SPOT 2 - A PIECE OF
MY ART
Roberto Amoroso
curated by Adriana
Rispoli - Eugenio Viola
Madre Museum, Naples
24.09.09 | 12.10.09
SPOT is a project developed through a cycle of exhibitions dedicated to
the young Neapolitan artists at their first exhibition experience. SPOT
alternates with the series TRANSIT whose second step, which has just ended up,
has re-opened on September 9th at the PiST space as a collateral event of the
XI Istanbul Biennial.
SPOT was born with the objective of spotlighting for shot periods
scenery often submerged and transversal. Its aim is facilitating a wider
osmosis between the museum and the territory, following the Project Room’s
mission to become an experimental lab for ideas, proposals and new project
design.
The installation works on two levels: the first is mathematical and the
second is metaphorical. The Project Room is fully wrapped with wallpaper that
draws the visitor into a metaphorical dimension. A series of human-animal
hybrids emerges form the walls. All the compositional architecture takes on a
visionary aspect: the disquieting beings that inhabit it seem to be blocked in
the instant before they collapse to the ground.
Amoroso’s work is characterized by the reinterpretation of miscellaneous
cultural stimuli. The iconographic references come both from history of art
(the representation of gigantomachy and the posture of the classic statuary)
and the glossy fashion magazines. Besides they melt with theoretical cues such
as theriomorphism (hybridisation human being/ animal) and cyborg (hybridisation
human being/machine) that are key features of the Post-Human sensitivity. The
matter side of the installation is contradicted by the artist’s performance
staged for the whole length of the exhibition. Armed with a personal computer,
he gives a small portion of this work to all the visitors who are provided with
an usb key. In this way they can seize the artwork as a fetish and reproduce it
as they like.
The perfomative action clears up the play upon words that underpin the
exhibition’s title. It is borrowed from the popular song by Janis Joplin Piece
of my Heart and it ironically suggests the equivalence between a piece of my
heart and a piece of my art. Thanks to technology this gesture turns from being
symbolic into being literal.
The sound aspect of the installation enriches the artwork with a further
meaning. The original song is subjected to a process of defragmentation
similarly to what happens to the artwork during the performative action. The
defrag sound is reduced to a sequence of noise sonority.
A piece of my Art is a synaesthetic installation, emblematic of the
changeover from the work of art in the epoch of its technical reproducibility
to the work of art in the epoch of its digital reproducibility. In this context
the artist expresses himself in an un-subjective way while the work of art
tends to show itself as an impersonal product and an undone communication
device. This practice makes the notion of copyright always more evanescent.
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