CEREBRAL ASPECT, 2016
MARCO CIANFANELLI
Mild Steel
Marco Cianfanelli's previous explorations of the human form led him to examine an exploratory series of visually intriguing sculptures.
At the base of our brain, the most complex structure in the universe, is the basic mechanism by which we are held, the primal information of our sensory input being geometric abstractions. Our brains are mostly blind to raw sensory information. We symbolise and embody the human desire to identify, categorise and represent an undeniable flux of information.
Condensing the intricacy of the organ into reduced, geometric forms, then, to depict the appearance of a physicianic stone structure in its metamorphosis from permanence, duality between progress and destruction where technology transcends control in a way. More than implement, the form is an artefact of the past and is the guarantee of feature in the landscape, or an implement, it speaks to our intuition of where our hypothecates a future trajectory, it speaks to the location of our own existence, artefacts and marks our technological evolution located in our flesh and cognition, that our greatest and yet most dangerous tool is, in fact, our brain.
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