Flying False Colors / Marsèlleria
Directly from Chelsea Art Museum and Biennal of Visual Art Performance, Ny, Marsèlleria launches Carlo Zanni personal exhibition “Flying False Colors” on December 1st, 6pm.
Zanni presents a multiplatform project that unravels and shows the plot between oil consumption, politcs and ecological problems of thirty Nations observed by Joint Oil Data Initiative, an institution founded in 2001 to count the quantity of oil demanded every month from major world consumers.
In the quiet of Marsèlleria Permanent Exhibition, the whoosh of a flag connected to a computer and a compressor is the disturbing visual and sound transposition of the continuous waste of world oil resources.
Flying False Colors (The Sixth Day) freely takes inspiration from Sydney Pollack’s “Three Days of the Condor” (1975), one of the first movies suggesting the link between US secret military operations and control over oil production in the Middle East.
Flag design directly comes from Ecology Flag (1969), which will gradually change his color during the exhibition, as an example of “flying false colors”, the act of sailing under a flag to deceive the enemy.
Text by Elisa Lusso – Image from Carlo Zanni, Flying False Colors (The Sixth Day), 2009 – Installation views and details from Chelsea Art Museum’s project room, New York, Oct 2009 – Photo by Fedele Spadafora. Courtesy of Collection Angela and Massimo Lauro, Il Giardino Dei Lauri