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拍品专文
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'I, the world, things, life, we are situations of energy and the important thing is precisely not to crystallized these situations, but keep them open and alive in terms of our living. Since all manners of thinking or being must correspond to a manner of behaving, my works are really the physification (sic) of the force behind an action, of the energy of a situation or event etc. and not its experience in terms of annotated signs, or just still life.' (Anselmo, 'I, The World, Things, Life' in G. Celant Arte Povera, New York, 1969, p. 109).
A series of granite blocks set in alignment to the North pole of the planet in accordance with the direction of a compass needle embedded within them, Giovanni Anselmo's Direzione (Direction) sculptures are a major series of works made between 1967 and 1968 at the height of the artist's involvement with Arte Povera. Solid, rough-hewn blocks of stone, they are among the first major series of creations that Anselmo made in the wake of the epiphany he experienced in 1965 while climbing the volcano Stromboli where he discovered at sunrise that the rising sun, below the horizon line of the volcano had cast his shadow into the apparent infinity of the sky. This elemental transfiguration of the artist's usually earthbound presence (in the form of his shadow) into the infinity of space awoke in Anselmo a sense of responsibility towards making works of art in accordance with the vast, eternal and unseen physical and elemental laws of the universe.
'I, the world, things, life, we are situations of energy and the important thing is precisely not to crystallized these situations, but keep them open and alive in terms of our living. Since all manners of thinking or being must correspond to a manner of behaving, my works are really the physification (sic) of the force behind an action, of the energy of a situation or event etc. and not its experience in terms of annotated signs, or just still life.' (Anselmo, 'I, The World, Things, Life' in G. Celant Arte Povera, New York, 1969, p. 109).
A series of granite blocks set in alignment to the North pole of the planet in accordance with the direction of a compass needle embedded within them, Giovanni Anselmo's Direzione (Direction) sculptures are a major series of works made between 1967 and 1968 at the height of the artist's involvement with Arte Povera. Solid, rough-hewn blocks of stone, they are among the first major series of creations that Anselmo made in the wake of the epiphany he experienced in 1965 while climbing the volcano Stromboli where he discovered at sunrise that the rising sun, below the horizon line of the volcano had cast his shadow into the apparent infinity of the sky. This elemental transfiguration of the artist's usually earthbound presence (in the form of his shadow) into the infinity of space awoke in Anselmo a sense of responsibility towards making works of art in accordance with the vast, eternal and unseen physical and elemental laws of the universe.