HARDWARE SOFTCORE Installation / Gabriele Falconi

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The HARDWARE SOFTCORE Installation, designed by Gabriele Falconi, is directed to the interaction of the viewer, to his involvement, even physical, as an actor aware of choices and paths. Of monumental size, its modular installation was born from the idea of using the standard scaffolding system, which is made of shiny galvanized steel, repeating and assembling in vertical and horizontal direction.“The use of construction element, the simplest, declined to unusual, different, ambiguous shapes. For a skeleton of a large lizard, a cathedral with many naves, an interstellar starship. All that is involved here is multiple and transforms itself, starting from temporary basis to monumental forms, contradicting its premises. And finding its attractive side in construction hardware.” – Falconi. More images and architects’ description after the break.

The result is a post-modern ephemeral monument, where metal ganglia draw unusual shapes, sometimes massive like erected walls, sometimes articulated in thin silhouettes; the work “devours” space and rejects another, in a sprawling and impressive dispose of portals, horizontal currents, diagonals, gravel guards and guard rails, base plates: metallic elements that form a single body that has enormous skeleton, limbs and a beating heart, the true center of the installation. The stage has been “inhabited” during the Festival with music and art performances, involving the public and has been subject to a special photography workshop, open to all, coordinated by Paola Cavalli, teacher in Photographic Technique at LABA.

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Architect: Gabriele Falconi Location: Castello di Brescia, Brescia, Italy Construction Materials and Installation: GF Ponteggi Srl Lighting: Scena Urbana Srl Textile: Cittadini Spa Special Thanks: Falegnameria Inganni, Helios Srl, Fabio Paris Art Gallery Special Support: Musnèl Client: Musical Zoo Festival Total Area: approx. 150 sqm Completion Date: July 2012

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Cite: Alison Furuto. "HARDWARE SOFTCORE Installation / Gabriele Falconi" 22 Sep 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/274120/hardware-softcore-installation-gabriele-falconi> ISSN 0719-8884

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