To coincide with the Salone del Mobile design week, Cadogan Gallery will be displaying a monumental sculpture of mine in the courtyard of the gallery in Milan.
MOMENTO is a double-monolith, two stones apparently poised one on top of the other. The intention is to immortalise an instant, to capture the moment and the absence of time, the ephemeral moment in which the two stones seem to fall. Time dilates and space compresses. At the same time it comes alive, it yearns. The static nature of the stone becomes dynamic, and the precariousness creates movement, takes on inertia and becomes alive. They are synonymous and opposite.
Stone balancing is the ability to place stones of various shapes and different weights in balance, but the theory is more complex, there are games of forces and pushes that counteract, balance and correct each other, with only one law: gravity.
It starts with breathing, something we have yet to learn to do; so said Giordano Bruno in the 16th century. The monks in Tibet knew as far back as the 6th century B.C. what this meant; it is thought that this is where the principle of this form of meditation lies: the art of balancing stones.
The granite of the Island of Elba has been known since time immemorial for its technical and structural qualities; so much so that as Giorgio Vasari tells us that seven of the great columns of the Pantheon were carved with this ‘granodiorite'. Some columns of Elban granite were also found during archaeological excavations of a Domus in the gardens of the Quirinal, the Palatine and the Colosseum. It was later used by the Pisans to adorn their cathedral and by the Medici family for the altar of San Lorenzo and the Boboli Gardens.
Sono Etrusco
Where do you come from?
I come from a land overlooking the mare Tirreno, a place called Etruria. Our gods are the sun and the moon, the sea and the wind, the lightning.
But, who are you?
I am a Fulguratores, a spiritual chief.
We have the task of observing the trajectory of lightning, and there are many reasons why we do so. One of them is that lightning is attracted to minerals, and by observing its shape and direction we can reach the metals in the ground, for example. But most of all, lightning, like all celestial manifestations, has an influence on human life.
On many granite islands, ancient cultures knew that the electrical discharge of lightning can reactivate water sources, the water trapped in the rock strata. Granite contains silicium, and various other minerals that are sensitive to the electricity, these elements vibrate even with just a bolt of lightning in the sky.
The stone responds to the vibration, moves, and the water begins to flow, and all this can happen in the middle of summer, without even a drop of rain falling. Everything depends on vibration, in this case electricity. Electricity is a vibration and has a frequency, and everything vibrates, everything pulsates, everything that pulses is alive. Rhythm is the manifestation of that.
Stone vibrates at a very high frequency, much more than man. It is more alive than we are! We vibrate. We emanate a frequency that influences our surroundings. Our thoughts for example, are electrical impulses, they are literally waves! And waves are a displacement of energy not matter. What you today call Empathy, are waves that we emanate and receive. We are sounds!
Also each colour is a sound. The sound to be harmonic must have a rhythm. Because there is no harmony without rhythm! Think about the changing of the seasons, day and night, your breath, your heart. Listen to it. In the East they know it as duality, there is no shadow without light. This too is rhythm.
Every ancient cultures knew these laws. Us, like the Celts, or like the natives across the ocean, and many other cultures on other continents. I’m Etrurian, but I speak for all of them. It is not a hidden truth, just observe. "The wind speaks to you, listen to it".
This is the highest form of art,
for if art today serves any purpose,
It brings man back to contemplation.
It is the answer to our questions,
it guides the soul in it’s spiritual evolution.
Lorenzo Brinati
To coincide with the Salone del Mobile design week, Cadogan Gallery will be displaying a monumental sculpture of mine in the courtyard of the gallery in Milan.
MOMENTO is a double-monolith, two stones apparently poised one on top of the other. The intention is to immortalise an instant, to capture the moment and the absence of time, the ephemeral moment in which the two stones seem to fall. Time dilates and space compresses. At the same time it comes alive, it yearns. The static nature of the stone becomes dynamic, and the precariousness creates movement, takes on inertia and becomes alive. They are synonymous and opposite.
Stone balancing is the ability to place stones of various shapes and different weights in balance, but the theory is more complex, there are games of forces and pushes that counteract, balance and correct each other, with only one law: gravity.
It starts with breathing, something we have yet to learn to do; so said Giordano Bruno in the 16th century. The monks in Tibet knew as far back as the 6th century B.C. what this meant; it is thought that this is where the principle of this form of meditation lies: the art of balancing stones.
The granite of the Island of Elba has been known since time immemorial for its technical and structural qualities; so much so that as Giorgio Vasari tells us that seven of the great columns of the Pantheon were carved with this ‘granodiorite'. Some columns of Elban granite were also found during archaeological excavations of a Domus in the gardens of the Quirinal, the Palatine and the Colosseum. It was later used by the Pisans to adorn their cathedral and by the Medici family for the altar of San Lorenzo and the Boboli Gardens.
Sono Etrusco
Where do you come from?
I come from a land overlooking the mare Tirreno, a place called Etruria. Our gods are the sun and the moon, the sea and the wind, the lightning.
But, who are you?
I am a Fulguratores, a spiritual chief.
We have the task of observing the trajectory of lightning, and there are many reasons why we do so. One of them is that lightning is attracted to minerals, and by observing its shape and direction we can reach the metals in the ground, for example. But most of all, lightning, like all celestial manifestations, has an influence on human life.
On many granite islands, ancient cultures knew that the electrical discharge of lightning can reactivate water sources, the water trapped in the rock strata. Granite contains silicium, and various other minerals that are sensitive to the electricity, these elements vibrate even with just a bolt of lightning in the sky.
The stone responds to the vibration, moves, and the water begins to flow, and all this can happen in the middle of summer, without even a drop of rain falling. Everything depends on vibration, in this case electricity. Electricity is a vibration and has a frequency, and everything vibrates, everything pulsates, everything that pulses is alive. Rhythm is the manifestation of that.
Stone vibrates at a very high frequency, much more than man. It is more alive than we are! We vibrate. We emanate a frequency that influences our surroundings. Our thoughts for example, are electrical impulses, they are literally waves! And waves are a displacement of energy not matter. What you today call Empathy, are waves that we emanate and receive. We are sounds!
Also each colour is a sound. The sound to be harmonic must have a rhythm. Because there is no harmony without rhythm! Think about the changing of the seasons, day and night, your breath, your heart. Listen to it. In the East they know it as duality, there is no shadow without light. This too is rhythm.
Every ancient cultures knew these laws. Us, like the Celts, or like the natives across the ocean, and many other cultures on other continents. I’m Etrurian, but I speak for all of them. It is not a hidden truth, just observe. "The wind speaks to you, listen to it".
This is the highest form of art,
for if art today serves any purpose,
It brings man back to contemplation.
It is the answer to our questions,
it guides the soul in it’s spiritual evolution.
Lorenzo Brinati
The observation of a stone,
in its simplicity,
not seeing it
but observing it,
can lead to a deeper
perception of ourselves,
and fill for a moment
that void, that need,
and answer the question:
Who are we,
and why are we here?
A tree grows for a hundred
years and more,
to have those delicate
and perfect lines
that represent its soul,
lines that have bent
with every day of wind,
and roots that have absorbed
unimaginable amounts of water,
to then release it into oxygen
that we need to breathe.
And isn't this art?
