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Two screen video installation 2008 beta pal 4/3 RT: 17' The new works entirely produced in Iceland include videos, photographs and video installations. These works confirm the analytical research ability of the Italian video artists duo that in a direct and surgical way make a lucid autopsy of desire of contemporary man, using their pictorial and metaphysical language. The artists face the limits and the possibilities of human condition, describing how today desire is weakening the sense of existence, desire meant as neurosis of the contemporary, the only engine of all capitalistic western societies. The choice of Iceland, a distant fluctuating island at the extreme north west of Europe, meets two important concepts in the works of Masbedo, the beauty that emanates from the sense of mystery and the solitude and melancholy that result from these elements. This island, a mass of lava covered with glaciers, straddles the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and is splitting between the North American and Eurasian Plates, lacerating itself three centimetres every year. Becoming the metaphorical place of the fracture of the West. Iceland is a metaphysical and surrealistic set for an accurate analysis of the crisis of the values of contemporary society. Iceland conceptually represents a paradigmatic dimension of human beings and a perfect frame for Masbedo’s mental existentialist scenograph.
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