Clock

“Clock” belongs to the group of works called “Furniture of the Air” that the sculptor Giovanni Pinosio created specifically in 2017 for the home of a Venetian private individual. Unlike “Chair”, the first work of the series, in which we find the elements of everyday life denying their functionality to offer themselves to the observer as a mere show of shapes, Pinosio’s clock tells us of expectation: the hands of the clock face, suddenly, they stop. Courted but unfaithful, they trade their ticking in exchange for a little understanding. They are waiting for us because they too, for once, want to be waited for. As a metaphor for a more comprehensive time, almost capable of feeling moved in front of its own frenzy, the pendulum bends on its own volume, transforming the present, the past and the future into an architecture capable of listening to itself and listening to us.

A clock that rebels against its own time is the most human thing the artist can offer to our living space, a place where everything becomes possible. The state of things as they are and as we would like them to be. A three-dimensional drawing applied to sculpture using only iron wire is the language that Giovanni Pinosio chooses to evoke this sort of trance in which are the objects themselves that educate us to face time with the same respect with which we suffer, too often, the lack of it.

The work is in natural size. Very light, it can be raised and moved with one hand and can also be hung on a wall. Designed for the interior, the sculpture bears the artist’s signature in wire.