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"Alberto has purchased smarthphone" is a sculpture of the "condensation dispersion of matter" cycle. This sculpture reinterprets the Alberto Giacometti's famous sculpture "L'omme qui marche- 1960" in a modern way. The human figure that Giacometti was already manipulating in order to highlight the disintegration of matter in this sculpture I bring to the limit the disintegration by inserting in the sculpture the empty. A vacuum not due to the disaggregation of matter due to the difficulty of existence, but due to the lack of aggregation of all the elements that make up a true is complete human being. This difficulty was partly due to the handheld object from the figure "smarthphone-computer". We are becoming and will become more and more an assembly of images.informations and notions coming from new technologies and we will have more voids and deficiencies (empty in sculpture). Disaggregation may be less intense as we will be completely doped by the flow of information. I have imagined this sculpture or how to make sculpture an upgrade or update derived from the fundamental lesson of Alberto Giacometti both from the point of view of the siglated and of social anthropology and the technical mode. 
This work is one of the 50 works selected for the "Welcome to the machine" exhibition held at the Turin (Italy) Polytechnic November / December 2019.
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"Alberto has purchased smarthphone" is a sculpture of the "condensation dispersion of matter" cycle. This sculpture reinterprets the Alberto Giacometti's famous sculpture "L'omme qui marche- 1960" in a modern way. The human figure that Giacometti was already manipulating in order to highlight the disintegration of matter in this sculpture I bring to the limit the disintegration by inserting in the sculpture the empty. A vacuum not due to the disaggregation of matter due to the difficulty of existence, but due to the lack of aggregation of all the elements that make up a true is complete human being. This difficulty was partly due to the handheld object from the figure "smarthphone-computer". We are becoming and will become more and more an assembly of images.informations and notions coming from new technologies and we will have more voids and deficiencies (empty in sculpture). Disaggregation may be less intense as we will be completely doped by the flow of information. I have imagined this sculpture or how to make sculpture an upgrade or update derived from the fundamental lesson of Alberto Giacometti both from the point of view of the siglated and of social anthropology and the technical mode. 
This work is one of the 50 works selected for the "Welcome to the machine" exhibition held at the Turin (Italy) Polytechnic November / December 2019.

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Michele Rizzi

Italy

Sculpture, Metal on Iron

Size: 38.2 W x 82.3 H x 12.6 D in

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"Alberto has purchased smarthphone" is a sculpture of the "condensation dispersion of matter" cycle. This sculpture reinterprets the Alberto Giacometti's famous sculpture "L'omme qui marche- 1960" in a modern way. The human figure that Giacometti was already manipulating in order to highlight the disintegration of matter in this sculpture I bring to the limit the disintegration by inserting in the sculpture the empty. A vacuum not due to the disaggregation of matter due to the difficulty of existence, but due to the lack of aggregation of all the elements that make up a true is complete human being. This difficulty was partly due to the handheld object from the figure "smarthphone-computer". We are becoming and will become more and more an assembly of images.informations and notions coming from new technologies and we will have more voids and deficiencies (empty in sculpture). Disaggregation may be less intense as we will be completely doped by the flow of information. I have imagined this sculpture or how to make sculpture an upgrade or update derived from the fundamental lesson of Alberto Giacometti both from the point of view of the siglated and of social anthropology and the technical mode. This work is one of the 50 works selected for the "Welcome to the machine" exhibition held at the Turin (Italy) Polytechnic November / December 2019.

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Metal on Iron

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38.2 W x 82.3 H x 12.6 D in

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Michele Rizzi is an Italian artist born in Turin in 1971 (he currently lives near Turin Italy) best known for sculptures "Condensation and dispersion of matter." Sculptures made with steel, wire and iron mesh, which enhance the feeling of discontinuity of matter (solids and voids). If the sculpture of the past was essentially remove excess material, this kind of sculpture is to score the material at the points established and well-measured quantity. Regarding the forms, are prevalent human figures, organic and vegetal figures (real, abstract or fantasy). who suffer from the most different influences ranging from the ancient Minoan art and African (athletic and Thin figures) to the sculptures of the last century by A. Giacometti to the latest figures pseudo alien or humanity of the future. The incompleteness and deficiencies are the added value of these jobs from which flows the perpetual fascination of the ruins and archaeological remains. The artist likes to think of the sculptures as in archaeological findings received from the distant futureand therefore at the same time have a double aesthetic value: archaic and futuristic . The heroism and courage of facing life or just living is a recurring theme in these works as well as the simple contemplation, inordinate and disproportionate individual (humanity) in the presence of the universe, time and space. He recently started a cycle of sculptures with the main material being transparent resin and vegetables and materials present in nature. Painting by Michele Rizzi follows a seemingly distinct from the sculptures but for neighboring intent and in some cases coinciding with the work in three dimensions. His painting came to degrees from a figurative painting (fantastic landscapes future) to a more abstract representation, up to an abstraction that is influenced by the painting of Gerhard Richter (physical and mechanical work on the color pulled with wooden frames) from which it deviates by rarefaction and for the insertion of figures that give more or less distinct size, depth and meaning abstraction transforming it into abstract landscape. Both (sculpture and painting by Michele Rizzi) pursue the future in the knowledge that the future is essential from the past. A sort of hole in space-time (black hole) that enables the past and the future to come in contact generating overlapping and hybridization and an infinity of shades and consequent emotions.

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