Beams and Telescopic Handlers
From a static point of view, in the structural element 'beam', constraint points are strategic.
In the case of Cavenago's beams, two wheels are mounted at the ends of the artefact, releasing the element from staticity.
The beams adapt to the space that hosts them by connecting their extreme points, most often transversally, as in the installation in one of the rooms on the piano nobile of Palazzo Moroni, an ancient historical residence in the heart of Bergamo's Upper City, where among the precious furnishings and paintings of the collection, two opposite points in the room were connected by the work.
Unlike the beams, which have fixed dimensions designed for the exhibition space, the 'telescopics', like mechanical devices, are composed of elements that slide into each other: a system with variable dimensions.
The result is a device that adapts from time to time to the space that contains it; the same work with its versatility can therefore be installed in different spaces simply by adjusting its length.
Vittoria Coen, Art and Frame, 1990; Palazzo Moroni, Bergamo (cat.)
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