Video: Shadows on the walls of a mental hospital: a creepy art project by Herbert Baglione
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Brazilian creativity street artist Herbert Baglione will not cause you emotion or joy. Rather, it is a feeling of loneliness and emptiness, visualized in soul-chilling images reminiscent of the famous "Scream" by Edvard Munch. Herbert Baglione recently presented a new project with a self-explanatory name "1000 Shadows".
In his works, Herbert Baglione often takes an interest in depicting a person and the shadow cast by him. Suffice it to recall his autumn street art, which we wrote about several years ago on the site Kulturologiya. Ru. Then the artist depicted a tiny man pressed into the wall and his giant shadow from a thousand fallen leaves. Today we will talk about the shadows painted on the walls of abandoned buildings.
As part of the 1000 Shadows project, Herbert Baglione has already painted mysterious silhouettes on the floors, walls and ceilings of deserted houses in São Paulo and Paris. However, the effect was still not so impressive. But the eerie elongated shadows that appeared in an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Parma (Italy) became the real apogee of the artist's creative idea.
The walls of the hospital served as the best "emotional context" in order to convey the aching feeling of loneliness and desolation that reigns in this building. Shadows are everywhere: near abandoned and dusty wheelchairs, on the walls with peeling paint. Some slip away into empty chambers and corridors, others circle under the ceiling. The 1000 Shadows project not only filled this abandoned building with a special inner content, but also became a silent reminder of the souls of the people who once lived here.
It's amazing how differently artists can react to the same events. At the sight of Herbert Baglione's bleak project, one immediately recalls a similar installation by Anna Schulite, installed at the Massachusetts Center for Mental Health. The artist adorned the building “sentenced” to demolition with a real carpet of 28,000 flowers. Perhaps, to the question of which of the best ways to honor the memory of buildings that have become a haven for mentally ill people, everyone can answer for themselves individually.
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