Problem Solving Tomassini Selection

Problem Solving by SANDRO TOMASSINI

Problem Solving represents the outcome of an artistic project that brings to its extreme consequences the most distinctive style of Sandro Tomassini's aesthetic research: interactivity. If many of his creations revolve around the idea of tactile usability of his works, with the spectator invited to intervene to modify the structure, this installation, conceived in different shapes and colours, indissolubly combines artistic creation in the strict sense with pure divertissement. We are faced with the total demystification of the object of art conceived as sacred and inviolable, but at the same time, we witness the recovery of its most deepest meaning, precisely through the playful aspect that is intrinsic to it.

As Calvino would say: it is a game, but a very serious one.

The work, with its clean and rigorous lines, which recall Mr Tomassini's youthful experiences in the field of design, has a labyrinthine structure on a square base, with small cylinders sliding along grooves, all identical to each other except one, characterized by thin longitudinal ruts. The Daedalian composition of the base suggests the need to find, along the many possible subjective and unpredictable paths, the only way out, which is on one side of the quadrilateral.

A metaphor of a universal human condition, the installation involves the single cylindrical element (the Subject) relating to all those it meets on its way, touching them, brushing against them, pushing them or being pushed in turn. The path that each spectator-player, as a Subject, follows until exiting the work, is essentially configured, both in a philosophical sense, as a representation of existence, and a playful one, as a starting point of a game, with predefined rules, in all its possible variations.

Dimensions and finishes
Dimensions: cm.71x71x4h.
The Work of Art was created in 2024, using painted wood with acrylic colors.