"LE NOSTRE IDEE VINCERANNO"
by Andrea Morucchio
Mocenigo Museum, Venezia 30.11 2002_06.01.2003
curated by Virginia Baradel
[video sound installation, presented for Gemine Muse Young Artists in Italian Museum]
Le Nostre Idee Vinceranno (Our Ideas Will Triumph) ia a visual sound installation incorporating digital enhanced video projections developed from photos of the painting Naval Battle and Luigi Nono musical score Il Canto Sospeso. The video has been projected in loop on the wall at the upper corner of the painting in the Museum Red Room. A cyan light was projected on the painting. Presented as part of Gemine Muse 2002 Young Artists in Italian Museums
Following the directions of the Gemine Muse exhibition project, I identified the work I was to be challanged by in the Mocenigo Museum: the painting is referred to as Naval Battle, by anonymous. The painting celebrates the heroic act of the Ship Captain Zaccaria Mocenigo who, during a naval battle, did not hesitate to blow up his ship and sacrifice his own life as well as that of some of his crew rather than surrender to the enemy. The drama of the ultimate sacrifice, that of the martyr, of sacrificing oneself for an ideal, is what led me to take on this painting through an approach aimed at exasperating its celebratory rhetoric, on the very account of its sadly extreme topicality.
Le Nostre Idee Vinceranno consists of the atmosphere that the interaction between the painting, the XVIII Century museum space, the music and the video images succeeds in creating thus emotionally involving the visitor in order to subsequently trigger his reflexion on a phenomenon which is dramatically and tragically very relevant today as well as on the ambiguity of the rhetoric celebrating it.
The video projection: on the wall, at the upper corners of the painting, images of the hovering bodies of the explosion victims are projected. These images, removed from their pictorial context, undergo a major transformation: hugely blown out, colourless, transparent and barely defined, they fluctuate in postures highly charged with formal tension albeit voided of any physicality. As they pulsate, the images gradually become visible to dissolve again amongst the lilies of the brocade on which they are projected thanks to a montage which, frame by frame, modifies their grey tones. That same lily pattern is also the "backdrop" of the video which, by means of the single special effect used, appears to be moving constantly and regularly "wavelike", like a metronome marking the time constantly and inexorably on the martyrs' apparitions.
The music: the images appear, disappear, alternate following the rhythm set by the chorus of Luigi Nono's Il Canto Sospeso. The choice of this music has not had simply to do with the formal suggestive strength of the composition but also with the words sung by the choir and taken from a letter written by a condemned during the Resistance to Nazifascism: "....I am dying for a world that will shine with so much light with such beauty that even my sacrifice is nothing in itself. Millions of men died for this world on barricades and in wars. I am dying for justice. Our ideas will triumph ...". This text has been published on postcards placed in all the Museum spaces. It is awesome to realize how such words have forever accompanied the history of mankind and even more so how these expressions can be adapted to the most diverse subjects up to, in particular, today's dramas.
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