Cosmic Magnet – Foligno

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The open, light-filled space of a deconsecrated and recently restored 18^th century church, a peaceful environment where light and time join together, houses an object so large that the building cannot contain it. This is a gigantic skeleton by the artist Gino De Dominicis from Ancona whose intention was to play with the evocations of death inherent in the image of a skeleton by creating one of such immense proportions that it cannot be avoided, inviting observers to conquer their fear and to walk around it. Visitors crossing the threshold of the Centro Italiano d'Arte Contemporanea (Centre of Contemporary Italian Art) in Foligno (PG), are greeted by the enormous human skeleton – 4m high and 24m long – which has a bird’s nose and lies in the midst of the light-filled deconsecrated church housing the centre. The Calamità Cosmica or Cosmic Magnet is a work that intends to provoke anxiety and curiosity. The union of these two feelings will eventually generate a sort of “fatal attraction” to the remains of a creature which both evokes the viewer’s fear that it could awake and bring a nightmare to life, while also docilely allows itself to be explored closeup. Following its first exhibition in Grenoble and displays in Italy and Europe, the “skeleton of Foligno” has now found its definitive home.

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