Nel momento (L'ordine familiare del tempo), 1974

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The lead sheet, place of transformation
"Nel momento is a sound of origin that summons a desire, a will to be present, a practice that unites mind and body where circumstance becomes a third force, it is to see oneself free of identification. The lead sheet that first I encountered becomes a place of transformation, the nature of this substance opens up through cutting and folding, entering a rhythm between full and empty, a rotation that becomes symmetry, the resulting image opens a universe of geometric reminders. ‘Art is an event of the spirit'."
(Remo Salvadori, unpublished handwritten text, 1990s)
The manifestation of a development of the past unfolding in the present
"Its becoming ignores the assumption of a pre-established formula and relies on the emotional and contextual situations where the work comes to light. In fact, it is a reflection on the relationships between stability and becoming that translates into a web of events, between full and empty, between relief and flat, to attest to the continuous dialectic between fixed and variable, between mobile and immobile, between certain and uncertain . . . . What matters is the 'flow,' the 'transit' where the return to the same but varied thing becomes the manifestation of a development of the past unfolding in the present."
(Germano Celant, A Ceremony from Moment to Moment, in Germano Celant, Remo Salvadori, [Milan: Electa, 2010])
The artist's studio on Via Pace, Milan, mid-1970s
Photo © Carlo Cantini

Nel momento (L'ordine familiare del tempo), 1974

lead
The lead sheet, place of transformation
"Nel momento is a sound of origin that summons a desire, a will to be present, a practice that unites mind and body where circumstance becomes a third force, it is to see oneself free of identification. The lead sheet that first I encountered becomes a place of transformation, the nature of this substance opens up through cutting and folding, entering a rhythm between full and empty, a rotation that becomes symmetry, the resulting image opens a universe of geometric reminders. ‘Art is an event of the spirit'."
(Remo Salvadori, unpublished handwritten text, 1990s)
The manifestation of a development of the past unfolding in the present
"Its becoming ignores the assumption of a pre-established formula and relies on the emotional and contextual situations where the work comes to light. In fact, it is a reflection on the relationships between stability and becoming that translates into a web of events, between full and empty, between relief and flat, to attest to the continuous dialectic between fixed and variable, between mobile and immobile, between certain and uncertain . . . . What matters is the 'flow,' the 'transit' where the return to the same but varied thing becomes the manifestation of a development of the past unfolding in the present."
(Germano Celant, A Ceremony from Moment to Moment, in Germano Celant, Remo Salvadori, [Milan: Electa, 2010])
The artist's studio on Via Pace, Milan, mid-1970s
Photo © Carlo Cantini