artache

MILAN

 

Duomo Scurolo di

San Carlo Borromeo

2005

 

Via Dolorosa, 2002

 

Mark Wallinger

 

 

A projected video installation  showing us the last act of the Easter story: the condemnation of Christ and his death on the cross. The ‘story’ is that told by Zeffirelli in his Jesus of Nazareth, but it is obliterated by, or rather ‘framed’ within, a black filter which shuts out 90% of the image. Not to the extent however, that we can’t make out the screaming mob, surrounding Christ and his crown of thorns: the cross and the final drama.

 

Via Dolorosa, Projected video installation, continuous loop, black rectangle painted on wall

18 minutes, 8 seconds

The architecture of the place suggests the artist how to move. Two floors, two worlds.

The first one that appears through the large Gothic light sockets made from the idea of space, which transform the great chapters in the history of salvation in patches of color. The second one that disappears under the presbytery built by Charles Borromeo as a new center of the space; a world that comes to the surface little by little, again through patches of color, fragments, shreds this time of the last chapters of the same story.

 

 

with thanks to

 

Milan Cathedral

Mons. Luigi Manganini

Archpriest

 

Don Luigi Garbini

 

Veneranda Fabbrica

 

Provincia di Milano

Daniela Benelli

Councillor of Culture

 

Mark Wallinger

 

 

Hauser & Wirth

 

video setup

Omero Porta

 

photo

Claudio Abate

 

artache

Graziella Bertolini

Stefania Morellato