2024
Solo show at Associazione Barriera (To)
Curated by Claudia Bagnoli
Original Music by Xàr Num
The work Godspeed! by Francesco Tosini (Milan, 1988) is for all intents and purposes a sidereal plastic reconstruction for collective use.
The title is a wish for a good voyage and good luck, a contraction of the Middle English phrase God spede (in modern English, “May God help you prosper”). In naval tradition, the phrase was uttered at the departure of military ships, and it is still used today during NASA spacecraft launches. The wish that the journey in which we are all immersed, stellar matter floating in the darkness of the universe, may give us pleasure and turn into a wandering from ourselves to ourselves, delving into the depths of a collective self, a communal regeneration in which we find ourselves fluid and connected.
Who will experience anguish? Who awe and wonder? Who torpor and stillness?
The symbol of the star, its fetish, recurs in two of the works in the exhibition. Stars from time immemorial have fascinated, marked the way, oriented.
Silent artisans with bellies in fruitful tumult, in their ardor the chemical building blocks of the matter of which we are composed are generated.
“Great luminous foci that bring worlds to life,” Louis-Auguste Blanqui called them.
No longer so bright, but rather a distant memory, now that electric light towers above the stars and dims them, now that the night is no longer illuminated by its celestial spectres, but raped with ideas, commercial offerings and vivid images.
To escape them, the environment set up in the Barrier space opens up a parenthesis in which to breathe, calm down, and be able to take shelter in a gentle, rosy, and light darkness. In inhabiting this immersive space, Francesco Tosini opens a gap in dialogue with sidereal and ancestral distances, with the intention of recognizing the transversality of the energy that permeates and forms us and what is outside of us. This force expands simultaneously horizontally and vertically and is therefore oblique and transversal.
The plexiglass star (Godspeed, 2024) rotates on itself suspended within the exhibition space, in her we find ourselves reflected.
Its perpetual motion is the refrain of the track composed by sound artist Xar nùm, which elevates and punctuates its rotation. Of the same constancy is the dance of the stars in the cosmic ether, gentle and rigorous. As imposing as it is slender and two-dimensional, it is not just any five-pointed, but reveals its fractal nature, its ability to reproduce and repeat itself from the first iteration of itself and to potentially expand infinitely in its extremities. In this regard, its name has the double meaning of God’s speed, where God is identified in the Fibonacci sequence and its fractal configurations.
Solo show at Associazione Barriera (To)
Curated by Claudia Bagnoli
Original Music by Xàr Num
The work Godspeed! by Francesco Tosini (Milan, 1988) is for all intents and purposes a sidereal plastic reconstruction for collective use.
The title is a wish for a good voyage and good luck, a contraction of the Middle English phrase God spede (in modern English, “May God help you prosper”). In naval tradition, the phrase was uttered at the departure of military ships, and it is still used today during NASA spacecraft launches. The wish that the journey in which we are all immersed, stellar matter floating in the darkness of the universe, may give us pleasure and turn into a wandering from ourselves to ourselves, delving into the depths of a collective self, a communal regeneration in which we find ourselves fluid and connected.
Who will experience anguish? Who awe and wonder? Who torpor and stillness?
The symbol of the star, its fetish, recurs in two of the works in the exhibition. Stars from time immemorial have fascinated, marked the way, oriented.
Silent artisans with bellies in fruitful tumult, in their ardor the chemical building blocks of the matter of which we are composed are generated.
“Great luminous foci that bring worlds to life,” Louis-Auguste Blanqui called them.
No longer so bright, but rather a distant memory, now that electric light towers above the stars and dims them, now that the night is no longer illuminated by its celestial spectres, but raped with ideas, commercial offerings and vivid images.
To escape them, the environment set up in the Barrier space opens up a parenthesis in which to breathe, calm down, and be able to take shelter in a gentle, rosy, and light darkness. In inhabiting this immersive space, Francesco Tosini opens a gap in dialogue with sidereal and ancestral distances, with the intention of recognizing the transversality of the energy that permeates and forms us and what is outside of us. This force expands simultaneously horizontally and vertically and is therefore oblique and transversal.
The plexiglass star (Godspeed, 2024) rotates on itself suspended within the exhibition space, in her we find ourselves reflected.
Its perpetual motion is the refrain of the track composed by sound artist Xar nùm, which elevates and punctuates its rotation. Of the same constancy is the dance of the stars in the cosmic ether, gentle and rigorous. As imposing as it is slender and two-dimensional, it is not just any five-pointed, but reveals its fractal nature, its ability to reproduce and repeat itself from the first iteration of itself and to potentially expand infinitely in its extremities. In this regard, its name has the double meaning of God’s speed, where God is identified in the Fibonacci sequence and its fractal configurations.
