ELASTIC Group of Artistic Research | @elasticgroup | Lives and works in: Roma, Italy
Artist, CollectiveAlexandro Ladaga & Silvia Manteiga
Propietary website: http://www.elasticgroup.com
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The Night Watchmen
| Author: | ELASTIC Group of Artistic Research |
| Dimensions/Duration: | Video installation site specific |
| Copyright year: | 2006 Unfinished/In progress |
| Optimal display requeriments and technical details: | 24 LCD monitors 60''; sound amplification; 1 Space Cannon; environment lights. |
| Description, credits & further details: | A public art project commissioned by the Spanish Royal Accademy of Arts in Rome produced by the Spanish Ministries of Cultural and Foreign Affairs. In the Public Video Art installation The Night Watchmen, a multitude of nocturnal faces embedded on the circularity of the Bramante Temple (The Tempietto) look at and look for the wandering visitors: 24 video creatures, contemporary sibyls, splitting like Jano, the roman god, watchmen of the universe with a double profile that links knowledge of the past and intuition of the future. The ancient columns of stone of the Bramante Temple interlocked with the video columns designed by Elastic group of Artistic Research give birth to a new skin, a digital renaissance. It’s the first time that a group of contemporary artists create a video installation site specific using the monument emblematic of italian renaissance architecture setting 12 video columns with 24 video portraits in between the ancient colonnade. |
| Trajectory of exhibitions, awards & distintions: | La Notte Bianac 2006 /La Nuit Blanche/ La Noche en Blanco, Templete de Bramante, Piazza di San Pietro in Montorio, Roma. Comision de la Real Academia de España en Roma, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Ayuntamiento de Roma. |
| Additional information link: | https://www.facebook.com/ELASTICgroup |
ELASTIC Group of Artistic Research - THE NIGHT WATCHMEN (Public Art)
