According to Artslife Spaceman Shine, a sculpture by Filippo Tincolini, plastically represents a dualism inherent in humanity: the desire for the beyond and the connection to our roots. This reflection continues with the works at the main headquarters of the Liquid Art System gallery in Capri, where until September 30th, other Spaceman pieces in various sizes and colors are on display, along with some marble works from the Flowered Soul and Ancient Gods series.
A four-meter-tall astronaut, in a light blue fluorescent color, has landed in the Piazzetta of Capri. We see him standing, legs apart, and arms by his sides. His face is covered—not by the classic helmet, but by dense vegetation that extends across his entire body. Behind him, the sea and the hills of the island form a marvelous landscape that reflects a truly unusual guest.
This is Spaceman Shine, a work created by sculptor Filippo Tincolini, who has chosen a hypertrophic and futuristic form to represent an ambitious concept: the deep dualism that inhabits man, one that juxtaposes the insatiable desire to cross the thresholds of the cosmic unknown with the inescapable call of our earthly origins. Two opposing forces, seemingly irreconcilable, yet coexisting within each of us.
These reflections emerge in the sunlight as one heads towards the beach, or in the evening while strolling through the famous Piazzetta, each time someone encounters Spaceman. With his pop patina, he seeks to connect with people, to embed himself in the daily life of the island, bringing art into direct contact with its inhabitants.
Filippo Tincolini's works, in fact, live through the encounter between aesthetic care and the wonder in the face of something "other than us" that, coming towards us, questions and challenges us, offering a possible way out of life's labyrinth.
In this case, the tangled knot to unravel is the following: given the irresistible drive for exploration, how much should we heed the call of our earthly, natural essence? A lot, according to Tincolini, who has leaves and flowers emerging from the surface of his astronaut, revealing a vitality that transcends the boundaries of the technological fabric of the spacesuit.
In an era of unprecedented technological progress, can we truly consider ourselves separate from the natural world that gave us life? A rhetorical and provocative question that the sculptor wants to present to as many people as possible, to the point of dressing his work not in the classic marble that characterizes his production, but in resin and fluorescent paint. A pop staging that speaks with immediacy, while also referencing starlight, as well as the dynamism and energy of contemporary culture, reflecting how technology illuminates and sometimes overshadows our natural world.
But it is precisely here that the apparent paradox of the work ignites, as it is pervaded by the vegetative advance of nature, reclaiming its space with the growth of flowers, roots, branches, and plants that anchor the astronaut to the earth, reminding him that the journey, even on our planet, never ends.
This reflection continues with the works at the main headquarters of the Liquid Art System gallery in Capri, where until September 30th, other Spaceman pieces in various sizes and colors are on display, along with some marble works from the Flowered Soul and Ancient Gods series.