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Grazia Toderi
05.29.98 - 06.14.98
Exhibition — Espace Clément Marlo
Grazia Toderi, Zuppa dell' eternità e luce improvvisa (Potage éternel et clarté soudaine), 1994
Vidéo 30mn
coll. FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon
Born in 1963 in Padua (Italy), he lives in Cologne (Italy).
The action of the video Eternal soup and sudden clarity (1995), whose title comes from Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, is a ridiculous struggle, but also a borderline experience. The action of opening an umbrella under water becomes a metaphor for the testing of the body, a risk of loss against which the artist must call on all his inner resources, in a fight for survival.