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© 2021 by Paolo Aldi
© 2021 by Paolo Aldi
Box Notes - Insights
Box notes are wooden boxes that contain inside them small photographs, transparencies, or objects. Everything is expressed in the form of visual notes that imply thoughts, emotions, and connections tied to a specific theme. There are always steel rods present that hold the "notes" suspended and lenses that you need to bring your eye close to, revealing a surprise placed behind them. The shadows on the background, cast by the steel rods and the suspended elements, are a compositional moment that changes with the incidence of light. These same shadows are a two-dimensional reality of the projection of a three-dimensional reality. They are like our thoughts that
we consider something concrete when instead it is pure intangible speculation that must be brought to become something concrete in a dimension other than its own.
Echo and Narcissus
Work winner of the unique international IVYnode Award of 2018. It is inspired by the myth of Echo and Narcissus, represented by a photo of a woman from my Simo cycle, by the drawing of a narcissus flower, and by a series of mirrors that reflect the image of the people looking at the box notes. Behind the lens, the essence of Narcissus.
34x44
34x44 are the dimensions of the box and in numerology represent balance and the absolute. 34x44 contains the works of some of my spiritual fathers: the photo of White on White by Malevich, the score of 3’44” (Silence) by John Cage, and the drawing of a choreography by Merce Cunningham. For each of them, these works represent the traces of their search for balance and the absolute.
Ophthalmologist testimony
This box is part of my 2017 operation Aromatic homage to Marcel Duchamp on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the exhibition of the ready-made Fountain. It is a testimony. A black and white negative that is a trace of the past: it portrays the bidets and toilets of the installation inside which aromatic herbs are grown. A bag of dried aromatic herbs. A lens that forces you to bring your eye closer to see the small color photograph behind it magnified.
The end of the world
Dedicated to the risk of the end of the world caused by humans. It shows a negative of Wrath, a myth that is part of my work Bellum; the clock through which an international commission of scientists shows each year how close the end of the world might be based on current armaments and risks of war; the Apocalypse by Albrecht Durer. Behind the lens, a surprise.
