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Paolo Chiasera
The artist will present in Bologna the central chapter of his video trilogy dedicated to three great artists of the past: Vincent Van Gogh, Cornelius Escher and Pieter Brueghel. In the video under the title The Trilogy: CORNELIUS, Chiasera wears both the mask and clothing of Cornelius Escher, as he enters a lighting coffin built using installation materials available at the museum (the GAM) and he crosses a mountain of wood (the one created by the Austrian artist Hans Schabus for last year's Venice Biennial, Das Letze Land - The Last Land, 2005), only to reappear on the metallic roof of another museum building (the MARTa Herford, Herford).
An apparently circular and unproductive journey which serves to highlight both the physical and metaphorical space of the museum, just like the underlying double layer (based on trust/mistrust, critique/narrative) on which he operates. The artist decides to show the process of the work's development, almost step by step, inviting total public participation up to the point that the museum itself is transformed into his own studio. Here, he stages the possible scenarios of an adventurous journey around the boundaries of the museum itself.
Paolo Chiasera
