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| Corruptibilis Hominis 2 . River Bank ®2007 | museum lapidarium | TINA B. 2007 The Prague Contemporary Art Festival - Prague (CZ) | ®2007 |
"Corruptibilis Hominis 2" . "River Bank" is a Site-specific sound & light installation (Aluminium plates, T-L Neon, Nylon line, Rotating electric engines, 1Euro coin - 200x200cm). devised as "spatial object" it revives the story of a remarkable figure from the Czech medieval times, Duke (Saint) Wenceslaus, a man that was able to avoid major conflicts and wars by simply buying(corrupting?) his neighboring enemies.

In the light of such evidence, the elements with which this installation has been developed – laser-perforated aluminum plates, t-l neon tubes, nylon lines, rotating electric engines, 1 Euro coin - serve as a game-machine for the onlooker to visually play with the ideas behind this work.
Thanks to a very straightforward message(text) that reveals itself on the top of the laser-perforated metal plate, it is inevitable for the viewer not to interpret this work as a sound - yet not moralistic - critic to the most wicked of human attitudes… The texts and the coin, randomly dancing on the plates, ironically enact the never-ending show of the modern man dealing with his sense of guilt and with the inability of accepting his own well-known and fundamentally corruptible character. There is nothing more painful for one to realize how little has changed in the mind of that “fragile man” that once in the past successfully managed to superimpose his presence on the earth and, what’s worse, on the expenses of other creatures, …often on the expenses of his own kinds. (F.A. ©2007)

Rosanna Musumeci on this work: “…The title of the artwork is on a aluminum plate, lying on the floor.
In fact, it appears to have fallen onto the floor, as the remains of the cords by which it was once held are still in place…But where had it hung? — in another, perhaps divine, world, though as imperfect as the human one. A telling proclamation
of the universality of evil, in the specific form of corruption, its symbol and tool — a 1 Euro coin — dances over the plate, and resounds in the space while the all setting is illuminated by a chilling neon-light. The whole underlines a critical judgment, though one that is far from radical, but more understanding, mildly cynical: since defectiveness and guilt are human qualities, men should try to come to terms with their nature as peacefully as possible...”

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