Sparkling Matter

This artwork featured in The Precious Clay (2019). 

Each of the unusual pure white objects in Sparkling Matter is the ‘portrait’ of an actual dream. They are the result of a riveting experimental process, aimed at giving dreams a shape and a voice. Nasini, who has been experimenting with sound and music for decades, recorded a group of participants’ brain activity through electroencephalography during their sleep, especially during the dream phase. He then used audio conversion software to transform the data into sound, creating a music score and projected graphics for public performances.

The final phase of this process is the porcelain vessels. Nasini transposed the EEG dream recordings through a landscaper’s geometric software and, tilting them on an axis, created 3D prints and moulds that eventually became the ‘dream shaped’ vessels you can see here.

The choice of porcelain is not incidental, again, the values carried by The Precious Clay are fully used: changeability, preciousness, mystery, inherent strength and fragility.

Image: Matteo Nasini, Sparkling Matter, porcelain, 2017. Image courtesy the artist. 

 

About the artist

Matteo Nasini

Matteo Nasini exhibited in The Precious Clay, Museum of Royal Worcester, 2019. 

Image: Matteo Nasini, Sparkling Matter, 2017. Porcelain. Courtesy the artist, Clima Gallery, Milan & Operativa, Rome.