Chironi’s navigator has gone mad and placed Orani, Sardinia in the center of the world. It started to cause problems in 2008, materializing places and landscapes at impossible distances on the surfaces of a large Rubik’s Cube: an architectural and dynamic sculpture made up of rotatable and interchangeable squares, the hinge of which was the body of Cristian Chironi, changing clothes.
Each image fragment determined a different experiential path…
Category: Text
Chironautica. Silvia Fanti
Newspaper, Nikon, Nail. Silvia Fanti
CC’s projects unfold through photographs and performances, video and sculpture, carvings and happenings, architecture and communication. Camouflage and disorientation – poised on the verge of normalcy – are the arrival points. The engagement with performance happened in a natural way, originally as an expansion, an exponential increase or infraction of the two-dimensional character of photography, to which the body of the artist is added and integrated. Over the course of ten years, since 2005, the path has extended and branched to touch on wider and more open performative dimensions, of different durations and formats…
Dieci note per Cristian Chironi. Lorenzo Giusti
Cristian Chironi’s research covers a multifaceted range of forms of expression in which different visual communication codes are used interchangeably to give form to installations, sculptures, collages, performances, and videos. The recovery of images – often unexpected images – and the gathering of information are procedures the artist carries out in the most diverse ways…