Claudio Beorchia |
| Born in 1979 in Vercelli, he lives and works between Treviso and Milan. He has studied Design and Visual Arts at Iuav University in Venice and New Media Art at Accademia di Brera in Milan. A multidisciplinary artist with a conceptual background, he uses various media and material in his works, in a constant search for the highest communicative effectiveness as well as the lightest compositional synthesis |
Europe is being pervaded by a climate of general emergency: the emergency resulting from the economic crisis, which has made us discover to be temporary workers and poor all of a sudden; the geopolitical emergency, with terrorism, fundamentalisms and strained relations between countries, which is making us feel more insecure and suspicious; the environmental emergency, with more and more frequent disasters (more or less natural), famines and global warming, which make us feel weak and powerless. This is not just a moment in time, a short period anticipating a new boom. We are experiencing a transition where the key words of the last few years – development and security – are being replaced by the concepts of “negative growth and uncertainty”. With my project, I would like to give an aesthetic form to this general transition, to affirm it straightly and openly in cities and squares, in order to be aware of, ready to and not (too) afraid of this condition.
To this purpose, I would like to reflect on a material I consider to be extremely evocative and emblematic: the emergency thermal blanket, i.e. the silver and gold reflective shelter given as a first-aid device to people in difficulties, e.g. landing immigrants, accident victims, shocked people, or those who are under extreme climate conditions. I have been struck by this material, where the functional silver and gold films end up giving a noble, precious, conspicuous and shining feature to both the object and the wearer. I would like to have the opportunity to work with this material, by turning it into flags, banners, cloaks, cloths, etc. to be installed in the urban environment, on the windows of buildings, along the streets and organizing little parades and public events which involve people. I have already started to make some simulations, some trial objects, using thermal blankets: cloths, banners, flags, cloaks, kites, etc. but what matters to me is being able to bring them to a public dimension, to a urban environment, to an environmental scale which make the whole city and its inhabitants wonder. I would like to cover the façades of a building with golden clothes, to hoist these shining flags on public poles, to organize little parades and happenings with people marching wearing golden cloaks. All this in order to declare the “state of emergency” which is setting in and metaphorically urge people to get ready for and awaken to it, while exorcizing its effects.
To this purpose, I would like to reflect on a material I consider to be extremely evocative and emblematic: the emergency thermal blanket, i.e. the silver and gold reflective shelter given as a first-aid device to people in difficulties, e.g. landing immigrants, accident victims, shocked people, or those who are under extreme climate conditions. I have been struck by this material, where the functional silver and gold films end up giving a noble, precious, conspicuous and shining feature to both the object and the wearer. I would like to have the opportunity to work with this material, by turning it into flags, banners, cloaks, cloths, etc. to be installed in the urban environment, on the windows of buildings, along the streets and organizing little parades and public events which involve people. I have already started to make some simulations, some trial objects, using thermal blankets: cloths, banners, flags, cloaks, kites, etc. but what matters to me is being able to bring them to a public dimension, to a urban environment, to an environmental scale which make the whole city and its inhabitants wonder. I would like to cover the façades of a building with golden clothes, to hoist these shining flags on public poles, to organize little parades and happenings with people marching wearing golden cloaks. All this in order to declare the “state of emergency” which is setting in and metaphorically urge people to get ready for and awaken to it, while exorcizing its effects.
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