Random Assembly

RANDOM ASSEMBLY MOSAIC - Puzzling Project

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The works entitled Random Assembly Mosaic represent the embryonic phase of the Puzzling project. In these works, photographic tiles are selected and assembled on the basis of color and geometric affinities. This is a first step in bringing order to the chaos of the thousands of messy tiles used in >> The Rape of Venice and serves as preparation for the >> Puzzling Classics series. Indeed, in the last one, the choice and placement of tiles aim to reinterpret a pictorial work while maintaining a visual link to the original painting.

In Random Assembly Mosaic, starting from the random and chaotic arrangement of photographic tiles (obtained by deconstructing the original design of the mosaic mantle of St. Mark's Basilica), a series of two-dimensional and square works emerge. Each work consists of 100 photographic tiles, ideally representing parts of the floor used for The Rape of Venice. These tiles are arranged vertically, in a grid of ten on each side.

In these works, the tiles are arranged randomly, but they come from the same area of the original mosaic. As a result, they share similar stylistic and color traits. Although the original design has been reshuffled in an iconoclastic way, the photographic tiles, which are related to each other, still manage to create a rhythm and harmony despite their seemingly random arrangement.Over time, this type of work has influenced another installation project, >> Re-Flooring.

In Re-Flooring, Morucchio creates video clips composed of 24 images that gradually recompose a part of the original pavement. This recomposition process starts from a situation where the images have completely disappeared, accompanied by a rhythmic sound of water splashing recorded in the lagoon, and then slowly rebuilds the original figure of the pavement.