O, B, A, F, G, K, M, 2024
1 - 20, O, B, A, F, G, K, M, installation view, Casa Spadafora, Bolzano, IT, 2024. Ph: Tiberio Sorvillo
O, B, A, F, G, K, M, 2024
Silvia Hell
27.09.24 – 05.10.24
Casa Spadafora, Via dei Portici 48a Bolzano/Bozen
in collaboration with BAW24 - Bolzano Art Weeks
curated by CUT
The cycle of works O, B, A, F, G, K, M (after the system developed by US astronomer Annie Jump Cannon) represents an investigation into cosmology that reflects the human desire to broaden our knowledge of the universe, coming up against the limits of systems for the measuring and recording of reality.
Spectroscopy data of stars and galaxies collected by the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) were translated into three-dimensional digital models by the artist before being printed onto polymethylmethacrylate plates with various different perspective views.
Axonometric and orthogonal views of the spectra are presented with a background colour that corresponds to that of the stellar class of reference, providing information on their evolutionary age: from the youngest (blue) to those mid-cycle (yellow) to the oldest at the end of their life (red).
These slabs, combined with a number of iron girders elaborated by the artist and found in Casa Spadafora – a building under renovation in the historic centre of Bolzano that is hosting the exhibition – take on sculptural configurations reflecting the architecture of the venue.
