Artwork: Elvio Chiricozzi, Sky Room (La Stanza del Cielo), 2103, Castello di Rivara, Torino (mixer media on wood); Photo: Sveva Angeletti
Elvio Chiricozzi’s installation at Castello di Rivara in Torino, Sky Room (La Stanza del Cielo), 2103, is wondrous. The artist who employs a meticulous rendering of natural elements has brought the clouds, the sky, to earth. The natural elements are a metaphor for Chiricozzi into the state of being. Clouds—effervescent, changing, vaporous, compelling—and in Chiricozzi’s installation, poetic and philosophical, both subtle and powerful. Beneath our feet, reverie is not simply inspired by looking up at the sky, at a distance, it is within our reach, more tangible, more real.
The video directed by Sveva Angeletti is a riveting documentation of the installation process.