PEGASO, 10 STORIE PER 10 STELLE
PEGASUS, 10 stories for 10 stars
Interactive land art installation

Non fabric tissue, nails, aluminium, plastic, wood, batteries, timers, telephones, sensors, electronic devices
100 x 50 mt about,
2016

Land art, interactive devices and stories by Luca Serasini

English translation: Eleonora Raspi
German translation: Ursula Vetter
Voices: Walid Mokni, Marco Ricci del Mastro, Silvio Prudente, Gianni Calastri and Leila Cerri (Italian voices)
the family of Joe Sykes (Lesley, Steve, Joe and Al.) for english voices,
Ari Bracher, Dietrich Gortz, Dirk Feiertag, Frank Schatting and Lara Dubrovik (German voices).

Technical coordination: Massimo Giannoni
Technicians: Alviero Cucini, Alessio Paladini

Non-woven cut & sow: Alessandra Ceccherini, Giovanna Apicella and Giuliana Carusi
Photos by Luca Serasini, Alessandro Zangirolami and Vittorio Cucini
A big hug to Sonia Zagaglia (Proloco Montegemoli president), Ursula Vetter (Accademia Libera cultural association president), Gigi Cerri and Fulvia Fulceri
For the Municipality of Pomarance: Loris Martignoni and Ilaria Bacci

M’Arte 2016 Biennale – Montegemoli (PI) – Italy
An initiative of Pro Loco Montegemoli, in collaboration with Accademia Libera Natura e Cultura, Castello di Querceto, and with the support of the Municipality of Pomarance and Enel Green Power.

Curated by Eleonora Raspi

Luca has chosen this almost forgotten constellation with the objective to increase the level of interaction between the artwork and the visitors, but always in the field of land art.
“That’s why I’ve chosen Pegasus, the flying horse, symbol of poetical and spiritual inspiration. As almost all constellations, the name of the stars match with the body position inside the constellation, as Markab means the saddle, Enif the nose, Algenib the flank/ wing or they have poetical names as Matar, the lucky rain of shooting stars or Sirrah, the navel of the mare (but now part of Andromeda constellation)” Luca says.

These stars’s names have inspired he these brief stories in which they spoke by itself, sometimes with riddles. Visitors could listen to these stories through the telephones placed close to the most important 10 stars, which were ringing when they come closer. A sweet mode to enter into this forgotten night sky world and to keep in touch with the earth, the rain, elements not very present in our daily life.
As all of his constellation installations, the Pegasus’s stars were lit during the night, visible by Montegemoli village or walking throught the stars. This work was meant to offer, he hopes, an emotional experience, to create curiosity and some relax moments…

Click HERE to read the critical text of the curator

Sheat star (the upper arm)

SHEAT audio track (english)
From this star start, the movements
and the momentum that spreads down
to my heels both begin. To spring up,
and then the wing will do its part, the most important.
But I do not think myself
any less important,
at the service of such a fantastic animal! 
And although my hooves pierce the air rather than the ground,
I am here, fixed in the sky,
for noble reasons,
because of the soul’s creative imagination.

Text by Luca Serasini, translated by Eleonora Raspi

Click below to the preferred language of the telephone audio track of Sheat “Star”

Night view

ARTWORKS

THE VIDEO

The no-artist duo “I Santini Del Prete” was the guest for this funny videoclip:

Here some frames of the video: