Massimo Mazzone, (Marino, Rome, 1967) sculptor, numerous exhibitions in Europe and beyond, a member of the group of artists complot s.y.s.tem, and a professor of sculpture at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.
complot S.Y.S.tem — a process of research in which, since 2000, an independent group of artists work, in the plurality of languages addresses a particular attention to the relation between art and architecture.
Since 2001 Complot S.Y.S.tem defines a project for a utopic city, an allegory of the senses built by books, CDs, VHSs etc... that evokes the sensual presence an the sensitivity of the body, between the imaginary and reality.
Complot S.Y.S.tem (S.Y.S. save your soul) is an independent artistic group and a workshop about the body, the city and the art. Complot city is an utopian city. An allegory of the five senses. A place to live, “complot S.SY.S.tem metropolis” inhabiting like inhabiting the body. Modern architecture, modern art, town planning and built sculpture, photography, that is manifest rebellion against conformist and homesick descriptivism, more than a process of identification, identity and bound. No work born out of good will or bad conscience.
Identity; bodily and mental schemes that coincide on sensibility of smoothness, of transparency; towers, enclosures, bridges, columns, porches and squares and roads an terraces, arteries, veins and vessels of a new body. Doors, mouths, stairs, guts, ramps, bits, underground, tunnels, and at the end of the tunnel: “...I can hear again the unturned prelude of those rough cords under Sunday’s tram violin bow, The small white dices smile on the side gathered in circle like a huge denture between the fee foetid odour of tar and coal mixed with the nauseating smell of infinity.” (Campana) Jaws, bites, loving kisses, transformed into a town, predator’s watching, grabbing, exchanging, Porta Portese, grabbing, incorporating, bringing to one’s mouth, apple and poppy, samples of life, wanted life, caused life. Teethes. Colonnades of teethes, the most ancient stones inspired by them stay still in their silence.
“The gap from stone to metal was possibly the crucial step...” (Canetti). Smoothness is the secret symbol that foreshadows Modernity, the foundation and the building of cities, of sculpture, of poetry and of images. It’s the experience of a bodily functionalism that generates a geometric image of the world, smooth and crystal clear; it’s the finding of a real landing place for the pusher that aim at generating the image of world in which possibilities come true and not vice-versa. Representation doesn’t generate (bodily) possibilities, rather, the consciousness of self and of not-self spreads out of bodily experience, so to build an image of the world and a three-dimensional horizon within the bounds of which one can be fully realized. Dream and will of an expansion and of a contraction of a living organism, pulsating, the house, the square, the city, post-organic ante litteram, tribute to Galileo, collective body. And instead the goes forward, faith and militarism on a horseback of techno-info-telematic automation.
Books, food, film like a public an private building, dream, ....letatlin (fly bike).
SAA 3.0
Organization and Coordination.
DELEGACIÓN DE ALUMNOS DAETSA.UAH
Roberto Alia Cuadrado and Fang Yi Chen Chen.
Collaboration
CONSEJO DE ESTUDIANTES CEAUAH
METALOCUS (media partner)
gmtmasarquitectos (graphic design)
Sponsors
ETSAG
Vicerrectorado de Estudiantes
CEUAH
DAETSAUAH
