Jacopo Mazzonelli is a visual artist from Trento. After studying contemporary music, he is now interested in the creation of visual and medial installations, through which he investigates musical concepts such as silence or noise. The artist, like a translator, uses the lexical and spatial possibilities of his installations in order to put the accent on the small or large semantic disparities necessarily involved in and determined by translation. Lacking a unique visual term that identifies concepts such as silence, chromatic scale, time, or variation, Mazzonelli translates them into possible images whose meaning keeps evolving and developing over time.

Jacopo Mazzonelli uses various materials in his works: modified or dismembered musical instruments, more or less obsolete mechanical or electrical devices, such as old cathode ray tube televisions, typewriters, clocks and metronomes, or the signs that identify them in our collective imagination.

Doors

My project is a sculpture that consists of an oversized door which includes two smaller ones, for a total of three Doors (as suggested by the title), which are simultaneously disconnected and interconnected among each other. Doors have always had magical and symbolical values in different cultures around the world. Doors express the concept of a threshold which is not only a separating element of physical space, but also an element of transition from one state to another: a theme already investigated in my previous works. The choice of the number three is also not coincidental. As a matter of fact, three is the number of notes necessary to create a chord, combined according to precise acoustic rules. Three are the stages of the alchemical process, not only meant as transformation of rough metal into gold, but rather in mysterious and spiritual terms. This specific conceptual core lies at the centre of my work and it is stressed, in its metaphorical dimension, by the very location of the installation: along the centuries-old walls of San Vito, next to one of the town’s ancient doors.

Jacopo Mazzonelli