Emilio PRINI
Modello ligneo, Roma
2005
14x70x85 cm
The “idea of the cast as the dimension of the not represented”: this is Modello ligneo. A three-dimensional piece of Plexiglas (14 x 70 x 85 cm) resting on the two-color Roman mosaic around which the five musicians played on the day of the inauguration. Despite the admiration it arouses as an artwork, Prini insists that Modello ligneo possesses no aesthetic qualities because it coincides – exactly like a cast – with the image it allows to show through.