Cleaning the Totem (monoblocco)

Luca Gori

Student

Luca Gori

Academic staff

Gerhard Glüher Stefano Riba Stephan August Schmidt-Wulffen

Course

Studio Exhibit – When Attitudes Become Re-form

Program

BA Major Art

Semester

2020/21 SS

Totem01 (monobloc)
HD Video, 15:19 min.

7 plastic chairs stack one above the other are cleaned and stacked again. Monobloc chairs are a recurrent element in my memories set in the small Sardinia’s village where my relatives live, they represent a social context as well as the way they are used and stored do.

The muggy heat of the summer months makes it rain dust that stains the stack of chairs, always leaving a dirt spot where you sit. Cleaning them for me is like reconnecting to my family’s land. An action which becomes conjunction.

<p>The Plastic Monobloc chair is a recurring element in my memories set in the small Sardinia’s village where my relatives live. The muggy heat of the summer months makes it rain dust that stains the stack of chairs, always leaving a dirt spot where you sit.</p><br /> — The Plastic Monobloc chair is a recurring element in my memories set in the small Sardinia’s village where my relatives live. The muggy heat of the summer months makes it rain dust that stains the stack of chairs, always leaving a dirt spot where you sit.

Stand Your Ground

Dove vanno i cani a morire?

A project made in the course

Studio Exhibit – When Attitudes Become Re-form

‘When Attitudes Become Form’ was a groundbreaking exhibition held in 1969 in Bern and re-staged in Venice in 2013 at Prada Foundation. During the summer semester of AY 2019-2020, students were invited to choose, out of the original show, one artist each and to reconstruct the work. They were also expected to produce a work of their own, which would resonate with their replica experience. Important was to introduce the concept of the artist as participant in an ongoing discourse, throughout appropriation and translation.

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