Light And Shades Artwork By Fabrizio Corneli

A monumental wall work as well as an extraordinary technical exploit, Grande Volante represents the silhouette a flying man that the shades ten metal lamellae which have been cut ad hoc project on the wall. The image is outlined with both artificial light and the light the sun, as a guardian angle watching over the area and disappearing at the first hours the day when artificial light goes out. And then as the sun rises, the shades take shape again, and the image – in June and July, about half-past eleven, it is perfectly clear – gradually fades till it vanishes. One day, the Grande Volante will become the sundial marking the hours and seasons this quiet area Bruxelles. This is one most creative works by Fabrizio Corneli.
Fabrizio Corneli (Italy, 1958) has been always fascinated by the themes light and shade, the two elements which he made his favourite research media. A heir the Tuscan scientific and artistic tradition having in Filippo Brunelleschi, Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei some its best-known exponents, Corneli combines art and science, technology and aesthetics, abstract line reasoning and image. Grande Volante confirms once again the great talent Fabrizio Corneli to awake the magic and mystery through his plays lights and shades.
A worldwide famous artist, Fabrizio Corneli realised many temporary and permanent installations, including the big light work for the Italian pavilion at the 2005 Universal Exposition in Aichi, Japan. Many public and private collections the whole world host his masterpieces. Grande Volante is his first work for a public space in Belgium. The Commune Anderlecht was ready to seize the opportunity: give praise where praise is due!