STAND ALONE
Casa Capra
LAB1 _ ArtVerona
Verona/ITALY
2022
time is the enemy, 2006-2022 | objet trouvé (painted metal box, plastic box, copper wire, iron), polychrome terracotta, cardboard, painted plaster, digital clock, timer, double vibrating system, mixed materials | 30x46x16.5 cm
time is the enemy, 2006-2022 | objet trouvé (painted metal box, plastic box, copper wire, iron), polychrome terracotta, cardboard, painted plaster, digital clock, timer, double vibrating system, mixed materials | 30x46x16.5 cm
time is the enemy, 2006-2022 | objet trouvé (painted metal box, plastic box, copper wire, iron), polychrome terracotta, cardboard, painted plaster, digital clock, timer, double vibrating system, mixed materials | 30x46x16.5 cm
time is the enemy, 2006-2022 | objet trouvé (painted metal box, plastic box, copper wire, iron), polychrome terracotta, cardboard, painted plaster, digital clock, timer, double vibrating system, mixed materials | 30x46x16.5 cm
Raised on bread and television, Nero proposes a bomb inspired by hundreds of movies and TV series, in which the enemy posed, as opposed to the good, the explosion of a device. Proposing a digital clock with red digits, contained inside an exploding briefcase, the artist narrates the passage of time; here there is no final deflagration, we have no countdown, but a numerical progression, time flowing inexorably, with sinister vibrating chimes every hour.
Inside the young person’s fantasy, now lurks, the adult’s fear.
Like any dynamiter, ego-maniac, confused, accumulator and ready to deflagrate, he personalizes this bomb, so we find a series of works that trace a timeline in the artist’s production, two ceramic sculptures from 2006 and 2015 and an orange plaster head (from the recent About Maria project).
The final tidbit, a QRcode in a patch of white paint, leads us to listen to Only the good die young* where Virginia’s unruly beau reminds her that she is a good church girl, but that the best are the first to go, and that it would be time to give out one’s graces.
Time is the enemy.
* Billy Joel’s masterpiece from the album The Stranger.
