2011
Installation
Demolition rubble: grit from bricks, concrete, plaster, asphalt, sand.
50x400x75 cm
Industrial Heritage Museum – Galotti Brick Kiln, Bologna.
> Museum of Industrial Heritage – Fornace Galotti, Bologna.
The idea behind this work is developed in relation to the hosting space: a former brick kiln in the Galotti industrial site, currently home to the Industrial Heritage Museum in Bologna.
The attention is focused on a demolition rubble dump along the side of the museum, where, such debris covers the landscape. The materials used to build the city, bricks, concrete, plaster, asphalt, and sand, here crumble away as time goes by, and become a waste product, providing a source to create a work on the disintegration of matter and the production of a landscape. These materials were removed at their most advanced state of decomposition – powder – and taken back to the production site – the former brick kiln. A selection and reappraisal of that “removed” from the city. The powder was displayed on a table, divided by quality, to re-elaborate a landscape.
The work is a reflection on the transformation processes of the territory and of the materials themselves, from production to consumption, construction, and destruction.
