Francesco Simeti’s Art Projected onto the New York Italian Consulate Exterior
Francesco Simeti, born in Sicily, is an artist mostly known for great scale installations made on site through projectors. His work presents scenes of visual collages composed by photographs extracted from newspapers and magazines in order raise awareness of the tension between the natural and the artificial world. His topic of exploration includes the harming role of humans in relationship to non-human aspects in order to spread the word about the misuse of unnatural resources in the planet.
This time, on November 17th, Simeti had the chance to present his last creation “Unrelenting” in the exterior walls of the Italian Consulate in New York City, visible on the southwest corner of 69thstreet and Park Avenue. Over the course of a couple of months, Francesco designed a sequence of animated images expressing and evoking how nature regrew as humans stayed indoors during the pandemic, as the composition’s title suggests. The show consisted on greenery and vegetation blooming from the edges towards the center, reminding the viewers the power of wildlife on the absence of mortals.
The artwork was displayed on the outer space for the audience to experience a cultural event while still following COVID-19 protocol. The event was created by the NYC’s Mayor’s Office for International Affairs, the General Consulate of Italy in New York and Magazzino Italian Art.
‘Homemade’ was the initiative that Magazzino Italian Art’s digital magazine offered, inviting eight Italian New York-based artists to share works of art made from home during quarantine times.
The complete artwork is displayed at www.magazzino.art/blog/francesco-simeti
Alex Heymert Siles.
