Naturale Artificiale La Rosa

The film develops around a series of shots of Gino Marottas sculptures at the NaturalArtificial exhibition at the Galleria dellAriete Milan 1968 The images are inserted in a tight montage that alternates natural visions with pure ghosts of shapeslight in motion The rhythms are marked by the music of Cage Shapes and colors outline volumes like liquid and bright substances derived from the intense play of transparencies and overlaps From a manuscript note preserved in the Marinella Pirelli Archive Varese the artist reports Marottas sculptures were the pretext I was looking for they are in methacrylate perspex transparent and polarizing with those surfaces made of pure luminous variations but they were precisely a pretext