Yuri Ancarani
24 Apr - 05 May 2012
YURI ANCARANI
La malattia del ferro
24 April - 5 May 2012
ZERO is pleased to present La malattia del ferro, a project by Yuri Ancarani.
The title of the exhibition refers to a disease that affects those who spend long periods working on ships and oil platforms. An attraction to the sea, its times and spaces, and an attachment to this kind of difficult and routinary life, which make them intolerant to the mainland and push them to leave again.
The show is in fact focused on the film Piattaforma Luna and some new materials related to the experience of the artist during its production.
The documentary is the second episode of a trilogy in between art and cinema, centered around the theme of labour: jobs that are not very well known and that do not often get talked about, occurring in contexts, albeit fascinating, difficult and often dangerous. Yuri Ancarani puts himself in these situations, sharing the experience and the spaces lived by the protagonists of his films.
In Piattaforma Luna the artist lives for a few days inside the hyperbaric chamber with a group of six scuba diving technicians who work in deep ocean water, in an off-shore operation aboard the platform Moon. Their activities shift in between 100 meters depth under the sea and the hyperbaric chamber. This extreme environment does not allow for things to be as they are outside of water. Everything and every action must be reinvented in order to seem normal. Ancarani adds to this non verbal language a texture of sounds made of noises and voices which seem to be modified with auto-tune interventions, words we cannot understand and gear whose mechanism looks like a cross between technique and surreal game. The relationship between body and gesture, image and sign, mechanical code and ritual, thus become the narrative elements through which Yuri Ancarani conveys this reality with the rigour of a typical documentary. An often invisible reality, sublimated through the camera The platform Moon is also the main subject of the video-projection A.
The slowness and the daily routine characterizing the first two works are interrupted in the installation La malattia del ferro, which gives its title to the exhibition. In this 3-channel video the viewer witnesses an extraordinary event, which for a few hours disrupts the life on the platform Barbara. The video-installation stands out in the space for its sculptural, almost totemic, presence. The close-ups of the platform, realized to capture the movements of the butterflies, depict the details of the iron structure. A material that becomes the symbol itself of the exhibition and of the reality to which it gives voice.
Yuri Ancarani was born in Ravenna in 1972. He lives and works in Milan.
La malattia del ferro
24 April - 5 May 2012
ZERO is pleased to present La malattia del ferro, a project by Yuri Ancarani.
The title of the exhibition refers to a disease that affects those who spend long periods working on ships and oil platforms. An attraction to the sea, its times and spaces, and an attachment to this kind of difficult and routinary life, which make them intolerant to the mainland and push them to leave again.
The show is in fact focused on the film Piattaforma Luna and some new materials related to the experience of the artist during its production.
The documentary is the second episode of a trilogy in between art and cinema, centered around the theme of labour: jobs that are not very well known and that do not often get talked about, occurring in contexts, albeit fascinating, difficult and often dangerous. Yuri Ancarani puts himself in these situations, sharing the experience and the spaces lived by the protagonists of his films.
In Piattaforma Luna the artist lives for a few days inside the hyperbaric chamber with a group of six scuba diving technicians who work in deep ocean water, in an off-shore operation aboard the platform Moon. Their activities shift in between 100 meters depth under the sea and the hyperbaric chamber. This extreme environment does not allow for things to be as they are outside of water. Everything and every action must be reinvented in order to seem normal. Ancarani adds to this non verbal language a texture of sounds made of noises and voices which seem to be modified with auto-tune interventions, words we cannot understand and gear whose mechanism looks like a cross between technique and surreal game. The relationship between body and gesture, image and sign, mechanical code and ritual, thus become the narrative elements through which Yuri Ancarani conveys this reality with the rigour of a typical documentary. An often invisible reality, sublimated through the camera The platform Moon is also the main subject of the video-projection A.
The slowness and the daily routine characterizing the first two works are interrupted in the installation La malattia del ferro, which gives its title to the exhibition. In this 3-channel video the viewer witnesses an extraordinary event, which for a few hours disrupts the life on the platform Barbara. The video-installation stands out in the space for its sculptural, almost totemic, presence. The close-ups of the platform, realized to capture the movements of the butterflies, depict the details of the iron structure. A material that becomes the symbol itself of the exhibition and of the reality to which it gives voice.
Yuri Ancarani was born in Ravenna in 1972. He lives and works in Milan.