09.05 - 26.07.2008
Paolo Mazzuchelli
naga e hiro nature
morte
August 6/8, 2005.60 years after the explosion of the world’s first and only atomic bombs. Our historical memory tends to perceive Nagasaki and Hiroshima as FARAWAY events both in time and in place. They represent some sort of DIRTY BUSINESS from which we are TOTALLY DETACHED. The historians in charge managed to find "reasons" for the CATASTROPHE: It was a warning targeted at the stubborn arrogance of the Japanese population, necessary in both military and strategic terms.
But I find it difficult to get the images of contorted bodies out of my mind, the charred corpses floating in a puddle, the withered limbs left behind to melt into the asphalt, the rest of the body having been dried out and dissipated into the air. Furthermore, I am most disturbed by the LINGERING EFFECTS, destined to be reproduced, modified and passed on to subsequent generations, a perverse legacy of genetic alteration.
This was a terrible dirty trick, perhaps even worse than genocide and death camps.
These premises lead me to the idea of realizing a series of works aimed at transcending my profound rage and loathing and moving towards confrontation with the organizers and executors of this HORRIFYING BOOM, the final aim being a sort of UNITED and UNIVERSAL COMPASSION. It was an encounter with a Japanese monk named Taiun, a victim of the BOMB who was less than four years old at the time, that helped me to avoid succumbing to my intense rage and desperation. His pathos and tranquility convinced me to seek, through this terrible experience, to understand the meaning of existence for people and for their inanimate possessions. Paolo Mazzuchelli
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