Éclipses (1985-1999) consists of sixteen invitation cards on which Gianno Motti announces total eclipses of the moon or sun, specifying the date and time of the event with a precision that is as fictional as it is credible. Three posters and four colour photographs accompany this series—one of Motti’s first interventions along with the claiming of responsibility for earthquakes.
By these creative means, he claims responsibility for phenomena, declaring himself to be the perpetrator of an event he neither produced nor orchestrated. Post-dated up to 2081, these declarations in several languages are invitations to an ephemeral group experience, and show the artist’s deep fascination with the spectacles of nature.
Always interweaving real and invented elements, Motti cultivates irony and misunderstanding to better undermine the things we take to be obvious. In its boundlessness, his action territory mirrors the art it manifests.
By these creative means, he claims responsibility for phenomena, declaring himself to be the perpetrator of an event he neither produced nor orchestrated. Post-dated up to 2081, these declarations in several languages are invitations to an ephemeral group experience, and show the artist’s deep fascination with the spectacles of nature.
Always interweaving real and invented elements, Motti cultivates irony and misunderstanding to better undermine the things we take to be obvious. In its boundlessness, his action territory mirrors the art it manifests.
