Gotika @Contemporary Cluster, Rome
Illustration, Contemporary Art
Studio Nucleo, 2020
Unique piece—printed and embroidered vintage linen cloth, made in collaboration with Piergiorgio Robino (Studio Nucleo) and Simone Mussat Sartor (Born in Berlin). Exhibited at Contemporary Cluster - indipendent art gallery in Rome, Italy - during the group exhibition “Particolare di Paesaggio”, December 2020.
The textile features a mirrored print of Nucleo’s Emerald Stone Fossil, an existing work produced in 2017, overlaid with two wreaths made up of portraits of Roman icons in the cinematic and political tradition: brothers Sergio and Franco Citti and partisan Paolo Morettini. The portraits are variations on the work of local street artist Diavù, who produces murals that interrupt the urban landscape.
The wreaths, embroidered by Simone Mussat Sartor (Co-founder of Born In Berlin and previously Mario Merz's assistant), have symmetric patterns inspired by the integral role symmetry plays in human culture. The theme of symmetry has long fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and physicists as well as artists, designers, and architects for reasons still discussed to this day.
Studio Nucleo’s fascination with symmetry came from an observation of the mirrored patterns found in open vein marble, which led principal designer Piergiorgio Robino to consider the symmetry present in various religious traditions. “This striving for symmetry in Gothic cathedral’s ribbed vault ceilings and rose windows for example, remind me of the configuration of symbols in mandalas in religions like Buddhism and Hinduism,” says Robino. “Symmetry, harmony and religion in these great traditions go hand in hand, as though this mathematical perfection represents a kind of sacred order or cosmic ideal.”
The group exhibition is named “Particolare di Paesaggio,” after a series of work by the painter Mario Schifano (1934-1998), and features Studio Nucleo’s contributions alongside the work of artists, designers and artisans such as Raffaele Milazzo and Federika Fumarola.
︎Contemporary Cluster - Rome, Italy
︎in collaboraton with: Piergiorgio Robino (Studio Nucleo), Simone Mussat Sartor (Born In Berlin)
︎ Pictures by: PEPE fotografia
The textile features a mirrored print of Nucleo’s Emerald Stone Fossil, an existing work produced in 2017, overlaid with two wreaths made up of portraits of Roman icons in the cinematic and political tradition: brothers Sergio and Franco Citti and partisan Paolo Morettini. The portraits are variations on the work of local street artist Diavù, who produces murals that interrupt the urban landscape.
The wreaths, embroidered by Simone Mussat Sartor (Co-founder of Born In Berlin and previously Mario Merz's assistant), have symmetric patterns inspired by the integral role symmetry plays in human culture. The theme of symmetry has long fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and physicists as well as artists, designers, and architects for reasons still discussed to this day.
Studio Nucleo’s fascination with symmetry came from an observation of the mirrored patterns found in open vein marble, which led principal designer Piergiorgio Robino to consider the symmetry present in various religious traditions. “This striving for symmetry in Gothic cathedral’s ribbed vault ceilings and rose windows for example, remind me of the configuration of symbols in mandalas in religions like Buddhism and Hinduism,” says Robino. “Symmetry, harmony and religion in these great traditions go hand in hand, as though this mathematical perfection represents a kind of sacred order or cosmic ideal.”
The group exhibition is named “Particolare di Paesaggio,” after a series of work by the painter Mario Schifano (1934-1998), and features Studio Nucleo’s contributions alongside the work of artists, designers and artisans such as Raffaele Milazzo and Federika Fumarola.
︎Contemporary Cluster - Rome, Italy
︎in collaboraton with: Piergiorgio Robino (Studio Nucleo), Simone Mussat Sartor (Born In Berlin)
︎ Pictures by: PEPE fotografia
