Luca Campestri 卢卡·坎佩斯特里
The dreamer slept but did not dream 梦者沉睡却未曾做梦, 2024
direct printing on retro-reflective fabric 直接印刷于反光织物
18 x 24 cm
7 x 9 1/2 in
7 x 9 1/2 in
The series 'The dreamer slept but did not dream' (2024) consists of a set of visual fragments, reflections on the nature of vision itself. The sensitivity of the owl's visual...
The series "The dreamer slept but did not dream" (2024) consists of a set of visual fragments, reflections on the nature of vision itself. The sensitivity of the owl's visual apparatus is replicated by the quality of the retro-reflective support, activated by the movements of the viewer or by changes in lighting. The image presents a literary topos, that of entering the nocturnal forest, torch in hand, in search. Surrounding the viewer is a set of fairy-tale animals, symbolic but also real, part of the artist's personal archive.
The series evokes the ambiguity of a threshold condition, a hypnagogic state, the paradox inherent in the inability to distinguish night from day, dream and wakefulness: the owl, a nocturnal animal, benevolent as well as malevolent in folklore, awake while people dream: an almost hallucinatory vision for the observer who enters the interstice of the threshold. The atmosphere suggested is the sleepless, foggy and surreal one that permeates Vargtimmen (1968) by Ingmar Bergman, in which the protagonist is immersed, unable to distinguish dream from reality. The three small icons outline a sort of perceptive rhythm, a visual intensity that grows in the three images and ends in a silent and dreamless sleep.
Luca Campestri (b. 1999, Florence) is an Italo-German artist based in Bologna, Italy, where he attended courses in Decoration - Art and Environment as well as Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts.
His research spans various mediums, namely video, photographic and sound installations, with a central focus on the concept of the specter as a partial being: an entity that no longer exists or is yet to exist, but whose effects persist or precede their enactment. Consequently, Campestri's works are often configured as the imprint left by a memory that is fading and stage affective places and dynamics of both mnemonic and image disintegration.
《梦者沉睡却未曾做梦》由一系列视觉碎片构成，旨在探讨视觉本质的含义。坎佩斯特里利用反光材料模拟猫头鹰的视觉感知。这种材料会随着观者的移动和光线的变化而呈现不同的光影效果。画面呈现了一个富有文学色彩的主题——手持火把进入夜晚的森林，探索未知。观众周遭被既具有象征意义又与现实相结合的童话动物环绕，这些动物均源自艺术家的个人摄影档案。
这一系列作品唤起了阈限状态的模糊感，营造出一种临睡前的状态，探索夜与昼、梦与醒之间无法区分的悖论。猫头鹰是夜行性动物，在民间传说中既是善良的象征，也是邪恶的存在。它在黑夜中保持清醒，而人们却陷入梦乡——对进入这一阈限空间的观察者来说，这一景象如同幻觉。作品的氛围如同无眠的迷雾，超现实而难以捉摸，仿佛英格玛·伯格曼的《午夜阳光》（1968）中主人公所沉浸于的无法辨别梦境与现实的环境中。三幅小图标描绘了一种感知节奏，一种逐渐增强但却在一场寂静无梦的睡眠中悄然结束的视觉强度。
卢卡·坎佩斯特里（Luca Campestri，1999年出生于意大利佛罗伦萨）是一位意大利-德国艺术家，现居博洛尼亚。他曾就读于博洛尼亚美术学院，学习装饰-艺术与环境以及视觉艺术课程。
他的创作涵盖视频、摄影和声音装置等多种媒介，核心关注点是幽灵作为一种残缺的存在——它是一个已然消逝或尚未成形的独立体，但其影响却在它存在之前已然弥漫，或在其泯灭之后久久不散。因此，坎佩斯特里的作品常常像是消失中的记忆所留下的淡影，描绘情感场域，呈现记忆与影像的崩解。
The series evokes the ambiguity of a threshold condition, a hypnagogic state, the paradox inherent in the inability to distinguish night from day, dream and wakefulness: the owl, a nocturnal animal, benevolent as well as malevolent in folklore, awake while people dream: an almost hallucinatory vision for the observer who enters the interstice of the threshold. The atmosphere suggested is the sleepless, foggy and surreal one that permeates Vargtimmen (1968) by Ingmar Bergman, in which the protagonist is immersed, unable to distinguish dream from reality. The three small icons outline a sort of perceptive rhythm, a visual intensity that grows in the three images and ends in a silent and dreamless sleep.
Luca Campestri (b. 1999, Florence) is an Italo-German artist based in Bologna, Italy, where he attended courses in Decoration - Art and Environment as well as Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts.
His research spans various mediums, namely video, photographic and sound installations, with a central focus on the concept of the specter as a partial being: an entity that no longer exists or is yet to exist, but whose effects persist or precede their enactment. Consequently, Campestri's works are often configured as the imprint left by a memory that is fading and stage affective places and dynamics of both mnemonic and image disintegration.
《梦者沉睡却未曾做梦》由一系列视觉碎片构成，旨在探讨视觉本质的含义。坎佩斯特里利用反光材料模拟猫头鹰的视觉感知。这种材料会随着观者的移动和光线的变化而呈现不同的光影效果。画面呈现了一个富有文学色彩的主题——手持火把进入夜晚的森林，探索未知。观众周遭被既具有象征意义又与现实相结合的童话动物环绕，这些动物均源自艺术家的个人摄影档案。
这一系列作品唤起了阈限状态的模糊感，营造出一种临睡前的状态，探索夜与昼、梦与醒之间无法区分的悖论。猫头鹰是夜行性动物，在民间传说中既是善良的象征，也是邪恶的存在。它在黑夜中保持清醒，而人们却陷入梦乡——对进入这一阈限空间的观察者来说，这一景象如同幻觉。作品的氛围如同无眠的迷雾，超现实而难以捉摸，仿佛英格玛·伯格曼的《午夜阳光》（1968）中主人公所沉浸于的无法辨别梦境与现实的环境中。三幅小图标描绘了一种感知节奏，一种逐渐增强但却在一场寂静无梦的睡眠中悄然结束的视觉强度。
卢卡·坎佩斯特里（Luca Campestri，1999年出生于意大利佛罗伦萨）是一位意大利-德国艺术家，现居博洛尼亚。他曾就读于博洛尼亚美术学院，学习装饰-艺术与环境以及视觉艺术课程。
他的创作涵盖视频、摄影和声音装置等多种媒介，核心关注点是幽灵作为一种残缺的存在——它是一个已然消逝或尚未成形的独立体，但其影响却在它存在之前已然弥漫，或在其泯灭之后久久不散。因此，坎佩斯特里的作品常常像是消失中的记忆所留下的淡影，描绘情感场域，呈现记忆与影像的崩解。