Your browser does not support the video tag.
Your browser does not support the video tag.
Marco Cadioli - The Whirlpool
  • © ARSHAKE | ISSN 2283-3676
  • CONTACT
  • Login
Arshake
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
    • All
    • focus
    • From the Past
    • Interview
    La caverna contemporanea di Miltos Manetas

    La caverna contemporanea di Miltos Manetas

    People Make Television at Raven Row

    People Make Television at Raven Row

    The Transparency of Time

    The Transparency of Time

    Un presente indicativo

    Un presente indicativo

    Abe Sugarman at Arebyte Gallery in London

    Abe Sugarman at Arebyte Gallery in London

    Tanti auguri e saluti

    Tanti auguri e saluti

    EMΣT | National Museum of Contemporary Art

    EMΣT | National Museum of Contemporary Art

    Driving Energy Terna Award 2023

    Driving Energy Terna Award 2023

    Federica Di Carlo at PostmastersROMA

    Federica Di Carlo at PostmastersROMA

  • FRAME
    FRAME > Searching for the Sky (While Maintaining Equilibrium)

    FRAME > Searching for the Sky (While Maintaining Equilibrium)

    FRAME > Nenuphar de Molitor

    FRAME > Nenuphar de Molitor

    FRAME > Mondi sommersi

    FRAME > Mondi sommersi

    FRAME > Frozen Flowers

    FRAME > Frozen Flowers

    FRAME > THE PROPHETS

    FRAME > THE PROPHETS

    FRAME > Photonic Empathy

    FRAME > Photonic Empathy

    FRAME > WoodArc

    FRAME > WoodArc

    FRAME > SWARM

    FRAME > SWARM

    FRAME > Round Balance

    FRAME > Round Balance

  • VIDEO POST
    VIDEO POST > Navigating Noise

    VIDEO POST > Navigating Noise

    VIDEO POST > Fractured

    VIDEO POST > Fractured

    VIDEO POST > Hi! I Got Hacked!

    VIDEO POST > Hi! I Got Hacked!

    VIDEO POST > Spambots

    VIDEO POST > Spambots

    VIDEO POST > Tape Pull-out Ensemble

    VIDEO POST > Tape Pull-out Ensemble

    VIDEO POST > Parallels

    VIDEO POST > Parallels

    VIDEO POST > Tales of Entropy

    VIDEO POST > Tales of Entropy

    VIDEO POST > Vague Boundaries

    VIDEO POST > Vague Boundaries

    VIDEO POST > JAZZ POP CORN

    VIDEO POST > JAZZ POP CORN

  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • GAME OVER
      • GAME OVER • Loading
      • GAME OVER • CALL FOR IDEAS (5.0)
    • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
      • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
      • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
      • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • RESOURCES
    • CALLS
    • ARCHIVE
    • ONLINE RESOUCES
  • it IT
  • en English
No Result
View All Result
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
    • All
    • focus
    • From the Past
    • Interview
    La caverna contemporanea di Miltos Manetas

    La caverna contemporanea di Miltos Manetas

    People Make Television at Raven Row

    People Make Television at Raven Row

    The Transparency of Time

    The Transparency of Time

    Un presente indicativo

    Un presente indicativo

    Abe Sugarman at Arebyte Gallery in London

    Abe Sugarman at Arebyte Gallery in London

    Tanti auguri e saluti

    Tanti auguri e saluti

    EMΣT | National Museum of Contemporary Art

    EMΣT | National Museum of Contemporary Art

    Driving Energy Terna Award 2023

    Driving Energy Terna Award 2023

    Federica Di Carlo at PostmastersROMA

    Federica Di Carlo at PostmastersROMA

  • FRAME
    FRAME > Searching for the Sky (While Maintaining Equilibrium)

    FRAME > Searching for the Sky (While Maintaining Equilibrium)

    FRAME > Nenuphar de Molitor

    FRAME > Nenuphar de Molitor

    FRAME > Mondi sommersi

    FRAME > Mondi sommersi

    FRAME > Frozen Flowers

    FRAME > Frozen Flowers

    FRAME > THE PROPHETS

    FRAME > THE PROPHETS

    FRAME > Photonic Empathy

    FRAME > Photonic Empathy

    FRAME > WoodArc

    FRAME > WoodArc

    FRAME > SWARM

    FRAME > SWARM

    FRAME > Round Balance

    FRAME > Round Balance

  • VIDEO POST
    VIDEO POST > Navigating Noise

    VIDEO POST > Navigating Noise

    VIDEO POST > Fractured

    VIDEO POST > Fractured

    VIDEO POST > Hi! I Got Hacked!

    VIDEO POST > Hi! I Got Hacked!

    VIDEO POST > Spambots

    VIDEO POST > Spambots

    VIDEO POST > Tape Pull-out Ensemble

    VIDEO POST > Tape Pull-out Ensemble

    VIDEO POST > Parallels

    VIDEO POST > Parallels

    VIDEO POST > Tales of Entropy

    VIDEO POST > Tales of Entropy

    VIDEO POST > Vague Boundaries

    VIDEO POST > Vague Boundaries

    VIDEO POST > JAZZ POP CORN

    VIDEO POST > JAZZ POP CORN

  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • GAME OVER
      • GAME OVER • Loading
      • GAME OVER • CALL FOR IDEAS (5.0)
    • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
      • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
      • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
      • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • RESOURCES
    • CALLS
    • ARCHIVE
    • ONLINE RESOUCES
No Result
View All Result
Arshake
No Result
View All Result
Home News focus

Donato Piccolo.Liquid Thoughts

Elena Giulia Rossi by Elena Giulia Rossi
06/06/2017
in focus

Natural phenomena enclosed in showcases of different shapes and sizes (designed and manufactured by the artist), returned to artificial life or materialised in the energy of the drawing, are some of the ways in which Donato Piccolo gives shape to his enduring interest in physics, in search of answers regarding the relationship between nature and fiction, man and nature, and the dynamic interplay between them. In exploring these themes, what is particularly striking is the relationship between rules and chance together with the concept of the spontaneous rupture of nature’s symmetry as outlined in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model.

