Triennale di Milano Triennale di Milano Showroom


"If I want to be myself I need to find someone equal to me, inside of me", with these words Emilio Cavallini welcomes people who will be visiting his art exhibition which is scheduled to be held from the 16th to 27th of February in Milan at the art gallery "Triennale".

The path that the artist is choosing to take is going to be rather suggestive thus taking in consideration the small spaces given to him by the Triennale.

His exhibition is going to have as a main piece a central installation that the public is going to be able to admire whilst is made.

Cavallini in fact is going to start making this central piece a few days before the inauguration of the gallery and will keep on going as the public starts visiting.

This installation in its own creative expression of the mind could be considered as a "mental trip", which in its own universe inspired by the "Le Modulor de Le Corbusier" (The Modulor is an anthropometric scale of proportions devised by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier) takes inspiration by real human proportions.

Cavallini granted us time to explain his approach to his central installation: "Above a squared platform 4 by 4 a structure made out of plexiglass of 231cm is going to be built. The height of the structure is going to be calculated using the "Le Modulor de Le Corbusier" deriving from this scheme measures, geometrical proportions and mathematical proportions relative to the human body; in this case my height (180cm) plus half my arm span. I will unify the walls of the parallelepiped with kilometers of grey strings, mathematically calculated, in a way to leave an empty space for a niche that could theoretically contain my own body.I want to obtain an imaginary room in which its space will be fractionated from thousands of strings that will only leave in the middle my own persona. it's an installation that is born from a reflection of all that I have seen and lived not only art wise. My ideas will merge together with mathematics and architectural principals to create a unique reflection of my own self.

This art work is part of a new kind of Suprematism and abstract constructivism taking place in the present time. The absence of color seen in many tonalities of grey shows the object that is seen but you can't picture it you can only feel it.

This is how you create an object outside the art boundaries ready to communicate with whoever finds himself on the same wave length. This is where art is the man and art is the representation of its persona".

The idea that the artist wants to give with this cube constructed in front of the viewer is to indicate an existential path careless of limits or boundaries, a place where you can do whatever you want and your only necessity is to understand the route you want to take. The strings in the installation represent a path, the infinite length of it represents the time necessary to achieve the dream of a lifetime.

This is why the introduction to the art gallery was made from the thoughts of the artist, this is why it's so important to establish a dialogue between the public especially with an installation in progress,he's trying to build a continuous interchange between the people.