Opera catastrofica in tre atti

This work portraies three moments of the same apocalyptic event.
Three frames, three sequences of a storyboard, of a three-dimensional screenplay, which Gabriele has modeled in red clay in an urgent and fresh way,like a sketch.
We don’t know what has just happened, we can see what happens next.
A big miniaturized city is on fire.
Destruction and decay, the entropy of nature that envelops the skeletons of buildings and regains its possession.
The man is no longer there, the forms of life he claimed to dominate now inhabit his spaces.
An apocalyptic image which lives in our imagination. We can observe this work from above,taking metaphorically distances, or we can make ourselves small and immerse ourselves in the burning city. Or we can imagine the noise of the growing vegetation. Or even we can pretend to be the tiny dog ​​and feel the fresh air caressing our fur while we are observing the ruins from above in the third and final scene.

In any case we cannot ignore how much this story belongs to us and involves us.
Wherever you look at it, this is a story that has already happened and will probably happen again.
The dystopian image of the first scene gives way to an open, inevitable but regenerating and almost reassuring final vision. A sort of utopia in which man is not contemplated:the nature that grows silent.

text by Caterina Sbrana