Video: War and Peace in the Segni Street Installation by Meinero Emanuele
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Gestures can convey a huge amount of information, meanings and nuances. Sometimes they can even be much more informative than speech and text. The Segni installation is dedicated to gestures from Meinero Emanuelepresented by the author on a narrow street in the center of the Italian city of Cuneo.
A handshake is one of the main symbols of human culture, to which modern artists quite often devote works of art. Examples of such works include the hyperrealistic painting Salto de Fe by Omar Ortiz or the installation Segni (Gestures) by the Italian Meinero Emanuel.
Emanuel has installed several dozen plastic objects on one of the streets of the city of Cuneo in Piedmont in northern Italy. Each of them is attached to the wall of the house and represents a hand folded in one gesture or another.
One of these gestures is an open hand outstretched for a handshake, the other is a hand folded to imitate a pistol.
Meinero Emanuel himself explains the main idea of the Segni installation in the eternal confrontation between good and evil, war and peace, openness and closeness of man.
In his work, the artist also plays on the history of relationships between families living in the city of Cuneo. After all, they did not always treat each other as affectionately as they do now. And in the old days, the war between neighbors living opposite each other could be envied even by the Montagues and Capulet clans from Verona, sung by Shakespeare in the play "Romeo and Juliet." days in Cuneo.
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