Amazoom by Luca Trevisani presents two hypotheses of landscape reincarnation, two translations, two strict, entropic protocols of imagination.
"What can't be expressed in color in the dark, in the jungle night becomes a concert. The decibel race in the blackness of the Amazon forest leaves no
escape: without earplugs, sleeping is decidedly impossible. It's a sonic vertigo, a primordial
voice that envelops and captivates. The only antidote that I could think of, partly to try to
resist despair, but perhaps even more to immerse myself in the song of that teeming life, was to
try to describe its voices, its tones, its nuances. So, I turned on my computer and I tried to
transcribe every sound that passed through me, becoming a stenographer in service of that excessive
concert."
For this record Trevisani performed his text score, creating hundreds of scattered
sounds, overlapping and coexisting, until they iammed into a iungle for a screen (Side A). Then,
linking each to a key on his PC keyboard, he typed the text—or rather, he played it—turning
his laptop into an improbable but perfectly exact musical instrument, a ramshackle noise machine
for a domestic wild nature taking shape around,
within, and above his desk: keyboard forest (Side B).
Limited edition of 150 numbered copies.
Luca Trevisani (born 1979 in Verona) is a multidisciplinary artist whose research ranges between sculpture and video, and crosses borderline disciplines such as performing arts, graphics, design, experimental cinema and architecture, in a perpetual magnetic and mutant condition. In his works the historical characteristics of sculpture are questioned or even subverted, in an incessant investigation of matter and its narratives. Trevisani's research is that of an explorer: a freethinker who studies the most diverse and eclectic forms of plastic language with curiosity—but also with detachment – acting on them from the inside although never aspiring to possess them definitively, instead seeking to reveal (and, if possible, to modify) their microphysics. Above all, conserving absolute passion for the practical and social utility of his work and for the great questions that it cultivates: perhaps the real significance of someone who conducts artistic research with authority.
His works have been exhibited in museums and institutions throughout the world. He has published several books, and directed the science-fiction documentary film
Glaucocamaleo (2012). He has written texts and essays on the works of artists such as
Francesco Lo Savio,
Luca Vitone, Giovanni Anceschi, Gianni Colombo,
Liam Gillick, and Mark Manders. He teaches at IUAV in Venice, at the Free University of Bolzano, and at NABA in Milan.
