> GABRIELE TOSI (ita)
The Extreme Challenge
4:56
2014
Between two old fashioned chimneys hangs a sculpture of colored cables: apparently a spider web stretched between the vestiges of an industrial civilization that no longer exists; but in hindsight, perhaps, a radiant sun, above whose disk the tightrope walker will pass, near the end of the path. The way out from the end of an industrial era is a narrow, dangerous and uncertain path to the point, that can be effectively represented by the metaphor of a tightrope walker who must cross an abyss walking on a thin wire stretched at high altitudes.