il gigante

 

the recycled giants

Me and my Giants, in HP Graphic Academy, Barcelona.
These giants are made by industrial materials that HP indigo printing machines are producing every day as disposal waste of the printing production. In order to implement the reuse and recycling of these parts HP wanted to create an art work that could convey the  idea that trash can come to life and beauty if recycled. Here you have one good picture that helps to understand the real proportions of this creative work.

the HP recycled giants

Finally my recycling art work is in place!
The recycled giants of HP graphic academy are now on their wall!
This work is a 5 meters high recycling art that uses all the materials that day by day are used in the printing industry of the HP Indigo technology. Putting together all the cleaning pages, blankets, screws, PIPs, electronic boards, cables, capsules, encoders, wires, tapes, blades, etc... the 3 giants came to life!

The oficial photos are still to be taken, but I cannot wait to share with you my happiness that they finally found their place.
This art was a quite long process and I had to face the problem to manage several different materials sometimes difficult to thrill, sometimes hard to stick together, sometimes too delicate, sometimes almost impossible to cut, sometimes complicate to take the form that I liked...
But the giants are now there, visible in the international training center of the EMEA region for HP, and that's a prestigious place for my new recycled friends!

The main concept of the work was "recycling"!
All the materials that are thrown away constantly during the industrial production can be reused and can take life again!
And that is the message that the giants want to tell you.

Soon I will post the oficial pictures and presentation, but for the moment you can have an idea with this brief presentation.
I hope you like.

animale fantastico-12

il MEGALOPESCE-SACCO

il megalopesce-sacco è un pesce che cresce sotto alle cascate perenni delle alte montagne.
quando è piccolo può spostarsi comodamente da un posto all'altro senza nessuna difficoltà e risulta essere un normale pesciolino fluviale, ma quando trova la sua cascata ideale il megalopesce gigante si attacca alla pietra con la sua pelle dotata di micro-ventose e resistendo alla forte corrente delle cascate continua ad alimentarsi di ogni cosa organica (alghe e piccoli animaletti) che sia trasportata dall'acqua e che cada direttamente nella sua bocca.
ben presto il megalopesce-sacco diventa imponente e comincia ad assomigliare a un puff, a un grande sacco pieno d'acqua.
appoggiato alla parete della cascata può crescere in modo spropositato, alcuni dicono che non smetta mai di crescere!
non è comunque difficile vederne alcuni esemplari di 3 metri di altezza nelle cascate delle vallate di alta montagna.

da un sogno del 15 maggio 2018

absurd idea for an impossible city

why all city centres have to be a very dense maze of houses and alleys or a huge organized chess board of wide avenues and high skyscrapers? If I should invent a new city centre I would put a big garden in the middle of all the town: a green lung for all the people, the centre park.

ok this is not such a new idea and it isn't something so strange, indeed there are cities like this. but I'm now imagining an absurd town! a town existing only in the dreams of a child. with some strange rhetorical organization and a special symmetrical plan... like in the legendary stories of atlantis....
So let's now imagine a huge park that's the centre of the town, and let's think about a radial disposition of all the streets, like the drawing of the sun: the labyrinth of the tarmacked lines would be like a tissue pointing to a theoretical centre. the centre, of course it's in the middle of the park. and what's the centre? a big statue! a metal statue! the goddess of the city! the dweller of that place, the ruler of the human community.

the statue would be inserted in the grass as if the green soil would be a sort of water level in which the goddess is submerged. all around a thick forest would protect her, but near to her body an open and flat field of green land will surround her. the people of the town would often go to the huge statue to meet the immense mother of the place, the giant origin of the city.
her arms and legs are below the earth holding the foundations of the town, her heart is green, her body is metal and her hair is... tarmac! her hair is falling down in the grass and spreading radially to the horizon. this is the origin of all the streets of the town! here in these streets there are no cars, of course. only young people running, playing, skating and jogging.

yes I know, it's just an absurd idea for an impossible city centre.
but it's crazy! isn't it?

el descubrimiento de la cueva de los gigantes