Gino De Dominicis alla Biennale di Venezia del 1972

un caso di studio sull’immortalità e sulle sue soluzioni

Eleonora CharansPh.D. , Politecnico di Milano

eleonora.charans@gmail.com

Gino De Dominicis, Calamita Cosmica, 1990 ca., ingresso del MAXXI, Roma maggio 2010

Gino De Dominicis, Opera non titolata, 1962, matite colorate su carta, 95 x 72 cm, collezione privata, cat. rag. n.1.

Gino De Dominicis, Donna allo specchio, 1965-66, pastelli a cera e china su carta incollata su tavola, 98 x 75,5 cm, Coll. Luigi Koelliker (Milano), cat. rag. n. 25.

I cavalli di Jannis Kounellis entrano negli spazi della galleria, autunno 1969

Gino De Dominicis, Mozzarella in carrozza, 1968-69, carrozza d’epoca, mozzarella, cartellino, presso galleria L’Attico, Roma

Gino De Dominicis, Lo Zodiaco, 1970, presso galleria L’Attico, Roma

Gino De Dominicis, Gino De Dominicis a Venezia 1972, 1992, tecnica mista su vetro, 42 x 37 cm, Coll. Luigi Koelliker (Milano), cat. rag. n. 430.

“ (…) the installation comprises a person affected by Down’s Syndrome seated in a chair, gazing at a beach ball and a rock placed on the ground before him. Each of these components have their own extremely long titles: the beach ball is Rubber Ball (fallen from a height of two meters) at the instant immediately prior to its rebound, while the rock is titled Waiting for a general random molecular movement in a single direction to generate spontaneous movement of the material. In addition to these object, an Invisible Cube is placed in front of the seated performer. (...) De Dominicis once observed that a person with Down’s Syndrome ‘was to be interpreted as a different state of being’. (…) The work stages two irreconcialable types of vision and consciousness: the gaze of the performer with Down’s Syndrome, and the gaze of those who look at him. This reading is reinforced by the one official photograph of this performance, in which we see a viewer (…).”

C. Bishop, Artificial Hells, 2012

(...) the performance of a person who was supposed to be only one element among many

exhibited in the exhibition (...)

while the idea of the show was none other than a reflection on

certain human conditions such as old age, the deterioration of the body, illness, and death (...)

De Dominicis, 1972

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Gino De Dominicis, Senza titolo, 1996,foglia dorata su fotografia, 99 x 99 cm

Particolare della Foto ricordo ingrandito ed esposto dall’artista a Palazzo Ducale, Venezia 1995