Marco Gobbi

Builde

(2009)
Marco Gobbi's installation of a cave made by cardboards and scotch.

Bulide is a cave in cardboard who lives in space in which it is built, it is a work that incorporates, given the available surface bulide the employing entirely.
Inside at the cave a machine for the cooling made to hand, realized with material recycling; this machine operate only with loading a container with colored icicles.
The term Bulide derives from Eubulide, greek philosopher who is generally attributed to the paradox of the liar.
The work plays on the visual impact, at the first appearance I want the viewer is led to believe to actually be in front of a real cave, who doubts the reality.
The interesting thing is that bulide, it is actually more like the cast in negative of an real cave, for example, there isn’t an echo because it is absorbed by the cardboard and can’t be made the fire otherwise the cardboard will be burned.