Vittorio Corsini

43° 22’ 42” N 10°49’ 24” E 848 m, 2020
Audio, 5’00” (to be listened to on headphones only)
© Vittorio Corsini

Vittorio Corsini’s research has always concentrated on the topic of living as a mental archetype and as a place where the individual defines and realizes him/herself. Through sculptures and installations, he makes a sort of visual inventory of the elements of domestic living, raising the home to a constant icon in his work.
For the Digital for Mauro Staccioli project, he went to La Boldria, in front of the sculpture of the same name that Staccioli made in 2009, situated along the stretch of the SR68 linking Volterra to the village of Saline. Corsini chose to hide the essential element of Staccioli’s work, namely visual perception, to leave room for the sense of hearing alone. The result is 43° 22’ 42” N 10°49’ 24” E 848 m, an audio work of the sound of that place (whose coordinates make up the title) in the specific moment of his recording. The relationship between the individual, work and landscape prompted by La Boldria is still there, unchanged, but Corsini makes it invisible and changes round the roles: perception is no longer the prerogative of the observer, but of the sculpture, as it seems to listen to what is around it, observer included.

“The work will take the title of the position of one of Staccioli’s sculptures, located on the road that leads from Saline di Volterra to Volterra. It’ll consist of the recording, using a binaural microphone, of the sounds that happen around the work, as if the work could hear them. The title will also include the date and time of the recording. The file should be listened to on headphones only.” (Vittorio Corsini)

Vittorio Corsini was born in Cecina (Livorno) in 1956. He lives and works in Milan.
He has held solo exhibitions at, among others: Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena; Salone Villa Romana, Florence; Museo Oratorio di Santa Maria della Vita, Bologna; MACRO, Rome; Galleria Civica di Modena, Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena; Fortezza Nuova, Livorno; Kulturzentrum, Graz; and LaGalleria and La Corte Vecchia, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua.
He has taken part in group exhibitions, among others, at: Galleria L’Attico, Rome; Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato; XIIa Quadriennale Nazionale d’Arte, Rome; Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia; Fri-Art Centre d’Art Contemporain, Fribourg; Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan; Art Center, Seoul; Mart, Rovereto; Palazzo della Permanente, Milan and Officina Fondaco, Brussels.
He has also presented his works-events at: Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena; Villa Romana, Florence and Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato.
He has created public art projects hosted, among others, in Luicciana; in Milan; at the hospital of Campostaggia (Poggibonsi); in Turin; at the Walls of Dionysus in Syracuse; at the entrance to the Centro Polivalente in Peccioli and at the Castello dell’imperatore in Prato.
Website: www.vittoriocorsini.com

in dialogue with Mauro Staccioli, La Boldria, Volterra 2009

Photo by S. Borghesi