Sotto le stelle, 2025

The gilt wood medal holder, featuring a blue velvet interior and dotted with golden hooks, contains a creased photographic print of a blue sky, topped at the centre by a small blue sodalite stone.
The image of the starry sky – as suggested by the title, the constellation formed by the golden hooks, and the sodalite stone all of which indeed recall a starry sky – combined with the partial view of the daytime sky, the representation of an incommensurable and indescribable space, metaphorically represent an ideal, timeless dimension. A dimension that is emphasized by the gilded frame, which outlines and defines the space of the representation, by definition extraneous to the measurable reality of the surrounding world.
The work is part of a series of thirteen variants, made between 1985 and 2025, which are distinguished by the presence of one or more medal holders, their dimensions, and, above all, the intervention that is associated with them (GPO-0556, GPO-0563, GPO-0594, GPO-0595, GPO-0606, GPO-0615, GPO-0632, GPO-0717, GPO-0718, GPO-0891, GPO-1096, GPO-1099, GPO-1182). Akin to the GPO-0717, GPO-1096 and GPO-1182 versions, the work does not include a nebula of gilt nails scattered around the medal holder.