He gets too close to the glass artwork and destroys

He gets too close to the glass artwork and destroys it. The author worked on it for 10 years News

“It’s not just a sculpture or an installation – the artist, 42-year-old Francesco Cavaliere from Piombino (Livorno) explained to the newspaper – but a real musical instrument

He gets too close to the glass artwork and destroys it.  The author had been working on it for 10 years

A scene from the film Mr Bean, The Last Catastrophe

Sometimes reality trumps fantasy. During the finissage of the exhibition “Wunderkind‘ to the sea, the Art Museum of Ravenna, a spectator hit one of the main works – “Xilena”, it is a composition of blown glass trumpets – with his backpack and smashed it. A bit like Mr. Bean’s Final Disaster when Bean approaches The Mother and accidentally ruins it for good by tearing a hole in the middle of the frame.

A similar thing happened last Sunday in front of several witnesses. The viewer – as the Corriere di Romagna reports – with the ear yes would be too close to any of the horns to pick up the sound emanating from the installation: but in the end, turning abruptly to leave, he would have hit the frangible element and caused a domino effect on the other trumpets. Xilema, founded in 2012, took over various forms over time and only in the summer of 2022 this one had arrived: three glass trumpets supported on stands and equipped with an audio amplification system.

It’s not just a sculpture or an installation – explained the artist, 42-year-old Francesco Cavaliere from Piombino (Livorno) to the newspaper – but from a real musical instrument that I brought to various concerts and sound performances, such as the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. Xilema is special to me, I care deeply about it and what happened has caused me immense anger. But when we are confronted with such fragile works, certain things can happen.”