ELASTIC Group of Artistic Research - THE NIGHT WATCHMEN (Public Art)

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In the video installation The Night Watchmen, a multitude of nocturnal faces embedded on the circularity of the BramanteTemple (The Tempietto) look at and look for the wandering visitors: 24 videocreatures, contemporary sibiles, splitting like Jano, the roman god, watchmen of the universe with a double profil that links knowledge of the past and intuition of the future. The ancient columns of stone of the Bramante Temple interlocked with the video columns designed by Elastic group give birth to a new skin, a digital renaissance. It's the first time that a group of contemporary artists create a video installation site specific using the monument emblematic of italian renaissance architecture setting 12 video columns with 24 video portraits on plasma monitors 60' in between the ancient colonnade.

The Bramante's Tempietto
For Pope Julius II, almost as if it were a trial piece on approval, Bramante designed one of the most harmonious buildings of the Renaissance: the Tempietto (1502) of San Pietro in Montorio on the Janiculum. The church was commissioned by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, and marks the spot in Rome where, according to tradition, Saint Peter was crucified. With all the transformations of Renaissance and Baroque Rome that were to follow, it is hard to sense now what an apparition this building was in 1502. It is almost a piece of sculpture, for it has little architectonic use, like a banquet table centerpiece made large. Despite its small scale the construction has all the grandeur and rigorous conformity of a Classical building. Perfectly proportioned, it is surrounded by slender Tuscan columns and surmounted by a dome. Bramante planned to set it in within a colonnaded courtyard to complete the scenery, but larger plans were afoot. Within a year of its completion, in November 1503, Julius engaged Bramante on the construction of the grandest architectural commission of the European 16th century, the complete re-building of St Peter's Basilica.

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