"Explaining Midnight"
About the work
"EXPLAINING MIDNIGHT” is a smaller and more contained work following in the footsteps of the series of large sculptures that were realized specifically for a personal exhibition entitled INTRINSIC FREQUECIES held within and on the battlements of the castle of Santa Severina in Calabria, in southern Italy.
The series is entitled “Germogli” which means “Seedlings, Buds, Shoots, or Germinations”, it captures the sense of the beginning of growth coupled with that of a change of entity, a bud becomes a flower, a nut sprouts and grows to become a tree.
Furthermore I wanted to link this action of growth, of realization, to human attitudes and characteristics, so this series is entitled according to the nature of the expansion of the geometric form and the choice of the colour that is revealed within. The colour is an entity within, as, in this case, the brushed metallic shell revals a deep midnight blue inside, as it's faces open out in a fern-like manner.
The title of this work is “Explaining Midnight”. The cut faces of the cube open out in curving movements, just as cumulus clouds grow and expand, across opposing diagonal axees. The expanding steel cube begins to reveal a dark mysterious galaxy within.
This sculpture is mounted on a stainless steel rod held in the turned plaster base housing a slow electric motor. As the sculpture rotates it expands and contracts , revealing within itself continually changing iterference patterns, a moiree effect.
