Museo di Scienze Naturali, within its design of contemporary artists site-specific solo exhibitions, aimed at bringing to ligh the naturalistic finds preserved, hosts the recent production of Fabio Roncato (Rimini 1982), in dialogue with three fossils from the territory of Brescia, two of which are preserved in the Museum itself.
This is the exhibition project for “Meccaniche della Meraviglia”, an event conceived and directed by Albano Morandi, and now in its 16th edition.
Conducted with Paolo Schirolli, the artist visited the Museum’s collection depot, where the assets of our natural and geological history are preserved: talking with the conservator, Roncato has defined a path that focuses on the meaning of the track, the “trail” left by extinct animals on ancient rocks, a theme and a process that are also centered in his poetics.
From its very title, the exhibition refers to the works specially made by the artist with the use of electric discharge on matter, recalling the Latin language of the Linnean-style binomial nomenclature, used for the determinations of living beings but also of fossils.
Visitors will thus be able to admire three remarkable fossils, such as a Triassic fish and a trail of Permian vertebrates preserved in the Museum and a model of important Permian vertebrate tracks.
These will be in dialogue with the works of the artist: Conscious Thoughts, specifically created for this project and made up by diaphanous slabs on which a dazzling black flash seems to flow, opening and branching itself in bluish waves; Faithful, an installation created in 2017 in the Netherlands, made up of dozens of recycled bricks immersed in blue ink, as to evoke a solid sea or a heavenly vault on which you could walk; Momentum, a series of sculptures that Roncato realizes from 2017 entering the waterways with a case full of liquid wax: water enters the box and shapes the fluid matter, solidifying it.
