COSTELLAZIONE TORO – land art installation, June 15-July 14, 2013 – IV M’arte Biennale – Montegemoli (PI)

Progetto Costellazioni
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COSTELLAZIONE TORO
BULL’S CONSTELLATION
Land Art installation

Non-woven fabric, nails, corrugated plastic, nylon, LEDS
about 200 x 80 meter
2013

Land art and technology: Luca Serasini and Massimo Giannoni

Technical collaboration: Oreste and Emanuele Clamer, Ilaria Staccioli, Leila Cerri, Simona Gallerani, Graziano Ciacchini, Barbara Benincasi, Walid Mokni and Simone Felici
Drone images and video: Andrea Berton and friends

IV M’Arte – Biennale of Montegemoli – Tuscany – ITALY

A special thanks to Alessandra Ceccherini, Mirko Passera, Alviero Cucini, Giancarlo, Eleonora and Manuela from Montegemoli

This was the first experience with land art for Luca Serasini.
The Bull constellation and its brightest star, Aldebaran with the Pleiades, seem to be the oldest constellation observed by humans since the Paleolithic period and known by many peoples of the world, by Maori, Aboriginal, Chinese, Maya and Aztecs. For the Greeks were nymphs turned into doves to escape Orion’s hunting, also turned in a constellation. Aldebaran, from Arabic al-dbaran, the following, is so named because it follows the Pleiades, also called the bull’s eye.

So Luca rebuilded the constellation on the hill so that it was also visible from by the sky real constellation, like a sort of a mirror, of self-image of itself in which it may reflect as well as see itself.
Perhaps reflecting and see itself. Same thing goes for the lighting of the stars which, in the dark nights when the sky merges with the landscape, it seems to extend the sky up at down to our feet. After this, certainly it may seem superfluous to add two bull heads profiles to the installation, but I still can’t get away cannot part from a figuration of the bull for as yet I see…