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    ‘Aloft (for Jean Honoré F.)’     Exterior Detail    Mixed Media (Wood, plaster, paint, polyurethane, organic materials, rose scent, drywall, light fixtures, fan, audio loop.)    8’W x 7’-6”H x 15’L    2012   Image credits: Gordon Pellegrinetti.

Aloft (For Jean Honore F.)

‘Aloft (for Jean Honoré F.)’

Mixed Media (Wood, plaster, paint, polyurethane, organic materials, rose scent, drywall, light fixtures, fan, audio loop.)

8’W x 7’-6”H x 15’L

2012

An immersive installation in which the viewer is compelled to adopt a seated, reclining posture in order to fully view (through a framed opening) a scale-model stone masonry tunnel, which recedes upward at a 45 degree angle approximately 15’ into the distance. The shaft is dimly lit at regular intervals and interrupted at a midway point by an intersecting doorway, in which various objects are strewn within the floor matrix (tree branch, swing, female shoe). The objects appear as if ejected from the causeway as a result of some unknown ‘event’ -as if transported from Fragonard’s painting through some ‘black-hole’ of space/time into this ‘Tarkovskian’ construct. A security camera acting as the agent of the tunnel’s self-awareness highlights the intrusion. The piece is an indirect homage to Jean-Honore Fragonard’s iconic painting ‘The Swing’.  In ‘Aloft’, the viewer inhabits the ‘space’ occupied by the upward gazing male ‘suitor’ in Fragonard’s painting. As the piece is glimpsed from the viewer’s fixed vantage, a gentle breeze wafts through the tunnel carrying with it the faint scent of rose petals. At the same time a mechanical droning sound can be faintly heard coursing through the space.

 

Aloft (For Jean Honore F.)

‘Aloft (for Jean Honoré F.)’

Mixed Media (Wood, plaster, paint, polyurethane, organic materials, rose scent, drywall, light fixtures, fan, audio loop.)

8’W x 7’-6”H x 15’L

2012

An immersive installation in which the viewer is compelled to adopt a seated, reclining posture in order to fully view (through a framed opening) a scale-model stone masonry tunnel, which recedes upward at a 45 degree angle approximately 15’ into the distance. The shaft is dimly lit at regular intervals and interrupted at a midway point by an intersecting doorway, in which various objects are strewn within the floor matrix (tree branch, swing, female shoe). The objects appear as if ejected from the causeway as a result of some unknown ‘event’ -as if transported from Fragonard’s painting through some ‘black-hole’ of space/time into this ‘Tarkovskian’ construct. A security camera acting as the agent of the tunnel’s self-awareness highlights the intrusion. The piece is an indirect homage to Jean-Honore Fragonard’s iconic painting ‘The Swing’.  In ‘Aloft’, the viewer inhabits the ‘space’ occupied by the upward gazing male ‘suitor’ in Fragonard’s painting. As the piece is glimpsed from the viewer’s fixed vantage, a gentle breeze wafts through the tunnel carrying with it the faint scent of rose petals. At the same time a mechanical droning sound can be faintly heard coursing through the space.

 

    ‘Aloft (for Jean Honoré F.)’     Exterior Detail    Mixed Media (Wood, plaster, paint, polyurethane, organic materials, rose scent, drywall, light fixtures, fan, audio loop.)    8’W x 7’-6”H x 15’L    2012   Image credits: Gordon Pellegrinetti.

‘Aloft (for Jean Honoré F.)’ Exterior Detail

Mixed Media (Wood, plaster, paint, polyurethane, organic materials, rose scent, drywall, light fixtures, fan, audio loop.)

8’W x 7’-6”H x 15’L

2012

Image credits: Gordon Pellegrinetti.

    ‘Aloft (for Jean Honoré F.)’     Viewer Orientation Detail    Mixed Media (Wood, plaster, paint, polyurethane, organic materials, rose scent, drywall, light fixtures, fan, audio loop.)    8’W x 7’-6”H x 15’L    2012   Image credits: Gordon Pellegrinetti.

‘Aloft (for Jean Honoré F.)’ Viewer Orientation Detail

Mixed Media (Wood, plaster, paint, polyurethane, organic materials, rose scent, drywall, light fixtures, fan, audio loop.)

8’W x 7’-6”H x 15’L

2012

Image credits: Gordon Pellegrinetti.

    ‘Aloft (for Jean Honoré F.)’     Interior Tunnel View    Mixed Media (Wood, plaster, paint, polyurethane, organic materials, rose scent, drywall, light fixtures, fan, audio loop.)    8’W x 7’-6”H x 15’L    2012   Image credits: Gordon Pellegrinetti.

‘Aloft (for Jean Honoré F.)’ Interior Tunnel View

Mixed Media (Wood, plaster, paint, polyurethane, organic materials, rose scent, drywall, light fixtures, fan, audio loop.)

8’W x 7’-6”H x 15’L

2012

Image credits: Gordon Pellegrinetti.

    ‘Aloft (for Jean Honoré F.)’     Interior Detail at Ejecta Field    Mixed Media (Wood, plaster, paint, polyurethane, organic materials, rose scent, drywall, light fixtures, fan, audio loop.)    8’W x 7’-6”H x 15’L    2012   Image credits: Gordon Pellegrinetti.

‘Aloft (for Jean Honoré F.)’ Interior Detail at Ejecta Field

Mixed Media (Wood, plaster, paint, polyurethane, organic materials, rose scent, drywall, light fixtures, fan, audio loop.)

8’W x 7’-6”H x 15’L

2012

Image credits: Gordon Pellegrinetti.

 Jean-Honore Fragonard    'The Swing'    1787  The Wallace Collection, London

Jean-Honore Fragonard

'The Swing'

1787

The Wallace Collection, London

    ‘Aloft (for Jean Honoré F.)’     Section View     Graphite & Ink on Paper    8 x 12 Inches    2012    

‘Aloft (for Jean Honoré F.)’ Section View 

Graphite & Ink on Paper

8 x 12 Inches

2012

 

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