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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Saverio Pisaniello, RELIQUARY

Saverio Pisaniello

RELIQUARY
Model: cardboard, acrylic, plaster, gold
36 x 108 x 72 cm
There risky representation of emptiness is attempted through a new model- reliquary. Crossing its rooms (golden cells) you reach the threshold of a small house, yes, this truly permanent residence...
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There risky representation of emptiness is attempted through a new model- reliquary. Crossing its rooms (golden cells) you reach the threshold of a small house, yes, this truly permanent residence over time.

The Spaces of Mind:
Disease
Mirroring
Myth
Crack
Shadow
Abyss
Lapsus
Crossing
Limit
Body

They are suspended, a-temporal figures that are in a motion of aggregative dissolution they combine into the unity of a RELIC_ RELIQUARY.

Polymorphic object, and therefore all the more surprising, in a sequence that leads it to transform itself from a "bookcase" to an "anatomical / drawing table" a "Gilded case" to "reliquary". Toy upon which time measures itself through the light, now no longer fixed and white but shining with gold on an abyss of darkness, in a tension at the theatre. The crossing breaks up, widens, it dissolves the place, to find its own centre, the beginning and end of the journey.
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