• La terra trema Visconti 1948, 100 x 120 cm.

  • Fantozzi 1975 tsunami, 80 x 80 cm each.

  • I Soliti Ignoti Monicelli 1961, 100 x 70 cm, seismic map 70 x 50 cm.

  • Don Camille Gallone 1955, 100 x 70 cm, Un Americano a Roma Alberto Sordi 1954, 50 x 60 cm.

  • Volcano Otto Mieterle Anna Magnani 1950 60 x 60 cm, L'Aquila map zona rossa 50 x 60 cm.

  • La Dolce Vita Fellini 1960, 60 x 60cm, plate tectonics.

  • Che ora è Scala 1989, 70 x 40 cm, seismic movement.

  • L'avventura, Antonioni 1960, 30 x 40 cm, sediments.

  • La Strada Fellini 1954, 30 x 40 cm, seismic activity.

  • Lina Wertmüller, 30 x 40 cm, seismogram.

  • Fist full of dollars Sergio Leone 1964, 30 x 40 cm, seismic waves.

  • C'era una volta il West Sergio Leone 1968, 25 cm Ø, plate techtonics.

  • Floor collage on cement floor.

  • Floor view.

  • Movies on trowels.

Waiting For The Next One (Aspettando Il Prossimo)

 

This is a body of work concerned with understanding Italy’s relationship with earthquakes, utilizing imagery from Italian Neorealist cinema, which portrays: truth, naturalness, authenticity and documents and confirms the great Italian ability to re-present the real.

The images in this body of work ask these questions: is passively waiting, and not preparing for earthquakes, particularly Italian? Are Italians somehow attached to the drama connected with tragedy? I have chosen frames from Italian movies that seemingly catch Italians in the exact moment of recognition that something is about to happen. I place these images alongside more abstract images of seismic activity, intending to put Italians face to face with the earth beneath their feet. This work was presented in Gibellina, a town wiped clean by an earthquake in 1968 and turned into Alberto Burri’s famous land art I Cretti (the cracks), which covers the town like a shroud.

 

Collages

Earthquake Plates