PROST
Kunsthalle - Museumsquartier, Vienna. March 2012
Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona. March/June 2015
Still flowing through the Universe, the 160.2GHz electromagnetic wave called the Cosmic Background Radiation is supposedly the echo of the Big Bang.
We usually associate the idea of echo with the aftermath of something, but we rarely conceive of it as something prior, as the cause of a new drama that evokes a new reverberation, producing, perhaps, another state and so on.
An expanding universe on its way to a new collapse is part of an "evolutionary freedom" that perhaps only in the Downfall will find a way to reborn.
Kunsthalle - Museumsquartier. Vienna, March 2012
Joan Miró Foundation. Barcelona, March/June 2015
At a vernissage, guests are drinking glasses of wine (the glass as metaphor for celebration, climax, happiness). In the centre of the room, a glass table with four speakers positioned at the corners is suspended by four steel cables. The speakers reproduce the pleasant sound of resonating glasses. This harmonious sound begins to increase in volume, disturbing the guests. At this point, a warning is heard over the loudspeaker.
Your attention please. We inform you that your glass may explode in your hand at any moment. We suggest you leave it on the table. Keeping holding it is up to you and at your own risk. No one will take any responsibility on this.
People begin placing their glasses on the table, and the sound shatters some glasses near the speakers. The table, loaded with glasses, slowly begins to rise, pulled by the steel cables. The sound intensifies, and high above, the glass plate, unable to withstand, breaks down. The enormous cascade of broken glasses onto a black wooden board coated with polyester resin, positioned at the impact point. As the resin solidifies, the bright glass fragments stick to the black surface, a metaphor for a new universe, containing order and entropy.









PROST Vienna, 2012 - Polyester resin, glass and wine glasses on black stained wood. 210 x 130 cm

PROST Barcelona, 2015 - Polyester resin, glass and wine glasses on black stained wood. 260 x 160 cm

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