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Between here and there

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No one else in the world

Views from 'A Grin without a Cat', Borås International sculpture biennial, Sweden. 2018.

Outside the museum, a sun observation device is built with the type of welding glass normally used for watching eclipses. It is cut in the exact dimensions of an iPhone 7. We believe the sky and the celestial sphere to be as blue, like it is always represented, but the universe actually started out young and blue and gradually grew more red as the myriad of stars evolved and aged. The average colour of the universe is called “Cosmic Latte #FFF8E7”. Bugatti disperses the light that forms Cosmic Latte into a spectrum of colours, and uses a group of objects to embody the cosmic palette in an installation. Here you also find a temperature device where the liquid on top gets colder as the platform underneath warms up, a parallel with the relationship between the temperature on earth and in outer space (-270,43ºC), which is still cooling off after the Big Bang, while the earth is getting warmer and warmer.

Chiara Bugatti’s sculptures could be described as a rare hybrid of hyper-science and extreme material sensuality. The physical properties and historical connotations of the material she uses in her complex installations are also in close dialogue with the specifics of the space they inhabit, and the works interact and generate new meanings. Drawing from sciences such as cosmology, meteorology, geology, archaeology, art and the history of architecture, she creates her own universe, which, in turn, explores our surroundings.

Works captions

Between here and there.
Electrical components, CPU fan, peltier device, humidity;
building modules, steel, pigmented and pulverised wall plaster.
2018

No one else in the world.
Stainless steel, welder’s glass DIN14.
2018.

Contra el Viento

Views from C plus N Milan, Italy
2018.

Link to Mousse Magazine

Habitat (Rhythm Sample)
Architectural and electrical components, shade cloth, computer cooling fans, spring water.

A Vast Dark Ocean Washed Upon the Shores of Nothingness and Licked the Edges of Night. (Model)USB cable, graphite dust, electrical circuit with LED lights on a marble platform.

Surya Namaskar — Sun SalutationA4 sketch paper, sunlight from sunrise to sunset. Recorded during the Lucifer heatwave.

Mundo Perdido

Views from Ozymandias at Gallery CC Malmö, Sweden
Ph. Raffaele Piano

Mundo Perdido
Building material samples from the room in which the work is presented (wood, sand brick, concrete, drywall), powdered pink marble, 2016.

Views from Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden
Ph. Raffaele Piano

Mundo Perdido
Building material samples from the room in which the work is presented.

Details from aerial photographs over melting glaciers and found images of architectural details.

Jurassic limestone dust, insulating foam.
2016.

In the beginning there was an explosion

Views from Degree exhibition. Bildmuseet Umeå, Sweden. 2016.

In the beginning there was an explosionPyrite, concrete (three concrete enlargements of natural crystals, 1:32 miniature scale). 2016.

Who can comprehend the loneliness of Gods? Brick (a hundred 15ml sand samples from private collection, clay). 2016.

And there were four seasons and the hours run their cycle around midday and midnight.Alpine marble (crushed, filtered and washed), 2016. 300 kg of crushed alpine marble have been raked on the floor of the exhibition space. Each fragment is approximately 1-2 mm thick and has been washed and filtered by hand.

Creating Heavens

Views from Spazio Multiplo Padua, Italy. 2015.

Link to Text by Daniele Capra (ITA)

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