CAROTAGGI
Carotaggi, Green Onyx 1 of 1+1AP
Studio Nucleo, 2021
By Piergiorgio Robino
Epoxy resin, pigment, wood
27 x 37 x 47h cm
Unique piece
Playing with the presumption of interlacing time-frames and exploring new boundaries,
Nucleo always wants to create curiosity about history that has not yet happened by making the past of the future.
This time the work is pointing out the urgency to stop the use of fossil fuels.
According to the last report of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
we are currently failing in our battle to avoid
the worst consequences of the climate crisis.
The war in Ukraine has prompted governments to rethink their energy policies,
and many European countries are considering ramping up fossil fuels as part of their response.
We have created a new series of artwork called Ice fossils as a metaphor
for a future that we don’t want to see. Inspired by the ice fossil definition
established in the 1950s, fossil ice can be the analogue of any of the modern
genetic types of subsurface ice. Most of the fossil ice was formed during the accumulation
and freezing of alluvial loams by the freezing of water in the annually occurring frost clefts
of the soil clay and is known as reveined ice. Ice Fossil is the reproduction of an ice block made
in epoxy resin like an object created for educational purposes as a reminder for the next generation. Using fiction, we want to advise people that the natural ice fossils will no longer be
available in the future due to the condition created by global warming, using a fake ice block as a memory of age
before the disaster that has melted the poles.
Ice Fossil is a collection recreating a different kind of Ice fossil from the Arctic to Antarctica, Patagonia to Alaska,
and Siberia to Iceland, showing different colours and different contamination.
Challenging nature, Nucleo creates impossible fake ice, following transparencies and colours available in nature.
Copying natural processes to create the perception of real ice.
Each Ice fossil is a single block made of epoxy resin and pigments.
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