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ARTWORK BY NAZARENO BIONDO
We Are Future
By Nazareno Biondo
We Are Future is the 4th chapter of The Art of Becoming project, which explores the topic of creation that bridges art and fashion.
This work is inspired by Xacus' future, and to interpret it, we involved a sculptor who works with an ancient material to create futuristic visions.
“If we need to be able to communicate something through art ... then I choose, with a critical eye, to emphasise how important it is to abandon the culture of waste in favour of that of reuse“
NAZARENO BIONDO
Nazareno Biondo creates multifaceted artworks that explore the intrinsic beauty of marble, using minimal tools and deliberately avoiding sophisticated technology, to bring out common objects and day-to-day waste, narrating the contemporary world through a mixture of irony and drama. Every piece is meticulously created by hand, in a search for formal perfection that borders on hyper-realism, to trigger a reflection on time and on the concepts of abandonment, waste and consumerism. Nazareno has received many international awards for his art.
We Are Future
A life-size door sculpted in Carrara marble: through this monumental artwork, Nazareno Biondo represents the barrier between present and future, between what we are now and our evolution. And this barrier is anything but insurmountable, because it is pierced by a crack of light: keychain through which we can see the glimmer of a future that brings with it innovation and benefits for anyone capable of developing the best version of themselves. A sculpture + videoart piece, prompting viewers to physically and symbolically approach a vision with a cathartic and revealing power.
Zero degrees of separation
By diving into creation, the artist enters an intimate, suspended dimension, where past, present and future are blended together; when he shapes the marble, his hands follow the movements of an ancient wisdom, to sculpt images that evoke a vision of the future.
The future is not a distant horizon: it is already here, concealed only by a veil so fine that we can glimpse how it is. To observe it, we need to enter another dimension, a visionary dimension, crossing the illusory barriers of time to see what - after all - is already before our very eyes. And then, by looking at the future as an evolution of the present, we can try to change it, try to shape a better version of it. People, governments and industries can do so, by changing the way they act, by taking new paths, and experimenting with unprecedented solutions. Artists have been doing this since time immemorial, thus creating unusual perspectives and provocations to simulate our conscience and our thoughts.
Bianco Carrara: the perfection of the material
The material used for the "We Are Future" artwork is Bianco Carrara, the marble par excellence, extracted for millennia from quarries in the Apuan Alps. The marble of Michelangelo and Donatello, an icon of beauty, perfection, and elegance, with its fine grain and unmistakable gray veining. The slab, weighing 365 kg and 210 cm high, was selected and supplied by Petra Antiqua, a Vicenza-based company specializing in the artisanal processing of natural stone. It is the core of a block extracted from the Carrara quarries, from which the most aesthetically pleasing part was extracted.
“My works are a metaphor for a collective state of mind; they represent a common feeling among contemporary individuals, the sensation of being manipulated for a specific reason, only to be discarded and abandoned. “
