Those waves by Chiara Dynys in the hypogeum of Palazzo Citterio

Palazzo Citterio hosts Once Again , the new monographic project by Chiara Dynys , curated by Anna Bernardini (until September 7). The site-specific installation conceived by Chiara Dynys for the underground hall known as Stirling, created in partnership with Intesa Sanpaolo , is in coherent continuity with the research that the artist has dedicated to the dialogue with space, both real and fictitious, for over thirty years, and will welcome the public in an alienating atmosphere.

Once Again, whose title is borrowed from Nietzsche's theory of the Eternal Return, powerfully transcribes the essence and spirit of the artist's research, as well as the aesthetics and vocabulary that once again pushes its tension to the limit between reality and dream. Chiara Dynys has created a gigantic mobile "machine" that will inhabit the Stirling space in the coming months: it consists of three rotating perspective rollers that unfold for ten meters in width, simulating the movement of sea waves and their breaking on the shoreline for a length of twelve meters. An intuition that takes inspiration from the "extraordinary" seventeenth-century stage machines capable of generating amazement and wonder in the soul of the spectator, with the magic of illusion.

It is difficult not to get involved. The audience, in the artist's intentions, will be surprised physically and emotionally, by sounds and visions, familiar to us. The work is set on cold colors and the wavy motion of the "water" is hypnotic like the machine sound that accompanies it, because it is openly artificial and at the same time evocative of everything that the sea represents and means in the imagination of all of us.