Constantin Brancusi

A Bruit Secret & Pandora’s Box — The secret sound of painting

San Lorenzo Arte, Poppi · 24.07.2010 – 19.09.2010
Constantin Brancusi — fresco portrait by Fabrizio Ruggiero

Constantin Brancusi — Fresco portrait by Fabrizio Ruggiero
A Bruit Secret & Pandora’s Box · San Lorenzo Arte, Poppi (2010)

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.

Brancusi appears here as a figure of radical concentration: a pursuit of form that is not decorative, but essential — a reduction toward the inner necessity of things.

Within the site-specific installation in the deconsecrated church of San Lorenzo, the portrait operates as an “effigy of method”: a silent monument to attention, where the act of seeing becomes a discipline.

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