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Scenario
Scenario is an exhibition which articulates
sculpture, image devices and fragments of nature. The
general ambience is timeless and enigmatic, in which
objects and images have a heuristic quality, seeking a
sensitive and subjective understanding of the nature of
things and consequently of the experience of creation
and the origins of art.
Since the early 1990s Francisco Tropa’s work has
favoured the practice of sculpture, frequently in
liaison with the performing arts, drawing and technical
imagery. Also significant in his work is the attention
paid to assembly and occupation of the exhibition space,
to the placement of things, their nature and
relationships, so they can be seen and experienced. Such
inclinations are present once again in the show titled
Scenario, specifically contrived by the artist
for the Fondaco Marcello. Inside this old warehouse next
to the Grand Canal are items of various kinds:
projection devices conceived as small sculptures that
follow the operational principles of magic lanterns,
projecting images onto plaster screens over wooden walls.
The images have their origin in objects seen at the base
of each projector: an hourglass, a light bulb’s
incandescent filament, a dead fly, a dry leaf, and
various situations in which drops of water fall via a
thread, a small glass plate, a tube or a tiny bottle.
These strange yet enchanting images rework and shift
perception to a plane of wavering between figuration and
abstraction, between fixed and moving, between copy and
original.
Various objects are placed next to some of the
wall-screens: wooden boards and boxes, easels and tree
trunks. As components of a ‘sculptural scene’, these
objects integrate the space that forms from the
projectors to the walls, asserting their physical and
symbolic presence, as well as their shadow over the
projected image plane.
The overall ambience is mysterious and enigmatic, a
timeless place in which objects and images have a
heuristic quality beyond their specific value, the
search for another understanding of the nature of things,
i.e., for a (non)knowledge that favours the sensitive
and subjective. In this regard, the title Scenario
recalls the construction of a space, the indication of a
suspended space, which suggests a huge possibility: to
hold our attention, to summon up the experience of
creation, to empower the urgency of imagination as a way
to reach the truth of nature and consequently the
origins of art.
Sérgio Mah
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