For the second edition of the collaboration between art and the fashion brand Corneliani about ecological production, the Sardinian-Piedmontese artist SCERBO (Biella, 1984) picks three elements for the installation UltraCapi: oak barks, cherry tree branches and metal pipes. These materials, of natural and anthropic origin, are the fruit of urban scouting and exploration in the Piedmont woods through a creative survey of the context. Thanks to these, SCERBO creates three sculptural elements delicately placed on the heads of three Corneliani mannequins, such as ecological crowns. Suppose crowns are commonly associated with social responsibilities (be they derived from temporal or spiritual power), in that case, these headgears invoke environmental responsibility in the face of an urgency that can wait no longer. SCERBO's UltraCapi gives form to three totemic figures, three guardians charged with the care, surveillance and protection of planet earth.
The UltraCapi wear the same clothes as us, they have no face or rank, they are each and every one of us. Through a collective coronation, the artist's intervention reminds us that anyone can be the deserving recipient of the crown as long as they commit with awareness. The act of guarding is an active verb of personal decision, which presumes the assumption of responsibility. Today, in the age of environmental crisis, the cry of artists calls for the transformation of duty into a skill for a collective attitude of respect and protection of what surrounds us.
With UltraCapi, SCERBO creates a habitat, a scenography that oscillates between the physical dimension of the sculptural elements explicitly designed for Palazzo Durini and the virtual dimension through video art that permits the digital fruition of the work.
ARTIST: SCERBO