IIS Da Vinci, LS Avogadro – Rome

The work is a sound installation created with two neo-classic parabolas hosted by the Sapienza University Museum of Physics. Two speakers have been placed on their focal points to sound a musical piece entitled Black Flower, composed by students in the classes that participated in the labs on the carbon footprint held by the artist with the supervision of Physicist Massimo Margotti.

The song lyrics were composed with key words on the carbon footprint, revealing the fluid relationship between scientific, artistic and everyday issues.

Mariagrazia Pontorno
Mariagrazia Pontorno (Catania, 1978) lives and works in Rome. Since 2004 she has taught Multimedia at the Accademia di Belle Arti. In recent years her research has been particularly focused on the use of 3D animation, in order to create images that recall everyday life and the passage of time. The 3D medium is ideal to evoke visual paradox: all that seems to be familiar, safe and well known, suddenly becomes distant, extraneous and uncanny. Thanks to the use of 3D technology and sophisticated video animation software, Mariagrazia Pontorno builds real-seeming settings inspired by a poetic vision, in which the borders between fiction and reality are lyrically blurred.
Her work has been shown in Italian and international museums