Passando davanti al 193 di Grand Street non potrete non notare questa vetrina piena di palle nere. Si tratta di una piccola galleria, la Parker’s Box. Nello specifico, questa installazione di plastica gonfiata si tratta del frutto del genio di tre menti europee: Pierre Ardouvin (France), Edith Dekyndt (Belgium) e Gereon Lepper (Germany).
When visiting an exhibition of Claudio Parmiggiani at Le Couvent des Bernardins, in Paris, the curator was struck by the idea that some works of art, when considered for a while, end up giving the impression that they are alive, that they seem to have a mind, an autonomy and a soul of their own… They seem to have a life, independent of the decisions of their creators. They have the ability to mesmerize us, without the need for high technology or interactive systems, by their strange, magical and sometimes whimsical presence. The spectator’s willingness to spend time absorbing the personalities, movement, colors, and the artworks’ very existence is the sole key to a new realm of fascination. The works on display at Parker’s Box are ultimately “only” objects, or matter, animated by somebody else’s will and not their own. Inanimate in the sense that they have no “anima”, or soul, they nonetheless, oscillate between the surrealist question: “Inanimate objects, do you have a soul?” and the archaic belief of animism.
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