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Spazio Thetis: Enrico Tommaso De Paris >CHROMOSOMA< 8th June - 23rd July 2005
>CHROMOSOMA< is the name of the project Enrico T. De Paris (Mel - Belluno, 1960) has devised for the Spazio Thetis at the Arsenale Novissimo in Venice, as part of the collateral events of the 51st Venice Art Biennial.
The >CHROMOSOMA< installation is set up in the sixteenth century area of the Arsenale in a building which stretches out over more than 1,000 square metres. It consists in four large steel wire structures, each of which is approximately eight metres long, and developed using various kinds of materials, such as blown glass, silicon, PVC, monitors, videos, light and sound.
The promoting body for this exhibition is Thetis Spa, a civil environmental engineering and transportation company active both nationally and internationally with a wide range of projects linked to innovation and environmental technologies. Thetis has promoted the development of contemporary art since it opened in the historical Arsenale in Venice, as it believes in the development of technological innovation within experimental art.
">CHROMOSOMA< - explains the artist - is a three-dimensional, poetic display of one of the most important biological elements of our body, where the lives of human beings develop both temporally and structurally, through their active and passive genes. Memories of our ancestors (DNA) and contingent factors thus create the man of the future."
Irony and freedom of expression have led E. T. De Paris to go beyond the limits of the real world and lead observers into human DNA, metaphorically formed using huge steel chromosomes, where bottles and reactors from chemical laboratories interact with attractive blown glass shapes, various objects, lights, videos (of Luca Bich and Jean-Claude Oberto, Mauro Calvone, Alberto Colombo, E.T. De Paris and Simone Muscolino) and different sounds. A route revealing countless parallel microcosms, minute fluttering communities where animals and human beings float in seas of coloured silicone, brief moments man can observe in order to reflect upon himself, symbols of a hyper-biotechnological and hyper-electronic society. Human beings become both actors and spectators of a complex, ironic, bizarre event.
The catalogue for the exhibition, produced by Cluster Edizioni, is also linked to Issue 05 / Città of the magazine Cluster on innovation as a special project. It contains a critical text written by Alessandro Riva, an interview with Anna d’Agostino, a statement from the artist, essays by physicist Vittorio Del Duca, biologist Francesca Ceradini, historian Anthony Marasco and “poetic reports” by poet Jean-Claude Oberto.
The exhibition would not have been possible without the contribution of the Regional Offices of Piedmont and the support of the Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery in Turin and the Galleria Traghetto in Venezia.
Information about the exhibition: Enrico Tommaso De Paris >CHROMOSOMA<
Spazio Thetis Arsenale Novissimo
Castello 2737/f, Venezia (actv 41 steamboat from San Zaccaria, Bacini stop)
8th June - 23rd July 2005, 10.00 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.
free entry - closed Mondays
catalogue: Cluster Edizioni - Turin, www.progettocluster.com
Press Office: >CHROMOSOMA<, Ilaria Gianoli, e.mail , tel. 333- 6317344
Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery - Turin tel. 011 4369917 e.mail:
Galleria Traghetto - Venice tel. 041 5221188 e.mail:
At the address www.studioargento.com/chromosoma/ the installation set up in Spazio Thetis is visible.
The >CHROMOSOMA< installation is set up in the sixteenth century area of the Arsenale in a building which stretches out over more than 1,000 square metres. It consists in four large steel wire structures, each of which is approximately eight metres long, and developed using various kinds of materials, such as blown glass, silicon, PVC, monitors, videos, light and sound.
The promoting body for this exhibition is Thetis Spa, a civil environmental engineering and transportation company active both nationally and internationally with a wide range of projects linked to innovation and environmental technologies. Thetis has promoted the development of contemporary art since it opened in the historical Arsenale in Venice, as it believes in the development of technological innovation within experimental art.
">CHROMOSOMA< - explains the artist - is a three-dimensional, poetic display of one of the most important biological elements of our body, where the lives of human beings develop both temporally and structurally, through their active and passive genes. Memories of our ancestors (DNA) and contingent factors thus create the man of the future."
Irony and freedom of expression have led E. T. De Paris to go beyond the limits of the real world and lead observers into human DNA, metaphorically formed using huge steel chromosomes, where bottles and reactors from chemical laboratories interact with attractive blown glass shapes, various objects, lights, videos (of Luca Bich and Jean-Claude Oberto, Mauro Calvone, Alberto Colombo, E.T. De Paris and Simone Muscolino) and different sounds. A route revealing countless parallel microcosms, minute fluttering communities where animals and human beings float in seas of coloured silicone, brief moments man can observe in order to reflect upon himself, symbols of a hyper-biotechnological and hyper-electronic society. Human beings become both actors and spectators of a complex, ironic, bizarre event.
The catalogue for the exhibition, produced by Cluster Edizioni, is also linked to Issue 05 / Città of the magazine Cluster on innovation as a special project. It contains a critical text written by Alessandro Riva, an interview with Anna d’Agostino, a statement from the artist, essays by physicist Vittorio Del Duca, biologist Francesca Ceradini, historian Anthony Marasco and “poetic reports” by poet Jean-Claude Oberto.
The exhibition would not have been possible without the contribution of the Regional Offices of Piedmont and the support of the Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery in Turin and the Galleria Traghetto in Venezia.
Information about the exhibition: Enrico Tommaso De Paris >CHROMOSOMA<
Spazio Thetis Arsenale Novissimo
Castello 2737/f, Venezia (actv 41 steamboat from San Zaccaria, Bacini stop)
8th June - 23rd July 2005, 10.00 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.
free entry - closed Mondays
catalogue: Cluster Edizioni - Turin, www.progettocluster.com
Press Office: >CHROMOSOMA<, Ilaria Gianoli, e.mail , tel. 333- 6317344
Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery - Turin tel. 011 4369917 e.mail:
Galleria Traghetto - Venice tel. 041 5221188 e.mail:
At the address www.studioargento.com/chromosoma/ the installation set up in Spazio Thetis is visible.
