Grotesque Genes

  • Angelo Paterno
This year I was fortunate to work in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum for a spatial proposition that would resonate with a particular historical period and site inside the museum.
Our studio focused on the relationship between materiality and occupation, real and the imagined and the design of a choreographed intervention
The grotesque was often a mix of human, animal and plants that were often showed with the aid of the artist as the natural world with an extravagant and playful look.
To me represent a real entanglement with nature in its most primordial and whimsical way.
The necessity to feel in contact with nature and be part of it has brought an interest for gardens and grottoes.
The work was choreographically tested initially in differents picturesque landscape where nature could be projected in the surface of the mirroring object and ultimately inside the John Madejsky garden at the V&A creating an experience where time bridges architecture and the viewer the viewed.