Blog flash007 de Leonora Bisagno

Untitled (on tiptoe) 2010

Untitled (on tiptoe) is a site-specific installation for the Fondazione Lanfranco Baldi, Pelago, Italy. It is a multi-sensorial intervention performed by scattered coloured glass particles and wallpaper fragments reproducing sky reflections on water. A small watercolour, of two beetles mating, completes the installation. The glass particles sprawl at first sight like a sand expanse transforms the visitors’ walk through the Fondazione premises into a precarious, frail passage. Leonora Bisagno’s practice of re-using chanced on images and objects introduced into a new context or flow of ideas is here emphasized by the use of recycled glass from a local recycling plant. The installation is a reflection on representation, illusion, fragmentation and reflection itself. Both images and the sprawl prevent an overall view stressed by the cautious steps on the crackling floor. The fragmented landscape blends natural elements into an illusionary space and the absence of water plants define it as sky though being a water scenery.The illusionary complexity of reflection reveals fully through its opacity and the creation and recreation is also paired with a consideration on the environment.

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Apogee (Pollicino’s strategy) 2010 _plastiline

Apogee (Pollicino’s strategy) is a site-specific installation on the railing of the Villa’s main staircase. An imperceptible, minimal intervention that modifies the whole perception of the space by a playful, simple gesture which accompanies the visitor to the Villa’s halls and brings art to a tactile proximity.

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Il grillo per la testa 2010_ red colour paint, autumn grapevine plants photography _ digital print 40×60 cm

Il grillo per la testa is a site-specific installation in the neoclassical Villa Romana on the outskirts of Florence. Leonora Bisagno has decided to open the interior balcony above the entrance of the Villa, inaccessible for a long time, and work on architectural elements of the building. The isolated, closed balcony painted in a pompei red colour, en vogue during Neoclassicism, but missing in the Villa gives new life to its central but unnoticed area. The work is a reflection on surface as part of Leonora Bisagno’s artistic research and decoration: the balcony itself as an element placed between interior and exterior of an edifice is related to the grapevine, ancient decorative element which usually covers buidings’ façades and surfaces. The image placed on the leaves of the balcony, showing a cricket on a head, is a reflection on the relationship between nature and representation and on the interaction between nature and mankind. Il grillo per la testa (a cricket on the head) is an Italian expression that means to be full of bizarre, strange ideas.

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