Phoenix Death_Birth

Radical Change<Phoenix Death_Birth takes place in an essential scenic space made of totality and contamination where the representation has a liquid and transparent, anti-material and anti-monumental consistency. Fire, the regenerating and central element of metamorphosis, follows Phoenix on its slow path towards death through a space built around a series of transparent elements, defined by ten installations in the form of ovules, together life and death, fetus and urn, canopies and cradles of creatures in metamorphosis.

Phoenix Death_Birth follows the legendary path of the Phoenix, the sacred bird that at the age of 500 lays its limbs in a nest of incense and cinnamon, built on top of a palm tree, and then expires. Another Phoenix will then be born from his body and will transport its nest to the temple of Hyperion, the Titan father of the Sun God.

Like a small Phoenix, every five hundred years to be resurrected as it was before. “Can I lay down my soul and then take it back” – does the artist not aspire to this when he edifies his poetry, his work? It dies and rises again, inside an egg or from the flames, always among the branches of its nest scented with aromatic herbs. Construction, Combustion, Death, Resurrection, Transformation, Identity, Form, Body, Color, Smell – isn't that the very essence of artistic creation? The artist dies and is reborn every time when the work is concluded because the artistic work has no conclusion, the Metamórphõsis has no end because the Myth has no border.

A radical change means returning to zero to relive oneself, from the zero of Hölderlin –an expression of maximum poetic power – to the streben of Goethe's Faust (Philemon and Baucis, Hecuba), from the magical fairy tale of the Shakespearean Dream (Pyramus and Thisbe) to the majestic Rilkian lyric (Orpheus and Eurydice) chasing other frames from the fairy tale of life. The sumptuous and violent folds of the baroque of Calderón and Genet lead us back to the inviolate temple of the pure language of art that performs, that transforms, that deforms, that exalts the utopia of the unity of the world between resistant nature, thinking man and the divine people: Echo ̃Narcissus ̃Cyparissus ̃Alcyon, Death and Birth of little Phoenix, radioactive materials for a mutation in progress.

PHOENIX DEATH_BIRTH

Plexiglass, ash, leather, orange-carrot fruit juice wrappers, cigarette butts, paper bags.