Metamorfosi di Una Barca

by on June 4, 2014
Museo del Castello (Castle Museum), Rocca Sforzesca (Castle Tower), Bagnara di Romagna, Italy

Museo del Castello (Castle Museum), Rocca Sforzesca (Castle Tower), Bagnara di Romagna, Italy

A. M. HOCH; Metamorfosi di una barca: first level of installation (circular basement floor) in castle tower: central room with painted mirrors suspended with wires and pulleys, with three alcoves with painted mirrors; approximately 13.78 ft (height) x 21.5 ft (diameter); 2011

A. M. HOCH; Metamorfosi di una barca: first level of installation (circular basement floor) in castle tower: central room with painted mirrors suspended with wires and pulleys, with three alcoves with painted mirrors; approximately 13.78 ft (height) x 21.5 ft (diameter); 2011

A. M. HOCH; Metamorfosi di una barca: first level of installation (circular basement floor) in castle tower: central room with painted mirrors suspended with wires and pulleys, with three alcoves with painted mirrors; approximately 13.78 ft (height) x 21.5 ft (diameter); 2011

A. M. HOCH; Metamorfosi di una barca: first level of installation (circular basement floor) in castle tower: central room with painted mirrors suspended with wires and pulleys, with three alcoves with painted mirrors; approximately 13.78 ft (height) x 21.5 ft (diameter); 2011

A. M. HOCH, DETAIL

A. M. HOCH, DETAIL

A. M. HOCH, Detail of alcove #2: Young Girl in a Triptych mirror, first level approximately 48 x 36 inches, 2011

A. M. HOCH, Detail of alcove #2: Young Girl in a Triptych mirror, first level approximately 48 x 36 inches, 2011

A. M. HOCH, Detail of alcove #1: Young Girl on a Ladder, painted mirror on ladder, approximately 75 x 15.75 inches, 2011

A. M. HOCH, Detail of alcove #1: Young Girl on a Ladder, painted mirror on ladder, approximately 75 x 15.75 inches, 2011

A. M. HOCH, Detail of alcove #3: Rocker Girl, painted mirror, approximately 53 x 13.75 inches, 2011

A. M. HOCH, Detail of alcove #3: Rocker Girl, painted mirror, approximately 53 x 13.75 inches, 2011

Rocca Sforzesca (Castle Tower), winding staircase

Rocca Sforzesca (Castle Tower), winding staircase

A. M. HOCH; second level of castle tower: Cocoon Boat; mixed media including painted mirror, cardboard, branches, metal, and wires; 14.4ft (height) x 21.2 ft (diameter); 2008/2011

A. M. HOCH; second level of castle tower: Cocoon Boat; mixed media including painted mirror, cardboard, branches, metal, and wires; 14.4ft (height) x 21.2 ft (diameter); 2008/2011

Detail shot of painted mirror imbedded in Cocoon Boat

Detail shot of painted mirror imbedded in Cocoon Boat

Rocca Sforzesca (Castle Tower), winding staircase

Rocca Sforzesca (Castle Tower), winding staircase

A. M. HOCH, third level of castle tower: Metamorphosis with Umbrella; mixed media including umbrella, resin, metal, and oil paint; approximately 73.6 x 23.6 inches; 2010/2011

A. M. HOCH, third level of castle tower: Metamorphosis with Umbrella; mixed media including umbrella, resin, metal, and oil paint; approximately 73.6 x 23.6 inches; 2010/2011

A. M. HOCH; fourth level of castle tower: Boat Souls; sculpture/painting with oil on canvas and ropes; approximately 54 x 83 inches; 2008/2011

A. M. HOCH; fourth level of castle tower: Boat Souls; sculpture/painting with oil on canvas and ropes; approximately 54 x 83 inches; 2008/2011

Detail of Boat Souls

Detail of Boat Souls

A. M. HOCH, fourth level of castle tower: Gone; mixed media including cloth, resin, oil paint, suitcase, copper, and wire; 98.5 (h) inches x 39.5 (w) x 36 inches (d) inches 2010/11

A. M. HOCH, fourth level of castle tower: Gone; mixed media including cloth, resin, oil paint, suitcase, copper, and wire; 98.5 (h) inches x 39.5 (w) x 36 inches (d) inches 2010/11


ABOUT THIS PROJECT

In 2009, having completed the text for Diary of a Young Boat, I began exploring the visual components of this piece, using discarded household objects such as mirrors, ladders, umbrellas, ropes and string in floating, multimedia pieces that incorporated the surrounding space. Ultimately, these suspended sculpture/paintings led to the Metamorfosi di una barca (2011), a site-specific installation of sculpture/paintings in the Museo di Castello, an ancient castle tower museum in Bagnara di Romagna, Italy. The tower’s four circular floors and winding staircase provided an unexpectedly apt embodiment of the pubescent girl’s metamorphosis. In Metamorfosi di una barca, using painted mirrors, ropes, pulleys, wires, pebbles and everyday objects, the viewer is led through the 14th-century castle tower in a spatial narrative (without sound). The imposing tower brought an unimagined dimension to the pieces I had been working on in my studio: a kinetic, physical involvement develops with the visual narrative of the metamorphosis of the Young Boat as the viewer arduously climbs from the bottom darkest level up to the airy top floor of the tower.

An Interview with A.M. Hoch, by Sarah Kornfeld for Pulse on LinkedIn: “On her installation “Portrait of a Young Boat” (“Metamorfosi di una barca”).”

This video documentation of A. M. Hoch’s site-specific installation Metamorfosi di una barca (2011) in an ancient castle tower (Museo di Castello) in Bagnara di Romagna, Italy, was produced, directed and edited by Roberto Mioli.

Special thanks to: Lisa Emiliani, Riccardo Francone, Lisa Gelhaus, Antonello Iannaccone, Sarah Kornfeld, and Claudio Tolu.

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