Visionary Stone
05.09.2022
experimental works of art in natural stone processed with CNC technology
Curator and author: Raffaello Galiotto
VISIONARY STONE is an exhibition of works of art in natural stone designed using parametric software and carved entirely with CNC machinery.
The exhibition involves nine stone sculptures inspired by the natural forms found in the animal and plant kingdom. They are guided by compositional logics such as symmetry and phylloctaxis, halfway between a fossil find and the beached exoskeleton of marine animals.
A visionary collection that stirs up the debate between natural and artificial, prompted by a new expressive language where natural stone meets the digital world in an antithetical relationship between materiality and immateriality, between robot and human.
Stone worked in this way, with perceptive, visual and tactile milling of very high precision, invites observers into a physical experience through impressively evocative and appealing aesthetic expression and meanings that go far beyond a merely technical exercise.
The works are arranged on three exhibit islands also in stone, as an integral part of the show, grouped in a single space like a small archipelago. Each island measures 2.5 x 9 metres and is characterized by a hilly base of stratified stone slabs shaped by machinery.
The exhibition - hosted in The Plus Theatre in Hall 10 - is curated and designed by Raffaello Galiotto. It was developed together with a group of companies of excellence in processing and the construction of machinery in the natural stone sector.
Works / Companies
CAULA / Emmedue, Etna Stone & Design, DDX, Nicolai Diamant
PORA / Generelli
PROTO I / Gmm, DDX, Gruppo Tosco Marmi O.M.G., Scuola Tecnica del Marmo Settore Arte e Automazione Sant’Ambrogio di Valpolicella
PROTO II / Gmm, Gruppo Tosco Marmi O.M.G., Alphacam by Licom Systems
PROTO III / Generelli, Gruppo Tosco Marmi O.M.G.
STELLATA / Odone Angelo, Nikolaus Bagnara
TESTUDO / Odone Angelo, Nikolaus Bagnara
TRUNCUS I – II / Margraf
PARAMETRIC STONE LANDSCAPE / Bianco Cave by Fato Stone
