Danilo Bastione

Vase der Welt

2024

Museum Mineralogia Munich

Under the title "Vase der Welt" (Vase of the World), the concepts of recycling and transformation of elements are explored, under the philosophical question "What are we and what could we be?" 

This work enables us to engage with the proprieties of the earth and reflect in the invisible and constant change around us, bridging poetry and science."
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The Museum Mineralogia Munich had some minerals that due to an uncertain origin could not be archived or exhibited in the collection.

It was be a perfect opportunity to "archive" them in this stones of cement, like archeological founds that involve this minerals through sedimentation processes.

++ The vase, initially conceived with an external function, took a different path, adapting to the internal structures of the museum, like the vitrines that contains the minerals.
The metallic structure recalls the elementary cells of the crystalline structures of minerals, which repeat in a modular and geometric way.

This modular shape allows it to divide.
During the exhibition period, "pieces" of the vase will be moved in different places, including outdoors, or connected to one or more events.

To make possible the engage with the properties of the earth and to reflect on the invisible and constant change around us.
I thought of using synesthesia. Through the concept of the Russian composer Scriabin, who connected Goethe's color circle with 12 notes based precisely on the intensity of the "tones".
I "played" these stones. A thin section of granite with different polarization filters photographed under the microscope.

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Foto credit:
Barbara Donaubauer, Florian Huth, Danilo Bastione

Project funded by the Erwin and Gisela Steiner Foundation and supported by the Museum Mineralogia Munich.