Enrico Tommaso de Paris
CHROMOSOMA
8 June – 23 July 2005
Spazio Thetis-Arsnale Novissimo
Castello 2737/f
Venice
(vaporetto actv 41 from San Zaccaria, stop: Bacini)
from 10 to 18.30
free entrance
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This exhibition is promoted by Thetis – Spa, a transport, and environmental and civil engineering company that operates on a national and international scale with numerous projects linked to innovation and environmental technologies. Since its opening at the historic Arsenale in Venice, Thetis, believing in the strong connection between technological innovation and art experimentation, has always promoted contemporary art.
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Irony and freedom of expression lead Enrico T. De Paris to cross the limits of reality and to carry the spectator within the human DNA, metaphorically composed of huge steel chromosomes. Here, test tubes and chemical laboratory reactors, impressive shapes of blown glass, various objects, lights, audio and videos ( by Luca Bich and Jean-Claude Oberto, Mauro Calvone, Alberto Colombo and Enrico T. De Paris) all come together and interact. A path that leads to countless parallel microcosms, miniature floating communities, where animals and beings float in seas of coloured silicone, brief moments that man can observe in order to reflect on himself, symbols of a hyperbiotechnologic and hyperelettronic society. The human being becomes actor and spectator of a complex, ironic and paradoxical adventure.
The exhibition catalogue, edited by Cluster, is also distributed as a special project together with the 05/Città issue of the Cluster on innovation magazine, with a critical text by Alessandro Riva, an interview by Anna dAgostino, a statement of the artist, essays by the physic Vittorio Del Duca, the biologist Francesca Ceradini, the historian Anthony Marasco and poetic reports by the poet Jean-Claude Oberto.
The exhibition is organised thanks to the contribution of Regione Piemonte and the support of the Ermanno Tedeschi gallery in Turin and the Traghetto gallery in Venice.
catalogue: Cluster edizioni – Turin, www.progettocluster.com PRESS OFFICE >CHROMOSOMA
Ermanno Tedeschi gallery – Torino tel 39 011 4369917 e.mail info@etgallery.it
Galleria traghetto Venezia tel 39 041 5221188 e.mail galleria.traghetto@tin.it
