A Bruit Secret / Pandora’s Box
The Secret Sound of Painting — site-specific installation with ten fresco portraits of modern masters.
Installation view — San Lorenzo (deconsecrated church), Poppi, Italy
By making a koan — a Zen paradox — Fabrizio Ruggiero offers the possibility of seeing
the secret sound of painting in Pandora’s box of contemporary art
through the portraits of ten modern artists.
the secret sound of painting in Pandora’s box of contemporary art
through the portraits of ten modern artists.
The installation is site-specific for the spatial as well as the symbolic dimension of the small deconsecrated San Lorenzo church,
historically used as a gallery for contemporary exhibitions.
Ruggiero invented a secular “show on the walls” with ten portraits as modern icons of art, placing
A Bruit Secret & Pandora’s Box in the large niche above the altar — a gesture meant to shift the viewer, even briefly,
out of mechanical thought.
The ten portraits
| Joseph Beuys | Shaman, Art as the science of freedom |
| Constantin Brancusi | Quest for the essence of form |
| Alberto Burri | The colours of substance, the substance of colours |
| Giorgio De Chirico | Enigma of unknowable |
| Edgar Degas | Flexible precision of drawing |
| Vasilij Kandinskij | Listening to the form and living it |
| René Magritte | Logic in absurd poetry |
| Henri Matisse | L’arabesque and the papiers découpés |
| Pablo Picasso | From trompe l’oeil to trompe l’esprit |
| Marcel Duchamp | A taste for disguising and disgust for the smell of turpentine |
Portrait thumbnails
Related installation: Visiting Old Masters
