monstra (2011)

In The Will to Power, F. Nietzsche writes: “«Without the Christian faith – Pascal thought – you, no less than nature and history, will become for yourselves un monstre et un chaos». This prophecy we have furfilled”. With this claim one opens, itself up to thought and to contemporary art, the liberation from every simbolic representation, the abolition of distinction and separation (premise, priority, hierarchy) between « the true world» and «the apparent world» (illusory), and proposes, on the contrary, the affirmation of difference and of becoming, therefore dissolving every predetermined Form. The monster and chaos constitute pure Informal, which is able to negate every distinction between model and copy. For this reason, as the french philosopher G. Deleuze underlines, “It is a poor recipe for producing monsters to accumulate heteroclite determinations or to over-determine the animal. It is better to raise up the ground and dissolve the form” (in Difference and repetition). It is in this way, in my work, that I try to express through fusion, combustion and oxidation (metal, resin, amber), the power of becoming, of metamorphosis and change, arriving at monsters, without identity, without history, without memory.