Claudia Losi. Caleidoscopi; Allora la luna

Images of the various phases of the moon from full moon to waning moon to crescent moon.

Losi conceived two projects: the first, titled Caleidoscopi (Kaleidoscopes), involved the construction of a series of wooden cases in balsa, a lightweight and warm material, inside
which was placed a kaleidoscope. In the words of the artist, published in the catalogue, "The form of these cases is the result of the three-dimensional profile of one combination created by a colorful kaleidoscope. As if it was getingt up volumetrically from the floor to the top, it might look like the complex boundary of a snowflake".
The second project , Allora la luna (Then the moon), imagined the installation of a large moon, a luminous and round sign with a diameter of two meters and the visible face of the moon printed in its outer surface. A small internal engine regulates the switching on and off of neon lamps - whose light should be warm - ensuring the vision of the moon in its various phases: waxing moon , full moon, waning moon. The moon would have been installed on a gray wall visible from some of the rooms in the new hospital department, that limited the vision of hills to patients.
The aim of both projects is to propose a possible moment of escape and distraction to the children, stimulating their imagination with colorful images, always changing, or with a big moon, a fabulous artificial input to the imagination, even of a possible world with two moons. In the pages of the catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition at GAM, Losi adds to the images some imaginary dialogues, related to the two projects.