Aprons, stars and new kinds of stardust by Pericle Guaglianone To imagine a romantic Friedrich-style landscape today, in all its splendour and ruin, one must consider the past two centuries of the history of the image, until conceptual art and beyound. The work of art began to discuss itself rather than the outside world when it was defined as an "event" (heidegger), an experience inherent to life ( the "arena of happenings" as critics described Pollock's canvas), "ruin, or the promise of ruin" (Marc Augé, the theorist of the non-place in Rovine,published after the 9/11); After Duchamps metalinguistic revolution, anything that happens in the World-of-Artwork, became art. In this manner is Corpus, by PATRICIA CARMO BALTAZAR CORREA, an installation in which a series of aprons records - and why not - even tells us about the different experiences of everydaylife. Hanging upside down, these aprons become the anthropometry of life, demonstrating the importance of collecting and showing them, rather than interpreting this existencial dimension of a workday. They are silent and stoic hourglasses communicating the particles of time - the worker emerging over a work period, as stains. These pre-fabs transport the viewer to a compelling metaphor, while seemingly suspended in mid-air, like one out-on-a-limb. A star glows in these upside-down aprons, and shows us a new kind of celestial chart, which one by one, becomes a pattern of a part and counterpart (the marks Beuys called Gegenbild). Here, unlike the sculpture of Gilberto Zorio, with their relaxed amd solemn physiognomy, arms and legs splayed, many abandoned yet dauntless bodies dangle in the air - limb from limb, together with the stories of their livelihoods. Rome, November 2005. translated by Kyralesa Claire Wiley PATRICIA CARMO BALTAZAR CORREA WORKS moleskine detour 2008 madre 2008 daimon's walk 2008 unsichtbares wesen 2007 lion line 2007 bucato 2006 corpus 2005 drawings 2002-2008 CONTACT cv and e-mail TEXTS roberto annecchini - madre - (italiano) raffaella guidobono - sentiero del daimon - (italiano) | (english) eleonora di erasmo - unsichtabers wesen - (italiano) raffaella guidobono- corpus - (italiano) | (english) pericle guaglianone -corpus (italiano) | (english) eleonora di erasmo - bucato (italiano) | (english) eleonora di erasmo - pau brasil - (italiano) fabio moreira leite - landscapes for zora - (português) uemon ikeda - (italiano) rossella caruso - corpus (italiano) andrea antoniazza - critica d'arte (italiano) artist's statement (english) credits