transients, 1997
a good proportion of the images produced up to now reveals the search
for some kind of relationship with the sky, and result in a set of actions which allows us to understand how we perceive it and react to its activities – for instance colours and tonalities, the presence of the moon, cloud shapes, the force and direction of the winds, the position of the stars…
however, although we understand the meaning and importance of such images, with time they have come to represent increasingly less frequent experiences in large metropolises.
on a night with a new moon rising, 8 spheres are hoisted and transported by 8 helicopters – one craft per sphere – to a certain spot in the city sky…
[each sphere is suspended by a steel cable, dozens of meters in length. they are between 5 and 8 meters in diameter, and are built of aluminium, covered by translucent plastic material. a large number of white light bulbs
are fixed inside]
kept at the same height – hundreds of metres from the ground, and positioned as if they formed a ‘constellation’, they are lit up simultaneously by radio signal. the helicopters remain immobile for some time, each one maintaining its position, with the luminous spheres hanging down… these are then switched off and the helicopters move to another point in the city. once a new arrangement is organized, the helicopters are immobile again and the spheres are re-lit.
the action is repeated several times on the same night… each one with the spheres placed in a different formation.
rubens mano
transients, 1997
a good proportion of the images produced up to now reveals the search
for some kind of relationship with the sky, and result in a set of actions which allows us to understand how we perceive it and react to its activities – for instance colours and tonalities, the presence of the moon, cloud shapes, the force and direction of the winds, the position of the stars…
however, although we understand the meaning and importance of such images, with time they have come to represent increasingly less frequent experiences in large metropolises.
on a night with a new moon rising, 8 spheres are hoisted and transported by 8 helicopters – one craft per sphere – to a certain spot in the city sky…
[each sphere is suspended by a steel cable, dozens of meters in length. they are between 5 and 8 meters in diameter, and are built of aluminium, covered by translucent plastic material. a large number of white light bulbs
are fixed inside]
kept at the same height – hundreds of metres from the ground, and positioned as if they formed a ‘constellation’, they are lit up simultaneously by radio signal. the helicopters remain immobile for some time, each one maintaining its position, with the luminous spheres hanging down… these are then switched off and the helicopters move to another point in the city. once a new arrangement is organized, the helicopters are immobile again and the spheres are re-lit.
the action is repeated several times on the same night… each one with the spheres placed in a different formation.
rubens mano