| Materials |
brass and magnet |
| Height: | cm. 135.00 |
Historical Collection
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Gino de Dominicis
Asta In Equilibrio
1970
Courtesy :
Private collection, Milan
On display from 2005 to 2011
This work, which consists of a perfectly verticle simple brass rod balancing on its tip, was shown for the first time in 1969 in Rome, at Fabio Sargentini’s Galleria l’Attico, together with other works whose features were also those of invisibility, balance and the suspension of space and time. From the time of this first show in Rome – on the occasion of which he had a funeral announcement printed informing everyone of his officially registered death – De Dominicis was in search of the origins of life and reflections upon it, as understood in its opposite poles of transeunt and transcendent, of earthly existence and of the conquest of a higher plane of awareness (which was also evoked by the use of symbolic colours like blue and, in this case, gold), as well as of the dynamic intertwining of ascending and descending forms of archaic oriental origin. In synthesizing human aspiration towards immortality, De Dominicis said that «to exist truly we should stop in time». And it is exactly this that he seeks to achieve in this work, which is made using untraditional, minimal means, the going beyond space and time, the perception of a alienating revelation.
Once a work is completed, it must impress me and compensate for the energy I spent to make it. Such a work can be defined as “anti-entropic”, and contradicts the ...
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