It is in the force of these dynamics that the thought of Donato Piccolo meets and finds confirmation in the theories developed by Zygmunt Bauman (1925 – 2017) and his vision of a Liquid Society, which considerably anticipated the arrival of the digital era. Piccolo’s work challenges theories of physics through experiential form. In the artificial activation of natural phenomena, by entrusting these to chance and the interaction between man and the environment, by inciting endless processes of transformation from one state to another (i.e. from sound to form, from water to steam, from electricity to sound), Bauman’s theories and vision of a liquid society – ephemeral and in search of stability through unstable elements – is validated.

Mike Watson, curator of the exhibition and author of the accompanying essay, notes that: «To add a layer of complexity, in line with Nambu-Jona-Lasinio’s model of quantum field theory, Piccolo links the concept of fluidity to scientific discovery, where the natural and mathematic symmetrical decompositions do no harm to our understanding of nature but are, in fact, capable of determining new conditions, which are then assimilated by theory».

The hypnotising beauty of three tornadoes, where external sound vibrations give shape and direction to the winding of steam inside the showcase, plunges us into Bauman’s thinking from an experiential perspective. The series of drawings carried out for this exhibition pushes experience into a reflective corner, following a direct link between things, installations and drawings – between reflection and reality.

The series of drawings carried out for this exhibition reflect on Bauman’s thought by associating and superimposing citations from the philosopher’s work with images where sculptures shaped in physical space sometimes emerge, now reabsorbed in the imagined dimension of the drawing.

Donato Piccolo’s art, which has always been in tune with the concept of a liquid society, now extends to a reflection on art at large – thisis a theme cherished by Bauman, who eventually turned it into the subject for one of his essays. As a demiurge artist, Donato Piccolo places himself at a crossroads, between the philosopher and his works, between reason and experience, between order and chaos. As always, visitor is left in a privileged position.

The citations included in the drawings are actually incomplete, waiting to be expanded through the onlooker’s gaze and consciousness. With this new series of works, the exhibition continues Piccolo’s research and thought, intersecting with past work to produce new dynamics where reason and the irrepressible power of nature dissolve into  the liquid flux of events,where a tornado might suck everything and everyone into the ephemeral force of its vortex.


Donato Piccolo. Liquid Thoughts, curated by Mike Watson, Seno Gallery, Milan, 04.05 – 21.06.2017

images: (cover 1) Donato Piccolo, «The liquid state of mind», 2017, drawing on paper, 160×106 cm (2) Donato Piccolo, Il segno del mare sul cielo, 2015, drawing on paper, 82×105 cm (3) Donato Piccolo, Immateriale II, 2016, demineralized water, glass, plexiglass, ultrasound nebulizer, diachronic light, electronic phono system for modifying the digital-analogic signal  DSCN. (3) Donato Piccolo, «Trasformazione (Immateriale III)», 2017, demineralized water, glass, plexiglass,  diachronic light, electronic phono system for modifying the digital-analogic signal  DSCN  (4) Donato Piccolo, «Silencers in the sky», 2016, drawing on paper, 160×106 cm.

ShareTweetShareSend
Previous Post

Masbedo. Images to Handle With Care

Next Post

ArtFutura. Digital Creatures

Next Post

ArtFutura. Digital Creatures

CALLS

Driving Energy Terna Award 2023
Calls

Driving Energy Terna Award 2023

22/02/2023
S+T+ARTS Prize 2023
Calls

S+T+ARTS Prize 2023

04/02/2023
RE:HUMANISM Art Prize: SPARKS AND FRICTIONS
Calls

RE:HUMANISM Art Prize: SPARKS AND FRICTIONS

01/02/2023
Terna.  Driving Energy Prize
Calls

Terna. Driving Energy Prize

13/06/2022

CRITICAL GROUNDS

Critical Gounds #13 – Massimo Maiorino, The Artist as Archaeologist.
Critical Grounds

Critical Gounds #13 – Massimo Maiorino, The Artist as Archaeologist.

08/07/2020
Critical Gounds #12 – Filiberto Menna «PROGETTARE» IL FUTURO
Critical Grounds

Critical Gounds #12 – Filiberto Menna «PROGETTARE» IL FUTURO

26/11/2019
Facebook Twitter Instagram

Arshake is a collaborative artistic project, blurring the borders between art, science and technology, information and production.

  • Focus
  • Video post
  • Frame
  • Special Project
  • Interview
  • Calls
  • Exhibitions

One more step - Check your email and click the confirmation link

© 2012-2022 – ARSHAKE

No Result
View All Result
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
  • FRAME
  • VIDEO POST
  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • GAME OVER
      • GAME OVER • Loading
      • GAME OVER • CALL FOR IDEAS (5.0)
    • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
      • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
      • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
      • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • RESOURCES
    • CALLS
    • ARCHIVE
    • ONLINE RESOUCES

© 2012-2022 – ARSHAKE

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.