Condizione di Insieme – Majority Report

10 & zero uno is pleased to open the doors of its space in Venice to the public for the first time during the opening week of the Biennale on Friday, April 22 from 12:30 to 9 p.m., presenting “Condizione di Insieme – Majority Report”, a bipersonal exhibition by Matteo Vettorello and Marzio Zorio, curated by Chiara Boscolo.

Matteo Vettorello and Marzio Zorio share the same sensibility towards the central themes of their artistic research, which drives them to carefully analyse not only the relationships created between human beings but also their actions in the context they belong to, in the micro and macro system of the environment that sorrounds us.

Through a language that becomes a common ground in their practices, in which they contrast the use of technological and apparently cold systems with the emotionality of the concepts investigated, they invite us to reflect on the power of the “poetics of the machine”. On the basis of this research we can also say tha devices, carriers of messages and analyses of our way of life, contain internal (and existential) oxymorons in the works of art themselves.  Works of art who frequently require the interaction of the user in order to be completed, without which they would cease to exist. The artists therefore focus on the actions of individuals who deeply seek vitality in their community and in the sharing of their feelings.

It is not coincidence that “Condizione d’Insieme – Majority Report” also talks about this. In fact, the reason for analysis is the human presence that inhabits the space and creates a community in which the condition of the present time is strongly perceived, generating a propulsive thrust towards becoming. A becoming that concerns everything and everyone, in which one cannot remain passive and solitary observers. Where a cause triggers an effect and where the interaction with others leaves a more or less ephemeral trace. Something that lasts or that is consumed in its own evolution but that despite this becomes a light that dazzles and marks a change because it remains in the experience of those who have experienced it as well as in the place where the phenomenon occurred.

Entering more in the detail, we find in the R.B.V.O.T.L. (01) – Rilevatore di benessere del vicinato per ottimizzare la tranquillità di un luogo –  the intention of Vettorello to create an interactive biometric sculpture that invites a group of three people to relate to each other. The machine in question, of a strong sculptural nature, is put into operation through a synchronous breathing exercise, through which a controlled natural event unfolds in the form of a vortex enclosed in a Plexiglas cylinder filled with water. Its importance lies in the elegance of this element that is not randomly selected and indeed conveys a powerful message. As can be seen from the very title of the work, the ritual that is enacted leads to the realization of an activity that puts the users in communion with their own bodies as well as with each other, with positive results for the entire surrounding environment. “The goal is the absolute perception of the present so that a common cognitive feeling of the whole is created,” which leads to living with real awareness the concepts of union and community and the strength that the individual can draw from them.

The site-specific installation created by Zorio, entitled “Moti Umani”, immediately impresses with its aesthetic refinement and ability to intervene in space, enveloping it and becoming an integral part of the environment itself. What appears to us is a speaker that through the production of vibrations triggers a real process of writing on reels of paper of several meters. The sound tracks that are reproduced by it are the result of recordings made during moments of great human aggregation. Circumstances of union of people selected by the artist with the aim of making us reflect on how much consciously or unconsciously man leaves a trace in his environment and more generally in the earth system. This work, which finds an easy analogy in its functioning with the seismograph, stands as a meeting point of the three temporal dimensions, i.e. past, present and future. We can identify as past the reproduced recording, present the act of transcription and future the result of the same hypothetically. In fact, it is plausible to imagine an archives made up of the results of transmissions of recordings on paper, since they represent a form of writing of the spoken language in which the intonation is not lost.

The dialogue between the works of Matteo Vettorello and Marzio Zorio takes place with great naturalness within the exhibition space and highlights not only the conceptual similarities at the base of their respective artistic researches but also some glaring differences present in these two works.
For example, it is evident that the difference between the viewer who approaches to enter in relation with these two worlds. While in Zorio he remains a spectator, in Vettorello the spectator becomes the protagonist and then returns again as spectator in front of the vortex phenomenon. However, what must remain even more impressed by these different characteristics is precisely that through dissimilarity and relationship with the other creates the identity of the individual, which if isolated can do nothing but remain sound waiting to be able to turn into music thanks to the union with the community.