OUT OF THE BOX
Vintage boxes embrace the flight of a butterfly, the changing seasons of a leaf, the delicate breath of a flower. The flight is freedom, the leaf is transformation, the flower is life energy. The viewer is free to open the box and imagine a world without constraints.
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by Gaia Bianchi
OUT OF THE BOX is Caroline Gavazzi’s latest project. The artist now pushes herself beyond two-dimensional boundaries and reaches a three-dimensional artistic format, where photography (always present in her works) collaborates with other materials to perfect the expression of her artistic thought. The butterfly, the focus of her previous project, “flies away” into a new reality.
The box, enclosing an intimate and precious little world, opens up offering a glimpse of the light, hope and freedom of this entirely new environment that wants to be discovered, where all conventional standards disappear, leaving room for prejudice-free thought.
Hence the title, where thinking OUT OF THE BOX means exploring unusual creative ideas that are not limited or kept in check by rules and traditions.
The artist hails from an experience of close exploration of a circumscribed world inside glasshouses, where every movement, evert droplet, every small change represents a slow swing in a microcosm searching for its own stability. Nature will never be able to find its ultimate vital expression, as it is limited by a structure that both enhances optimal growth conditions, but also oppresses them.
This experience led to Caroline’s desire to create a small world narrating a story and communicating emotions, enclosed in “precious” objects characterised by the choice and care she has put into each realisation. Vintage boxes now enclose the flight of a butterfly, a leaf’s change of season, a flower’s delicate breath. Flight is freedom; a leaf is transformation; a flower, vital energy. The spectator is free to open the box and imagine a world without constrictions.
English translation by Chiara Scassa