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[garadinervi]

Giovanni Anselmo (1934–2023)

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Image: Giovanni Anselmo, La mia ombra verso l'infinito dalla cima dello Stromboli durante l'alba del 16 agosto, (color slide), 1965 [Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY. © Giovanni Anselmo. Photo: © Enrico Longo Doria]

(on the way of Peter Foolen)

[and-martinez]

Giovanni Anselmo | La mia ombra verso l'infinito dalla cima dello Stromboli durante l'alba del 16 agosto 1965 (foto Enrico Longo Doria) | 

Anselmo divides his time between Turin and the volcanic island of Stromboli. It was while walking on Mount Stromboli at dawn in 1965 that he was suddenly struck by the realisation that he was merely a tiny detail in the vast continuum of universal energy. This epiphany was to inspire his many works investigating the finite and the infinite, the microcosm and the macrocosm, and the elemental laws and forces of nature - gravity, tension, magnetism and energy. A wide range of organic and inorganic materials including vegetables, water, electricity, granite, iron and plastic are brought together in combinations that strikingly demonstrate these forces. |