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米兰大教堂这几个世纪在经历战争空隙，酸雨侵蚀等生存考验后，如今，迎来了蓝色蜗牛的攻击。他们在2012年10月8日到10月13日出现在米兰大教堂的屋顶，这个艺术盛会有个名字叫做再忧思。其艺术包含多重含义：所有蜗牛都是再生塑料制成。Cracking Art Group的作品通常出现在博物馆，超市，高速路等场所，这次是首次出现在教堂。当这些蜗牛在艺术展结束后，所有的销售收入都将用于米兰大教堂的屋顶修缮，为整个城市作出贡献。

这些120厘米长，55厘米宽，高87厘米，从13公斤的大家伙们攀爬在教堂屋顶的各个角落，以神圣而悠久的讲堂作为背景，俯瞰着繁华的城市。

Cracking Art Group这个艺术团体的名字，源自将有机物质转化为合成物质，令分子裂化，分解的一个化学过程—-Cracking（裂解）。其于1983年始创于意大利，有六位来自世界各地，才华洋溢的艺术家，包括Alex Angi , Kicco , Marco Veromese , RenzoNucara , Carlo Rizzeti , William Sweetlove, 由欧洲走到美洲，展示他们创作的装置艺术品，如超巨型的彩色动物雕塑，而每次都会围绕着一个特定的科学，环境或者社会命题。他们的作品看似充满乐观色彩，其实在谴责社会上的各种变质现状；全因他们认为艺术肩负着重大的社会责任，希望透过创作，记录下当代社会所发生的种种，拯救或展示我们眼前的一切事实。

Cracking Art Group 简单而乐观的艺术表达手法，被视为在欧洲蔚然成风的新写实主义流派，他们同时也从普普艺术，达达主义及贫民艺术等等汲取丰富的创作灵感，每次装置展览结束后，作品都会被拆除，继而循环再用，这种创作技巧贯彻他们一直以来的信念。而通过在城市的公共空间展示巨型雕塑，Cracking Art Group希望能引导大家以全新角度，重新审视人们已经习以为常的公共空间，不论展览移师何地，唯一不变的，就是艺术家在作品中所呈现的，无法摧毁的乐观色彩。

Oh mia bella Madonnina.

Over the centuries, Milan’s Cathedral has had to survive all sorts of perils: air raids during the war, the incipient collapse of its columns, acid rain and so forth, but today, it’s an attack by giant blue snails. In actual fact, the snails are benefcial. The ffty gastropods will be on the Ca- thedral roof for just a week, from 8 to 13 October 2012. It is a contemporary art event, titled REgen- eration. The name has a multiple signifcance: the sculp- tures are made of regenerated plastic, certifed by a label on each snail that says “Plastic Second plastic for its works. Catalytic cracking is part of the process by which plastics are manufactured from hydrocarbon. Crack- ing Art have often placed their colour- ful plastic animals in various locations including museums, supermarkets and motorways, but this is the frst time that this sort of contem- porary art event has been staged in the Cathedral – in this case, on the rooftop. REgeneration also refers to the fact that the project, which will conclude with the sale of the snails, will help provide funding for the restoration of the main spire, bringing the people of the city into clos- er contact with the building and increas- ing public awareness of the importance of preserving this amazing piece of ar- chitecture.

The main spire is particularly symbol- ic, with its statue of Mary right at the top, in gilded bronze, cel- ebrated in a folk song ‘Oh mia bella Madun- ina,’ in the city’s dia- lect. (If you can sing it you’re pretty much born and bred Mila- nese, and you know all about the other Mi- lan specialities such as cotoletta alla Mila- nese, busecca, rostin negàa and ‘il happy hour.’ The song’s frst Life.” Each is 120 cm long, 55 cm wide and 87 cm in height, and weighs 13 kg. If you had something as large in your gar- den it would wreak havoc amongst your cabbages… They are blue, a colour that has long had a reli- gious signifcance, used in sacred art for the veil of Mary, Jesus’ gown, and in general to highlight the most sacred per- sonalities in a com- position.

They are made by the Crack- ing Art group, which habitually utilizes presently encased in scaffolding. The project was organ- ized in cooperation with Veneranda Fab- brica del Duomo, the company founded by Gian Galeazzo Vis- conti, Duke of Milan, in 1387 to fnance the construction of the Cathedral – perhaps the oldest company in Europe – and now concerned principally with its maintenance. In recent years, vari- ous events have been organized in and on the Cathedral in or- der to raise fnance, but also as a way of lines translate ap- proximately as: “Oh my beautiful little Ma- donna, shining from afar, you are made of gold and you are so small, you dominate Milan, life is bustling at your feet and the city never stops…’)

To return to the gas- tropods, Cracking Art Group has also made a limited edi- tion of one hundred snail sculptures on a smaller scale, 55 cm long, each weighing 3 kg. These will be sold for a minimum of €1,000 each by the Art Gallery Glauco Cavaciuti (www.glauco- cavaciuti.com), with net proceeds helping to pay for the resto- ration work on the spire presently under way. On the opening evening, 8 October, a fundraising dinner will be held, organ- ized by chef Gual- tiero Marchesi. Yet more copies of the snails will be on sale here, and art critic Philippe Daverio will guide the guests to some less familiar artistic details of the Cathedral.

To see the snails, you just have to visit the Cathedral rooftops from 8 to 13 October. The visit is possible any day from 9 a.m to 9.30 p.m., with the last ascent beginning at 8.45 p.m. The cost is €12 by lift, €7 if you decide you can take the stairs. It’s a narrow spiral stair- case, but it rewards you with spectacular views of this wonderful Gothic architec- ture and the sculpt- ed decoration on all sides. The swirling leaves on the capi- tals and balustrades run no risk of being consumed by the snails… For further information and tick- ets for Duomo visits, go to the Duomo Info Point in Piazza del Duomo opposite the Arcivescovado, tel.02 7202 3375.

Henry Neuteboom

Photo © Paolo Demaldè

Photo © Paolo Demaldè

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