ANTHROPOMETRY OF THE VOID – pietro abbagnato

HONORABLE MENTION IN CONCEPTUAL

pietro abbagnato

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ANTHROPOMETRY OF THE VOID

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Act I: The Dune

Moving away from the abstraction of the marine horizon, my research shifts toward the mineral dimension of the dune. Here, I seek to transform the landscape from a simple location into an abstract space.

The title evokes the influence of Yves Klein: if for the French artist the body was the unit of measurement for the canvas, here I use the figure of model Jenny Zanetti as a phenomenological tool to quantify the infinite. Her presence does not dominate the horizon but is embedded within it like a graphic mark—a black hieroglyph set against a High-Key white background.

Through seven acts, I stage a liturgy of disappearance. The umbrella, evolving from a shield of identity to an abandoned object, marks the transition from presence to the absolute, until the void ultimately reclaims the scene.

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