Friday 10 April, on the occasion of Esterno Notte, an Exposed event held in collaboration with TAG, Mazzoleni presents Minuto #17 by Andrea Francolino in via Cernaia.
The initiative invites the public to rediscover the urban space through a renewed relationship with the image, while the city will be enlivened by projections on the architecture of the city centre until midnight.
The presentation of the work will continue at Mazzoleni until 24 May 2026.
The Minuto series consists of video works in which 60 images are projected, primarily depicting cracks. Each image changes every second and overlaps with a background element selected by the artist. Each video comprises 60 attempts that, accompanied by a ticking sound, unfold over an existing crack within the space, the vein of a marble slab, or a photograph of a mountain ridge.
Each video is identified by a number corresponding to the new attempt at projection. In Minuto #17 (2025), the 60 images are projected onto a root smoothed by the flowing waters of the Trebbia river.
The work continues the artist’s ongoing reflection on the relationship between human made and natural elements, and therefore between humankind and nature as a whole. Just as no crack is identical to another, and no mountain ridge, coastline or river course is ever the same, it follows that the balance of the whole lies precisely in diversity. A fundamental diversity to be preserved, both in nature and in society.
Fracture here becomes revelation and affirmation of uniqueness, and therefore of identity. The parallel between the unrepeatability of nature and the uniqueness of individuals emerges as a pressing contemporary concern.
In this case, impossible superimposition is not an error but a reciprocal uniqueness, revealing how nature is never reducible to a predefined model.
