Ajna

Fondazione Morra Greco is proud to present Ajna, a solo show by Pierpaolo Salvi.
The exhibition features a sound installation consisting of twelve steel elements, a couple of Plexiglass loudspeakers and three smaller steel loudspeakers of different shapes. Pierpaolo Salvi develops his research exploring sound through shape, and also the shape that materializes the sound.

The title of the exhibition, Ajna, is a Sanskrit term indicating the sixth chakra. Its corresponding element is the inner sound, the type of sound to which it vibrates is the om and the gland located in the brain at the level of the eyes is the pineal gland, which probably produces the melatonin which in turn regulates oneiric activity and creative visualization (from the chemical point of view melatonin is similar to some plants known to cause hallucinogenic visions, while some psychotropic drugs such as LSD increase the melatonin synthesis).

Chakra means vortex or wheel and corresponds to each of the 7 energy centres of our body-mind system: matter-spirit, earth-heaven.
Ajna, the third eye, represents “perception”. With this chakra we transform the physical visual reality into conceptual inner images. This quality is the creative visualization, and keeping this image in your mind over time will increase the possibility that it becomes true.
The exhibition pathway involves perceptions connected to mind, vision, hearing and touch.

The steel sound installation consisting of two large subwoofers, two small subwoofers and four passive loudspeakers results from the observation of reality that Pierpaolo Salvi translated into a series of polyhedra where the number of elements and of plane surfaces is always six or a multiple of six.
The couple of plexiglass loudspeakers are the representation of the invisible yet physical vibration of the sound.
The three steel sound geometrical sculptures are different mental combinations of lines, curves and surfaces.

“Every art has its own language, i.e. those means which it alone possesses […] For this reason, the means belonging to different arts are externally quite different. Sound, colour, words! […] The final goal (knowledge) is reached through delicate vibrations of the human soul […] A distinctive complex of vibrations is the goal of a work[…]. Art is therefore indispensable and functional.”– Vassily Kandinsky, The Blue Rider

All images Courtesy Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli
© Danilo Donzelli