great symbolic and spiritual significance. The blindness becomes a starting point to talk about lightness and beauty, never disability.

The exhibition can be visited until April 29th.

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