Danilo Bastione

The Book of Saturday

The Book of saturday
2024
Mixed media
plaster, concrete, found objects

Part of the exhibition „Boden der Tatsachen“ by Kunstarkaden Munich.

Here a scale of intimacy is restored by reinterpreting a book as a technical drawing.
Structures, mechanisms. But instead of valves, tanks and switches, there are the pages of a book.
In some of the pages of this manual, there are also hidden "geometries"...

Chemical formulas that do not describe dogmas and theses but some drugs used to treat mental illnesses.

These are drawn in a hyperbolic way.
A symbolism through chemistry that makes us reflect on our relationship with madness. On how we move through reason and artistic creation.

The book of Saturday - something that you don't read during the week. You read it on Saturday, of your own free will.