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The
sense of history and of "invasion" of the local and global
contemporaneity are constantly at play, especially in
a place such as Tuscany, where these polarities have an
incomparable background. The work by Kendell Geers is
the outcome of a reflection on these terms, and also on
that kind of superficial tourism often looking for symbols
which are seen and incorporated through the contact with
television, and school books.
In the majority of cases we want to recognise Ô without
really knowing Ô these symbols, watching them as quickly
as possible and then move on to others. A sort of fast
food where sensations and culture are rapidly swallowed.
The David by Michelangelo is taken as the symbol of this
state of things and from the production of millions of
small dimensions statues sold in souvenir shops, Geers
has gone back to the original dimensions, creating a "genuine"
fake place in the "wrong" location. Two are the statues
in polystyrene which the tourist will find in Volterra,
with the vaguely wrong proportions but with an aspect
really similar to that of the several of the reproductions
which have rendered the statue so famous. In this material,
also a symbol of contemporary fast food consumerism, is
made also the famous sculpture that Michelangelo realised
recycling it from a marble block left unfinished by Agostino
di Duccio.
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