VIOLIN

MATTEO BOATO – 2014

Matteo Boato, through the creation of a violin bridge reproduced in large dimensions and made of oukumè wood, proposes the idea of ​​a musical instrument as an element built by man and brought back to a natural context. It is an intervention that places itself in a physical but also sonic relationship with the surrounding environment.

Four steel strings pulled on the two sides of the bridge make the object playable, which, positioned in the only point of the path where it is possible to hear the sound of the stream flowing nearby, makes water its privileged interlocutor. The bridge, in addition to allowing the strings to be pulled, carries the sound waves downwards. In a conventional bowed instrument this means allowing the sound to be amplified. In the artist’s work the sound spreads, in a way that is almost imperceptible to the ear, into the ground, transforming the entire forest into a sounding board.