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S-845
year 1987
material glass, metal, plastic
source title Carlo Forcolini: Immaginare Le Cose
info It reconsiders an out of fashion model, that of the pendulum clock. I have reduced to the minimum the bearing structure for giving more emphasis to the plastic body, which, hold by two very thin cables made of steel, seems to fluctuate in the air. And this is just as the time, our “suspended” time which fluctuates between a beginning and an end which we ignore; a time which watches us: a “voyeur” of own life. A painting of Magritte representing the sky with fugitive clouds has been reproduced on the dial-plate. It represents the perceived duplicity of the artificial time (the abstract and conventional pendulum clock) and the time of nature; on the back a mirror allows us to find again our “out of time” image. 2. Detail of the eye-clock 3–4. Sketches 5. Copy of the well-known ‘Golconda’ of René Magritte painted by Armando Forcolini. In the sky the managers with the bowler have been substituted with Le Voyeur. 6. Floor clock. Black painted steel frame. Clock housing in rigid, black painted structural polyurethane.
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year 1987
material glass, metal, plastic
source title Carlo Forcolini: Immaginare Le Cose
info It reconsiders an out of fashion model, that of the pendulum clock. I have reduced to the minimum the bearing structure for giving more emphasis to the plastic body, which, hold by two very thin cables made of steel, seems to fluctuate in the air. And this is just as the time, our “suspended” time which fluctuates between a beginning and an end which we ignore; a time which watches us: a “voyeur” of own life. A painting of Magritte representing the sky with fugitive clouds has been reproduced on the dial-plate. It represents the perceived duplicity of the artificial time (the abstract and conventional pendulum clock) and the time of nature; on the back a mirror allows us to find again our “out of time” image. 2. Detail of the eye-clock 3–4. Sketches 5. Copy of the well-known ‘Golconda’ of René Magritte painted by Armando Forcolini. In the sky the managers with the bowler have been substituted with Le Voyeur. 6. Floor clock. Black painted steel frame. Clock housing in rigid, black painted structural polyurethane.
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