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Baalbeck BY Roberto Sironi
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Baalbeck
The anthropologist Marc Augè wrote in Le temps en ruines, 2003: “Their incompleteness contains a promise. The feeling of passing time […] a sense of time that is even more stimulating and exciting because it is irreducible to history, awareness of lack, expression of absence, pure desire”.
Ruins by Roberto Sironi is a series of works that re-signify architectural fragments belonging to different historical periods and great archaeological sites, modelling the forms according to new aesthetic representations. The project relates constructive elements of the classical era, such as bases of columns, capitals, sections of an amphitheatre, with rudiments of the industrial era, such as the double-T beams and the reticular structural elements. Parts belonging to the industrial era are transposed into bronze. Elements referring to the classical era are made in Marmo Artificiale di Rima, a simulation of natural marble.
Roberto Sironi elaborates on the concept of ruins according to a new perspective. Conceived as contemporary ruins, imaginary simulacra and/or programmed artifices – the materials and techniques of execution do not correspond to the original. The work shows how different fragments of architectural remains can be overlaid and re-signified, resetting the temporal distances and suspending the notion time.
in / 15H x 28W x 42L
cm / 36H x 70W x 105L