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Alongside
his distinguished career in cinema and television, where he appeared in
prominent casts, Fabrizio Borelli now presents the public with a new chapter in
his photographic research, this time with a strong inclination toward
cross-contamination of media.
Recently
made available on Objkt.one, the art collectors’ platform on the Tezos
blockchain, is the motion video work “CONTAGION - metronomo zoppo / crippled
metronome” - the first video of the CONTAGION NFT collection, derived from the
CONTAGION 2013 and CONTAGION 2022 series, comprising thirty metaphotographs on
giclée prints, where Borelli proposes the human brain as the distinctive sign
of representation. https://objkt.com/tokens/open_objkt/5742
The two
series are thus encapsulated in an NFT (Non-Fungible Token), the digital
ownership certificate registered on the blockchain that attests to the
authenticity and uniqueness of the digital work/asset. Like an original
artwork, each NFT is unique and irreplaceable.
The
transmutation of metaphotographic work into digital form materializes in the
NFT world “…because immaterial objects require an equally immaterial space, the
digital universe.” A previous and analogous transition occurred in 2022 - in
the gaming world - with the CONTAGION Hypercasual Multiplayer Experience
application. All are segments of the CONTAGION Project, a neverending work that
mutates across the different languages and media it employs, a concept
developed and realized in collaboration with Alessio Crisantemi’s GnMedia
company.
In the
video work, the sequence of images is accompanied by a defined and at times
irregular pulse. It is the beat of a metronome that, in its mechanical
essentiality, evokes the inexorability of time. Each beat is unique and
irrecoverable – the iteration reveals the paradox of eternity / transience.
With the
thirty plates of the original CONTAGION series - placing the brain figure as
the “sign” to fully represent the individual - Borelli intended to tell the
story of a community - initially arranged in an orthogonal grid of twenty-five
“cells,” each depicted by a colored brain - a community where, suddenly, some
individuals, plate after plate, disappear, reappearing later in a different
color, thus undermining the existing equilibrium.
The
metronome that jams, that unpredictably breaks its own rhythm, is the heartbeat
of the “CONTAGION community” where the existing balance is compromised by the
disappearance / appearance of the brains, thus of individuals.
Fabrizio
Borelli’s artistic career. After beginnings in traditional photography -
theater, politics, society, portraiture - never set aside - the first
experiments in contamination came in the 1980s, with Mindscapes and Magic
Windows. In the 2000s, Borelli began research on diagnostic images, X-ray
plates, CT scans, scintigraphies. “Diagnostic images, in my view, have a
powerful revelatory value, they are both symbol and archetype. It is an
irrefutable ‘figure,’ primordial. It is thought, action, and mystery together.
It is the synthesis of the individual, it is the person beyond anatomy.” This
research led him to explore “metaphotography,” a practice that focuses on how
images influence perception beyond representation, beyond the simple act of
seeing. It is photography’s way of exploring other languages and interacting
with other media, analyzing their processes.
Fabrizio Borelli has exhibited his works in numerous exhibitions and museums, participating in cultural initiatives promoted by public and private institutions. He has worked on sets with directors Bruno Corbucci, Mariano Laurenti, Luigi Comencini, Ettore Scola, Giovanna Gagliardo, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Ermanno Olmi. He has collaborated with the three RAI networks and RAI Parlamento as a director and format designer
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