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25/9/2007

Franco Angeloni

National Museum Lapidarium Narodniho Muzea, Prague

Corruptibilis Hominis 2 - River bank

During this second edition of TINA B. 2007 Art Festival in Prague, ''Corruptibilis Hominis 2'' . ''River Bank'' is a sound & light installation work by Amsterdam-based artist Franco Angeloni. As an inventor and producer of rather intriguing and history-related works, with this newly devised ''spatial object'' Angeloni revives the story of a remarkable figure from the Czech medieval times, Duke (Saint) Wenceslaus, and he does so only in order to make a point on the filthiness of politics and its protagonists thru history up to the present times. When the economic powers and the preservation of influence and hegemony of a man, a country, a continent over his neighbors becomes a childish-like game rather than a commitment to the perfecting of democracy and the achievement of more human equality and wealth, then we realize how little has changed in the nature of mankind from his appearance onto this planet.

In the light of such evidence, the elements with which this installation has been developed – laser-perforated aluminum plates, t-l neon tubes, nylon lines, rotating electric engines, 1 Euro coin - serve as a game-machine for the onlooker to visually play with the ideas behind this work. Thanks to a very straightforward message(text) that reveals itself on the top of the laser-perforated metal plate, inevitable for the viewer is to interpret this work as a sound yet not moralistic critic to the most wicked of human attitudes… The texts and the coin, randomly dancing on the plates, ironically enact the never-ending show of the modern man dealing with his sense of guilt and/or of acceptance of his own well-known and fundamentally corruptible character.

There is nothing more painful for one to realize how little has changed in the mind of that “fragile man” that once in the past successfully managed to superimpose his presence on the earth and, what’s worse, on the expenses of other creatures, …often on the expenses of his own kinds.

(®2007 R.A. Musumeci on this work: “…The title of the artwork is on a aluminum plate, lying on the floor. In fact, it appears to have fallen onto the floor, as the remains of the cords by which it was once held are still in place…But where had it hung? — in another, perhaps divine, world, though as imperfect as the human one. A telling proclamation of the universality of evil, in the specific form of corruption, its symbol and tool — a 1 Euro coin — dances over the plate, and resounds in the space while the all setting is illuminated by a chilling neon-light. The whole underlines a critical judgment, though one that is far from radical, but more understanding, mildly cynical: since defectiveness and guilt are human qualities, men should try to come to terms with their nature as peacefully as possible...”)

National Museum Lapidarium Narodního Muzea
Vaclavske namestí 68 - Prague

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