COSTA VECE.GALLERIA FRANCO NOERO For his first solo show in Italy, Swiss artist Costa Vece filled the gallery's two adjoining rooms with a single military tent, which one penetrated on entering from the street and exited directly into the building's interior courtyard. The installation was entitled Bomb No.5, 2000, and all the materials jammed into the tent alluded to the danger of an imminent explosion. Cans, crates Crates (krā`tēz), fl. 449 B.C., Athenian comic dramatist. He is said to have introduced into comedy themes other than those of personal satire, and he was one of the first to show the comic possibilities of the drunkard. , and all kinds of military paraphernalia PARAPHERNALIA. The name given to all such things as a woman has a right to retain as her own property, after her husband's death; they consist generally of her clothing, jewels, and ornaments suitable to her condition, which she used personally during his life. evoked wartime scenarios, while small monitors transmitted images of countdowns and other visual signals. The video images repeated cyclically--a continuous extension in time of the threatened event--in a chaotic simultaneity of visual impulses, including intermittent lights and sounds made disturbing by their repetition. The entire installation then concluded with the calming view of the interior courtyard, where viewers terminated their brief journey. The video images were taken from Hollywood war films, for the artist is interested not in constructing a realistic environment, but rather in adopting devices that can be employed to create an effect, a sensation akin to the suspense and expectation of violent acts. Vece worked to similar effect in Videolounge, 1998, a piece exhibited at the last Venice Biennale Venice Biennale International art exhibition held in the Castello district of Venice every two years and juried by an international committee. It was founded in 1895 as the International Exhibition of Art of the City of Venice to promote “the most noble activities of , where, inside a space constructed out of cardboard boxes cardboard box n → caja de cartón cardboard box n → (boîte f en) carton m cardboard box card n → , through numerous monitors and, again, media images, one experienced the explosions at which this Turin show only hinted. Vece's work seems to operate in terms of a comparison with reality, which it imitates through spectacle, like a mirror image. Though the large tent and the sham devices that filled it could be seen as enlarged toys, almost like the dream of a megalomaniacal meg·a·lo·ma·ni·a n. 1. A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence. 2. An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions. boy, the actual truth of war found there an unexpectedly significant representation. Indeed, if there is anything that has become removed from the realm of real experience, Vece seems to imply, it is precisely the act of making war. It's been replaced by computer operations that can barely be differentiated from simulations, and it is no accident that the term "war game" has come to designate, without distinction, both the technological play of adolescents and real warlike war·like adj. 1. Belligerent; hostile. 2. a. Of or relating to war; martial. b. Indicative of or threatening war. warlike Adjective 1. exercises--a situation that allowed Baudrillard to state that the Gulf War did not take place. Translated from Italian by Marguerite Marguerite, for French women thus named, use Margaret Marguerite. For French women thus named, use Margaret. marguerite, in botany marguerite: see daisy. Shore. |
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