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Jacopo mazzetti

basel social club 2025

Jacopo Mazzetti
Bambini, 2012/2025
[Children]
Laser Etched Opal-White Crystal
60×40×2 cm

The Children series is a collection of crystals featured in the artist's first solo exhibition in 2012. Each laser-etched drawing is originally made either on impulse or during meditation, forming circuits that resonate at specific frequencies. At its core, the Children series explores themes of healing, resilience, and spiritual transformation.

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Jacopo Mazzetti
Assorbimento dimensionale, 2025
[Dimensional absorption]
68×38,4×2,5cm
Pigments and oil on silicium

euro 3.500 + vat

This series of works addresses the transcendence of the fear of death, conceptualized as a mere "dimensional absorption" of being. The artist suggests that death is not an end, but rather a transition beyond the tangible limits of existence. The pigments and oils evoke crystallizations of matter, hinting at a holographic portal that transcends two-dimensionality. Consequently, the artwork serves as a philosophical and multi-dimensional bridge, inviting viewers to perceive the fear of endings not as a limitation, but as an opportunity for transformation and continuity.

Jacopo Mazzetti
Tempesta solare, 2025
[Solar storm]
Marble, Gold, Nails
19,5×16×2,5cm

euro 5.700 + vat

Over the weekend of 10–12 may 2024, earth was struck by the largest solar storm in more than a decade. while many enjoyed colourful auroras lighting up earth’s protective atmosphere, spacecrafts had to endure incredibly strong solar winds and electromagnetic radiation.

Created during this very weekend, this series of sculptures / amulets refers to the apocalypse as a solar storm capable of destroying satellites in orbit and de-magnetizing all technology, potentially annihilating the activity produced by a strong artificial intelligence (AGI). “Apocalypse” has come to be used popularly as a synonym for catastrophe, but the greek word apokálypsis - from which it is derived - means revelation.

Suspended under rays of light piercing the darkness, these ceremonial objects made of marble and gold recall magnets for solar storms. The alchemical aspect of this work series is rooted in egyptian funerary rituals and infused with renaissance lyricism, invoking the beginning of a new era of humanism and deep ecology.

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Jacopo Mazzetti
Descendant (Tulku), 2025
Soil, Ashes, Crystals, Led, Brass
Sculpture: 25×20×15cm
Background panel: 124x150cm

euro 7.500 + vat

Like an epiphany, Descendant (2012–ongoing) is an aerial sculpture with no mass, suspended in the darkness. The threadlike structure is composed of concretions of residual materials such as ash, and other natural materials like vegetal resins and crystals, tracing out a slender design in space. Installed on the structure–which in its winding, symmetrical form retains a biomorphic imprint–there is a system of programmed holographic LEDs projected onto a fabric of highly reflective glass microspheres, mapping out a constellation within the exhibition space. The Descendants are holo-dimensional beings sublimated into pure energy. This series of sculptures form the long-term environmental installation entitled Family Reunion reflecting on energy fields, intergenerational exchange and the circularity of time. The trilogy, The Living (2011–ongoing), The Ancestors (2017–ongoing), The Descendants (2012-ongoing), encapsulates a space in which those who have died, those who are alive, and those who are yet to be born can meet in a continuous form of time.

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