Welcome to Someday, 2019

A solid steel structure supporting mirror-surface letters that glow along their edges by means of an LED lighting apparatus controlled by a timer.

Courtesy of the artists

Work produced by the Giovanardi Corporation

Photographic credits:  Andrea Rossetti, Fosca Piccinelli

Artist
Marotta & Russo
Materials
Steel, LED
Dimensions
700 x h 200 cm
Summary

For the artistic duo Marotta & Russo, the project and the work that sprang from it represent a many-layered challenge of stratification and of movement between the lyrical and the surgical:  idea, temperature, technique, poetics, materials, process, geography, spirit of a place, aesthetics. Welcome to Someday is an ambiguous and disorienting name, in precarious balance between the certain and the uncertain, but for this very reason inevitably pushed up the courageous and always unpredictable slope of research and experimentation. The installation becomes an integral part of the location in which it is

placed, the spirit of the place, a promise anchored in the past, and, for this reason, capable of becoming unbalanced with force and initiative toward somewhere else. A site-specific work as well as an essential symbol of the duo’s poetics, Welcome to Someday was born from the ‘here and now’, planned for Giovanardi and intended to be replicated in an infinite number of desirable variations. The Giovanardi Corporation could place the work only on its highest rooftop, mirroring, atop the wall, all the possibilities of the shimmering sky, raised in a salute.

Technical specifications:

Structure in steel, welded and covered with an epoxy powder coating. Supermirror letters cut with a laser. LED lighting controlled by a timer and incorporated into opal methacrylate.

Dimensions: 700 x h 200 cm

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Welcome to Someday, 2019

A solid steel structure supporting mirror-surface letters that glow along their edges by means of an LED lighting apparatus controlled by a timer.

Courtesy of the artists

Work produced by the Giovanardi Corporation

Photographic credits:  Andrea Rossetti, Fosca Piccinelli

Welcome to Someday, 2019

A solid steel structure supporting mirror-surface letters that glow along their edges by means of an LED lighting apparatus controlled by a timer.

Courtesy of the artists

Work produced by the Giovanardi Corporation

Photographic credits:  Andrea Rossetti, Fosca Piccinelli