Mock-up

Posted By Bomar Studio ~ 14th November 2011

Mock-up is the name of the installation presented by Marco Bolognesi at Invideo 2011, the international video and cinema show.
The installation is composed by the model of the spaceship Skeleton Arcadia, a big scale reproduction realised with 300 toys and the homage video Propaganda Republic that recalls the social science-fiction’s universe, using a cine-magazine of the thirteen’s. After Dark Star and the tribute to John Carpenter, Marco Bolognesi, revisits the Space Opera of Margheriti “The Battle of the Worlds”.

The eye of Bolognesi interlaces with the naïf images of Margheriti to create an installation in which you enter totally.
In the original film a planet guided by the “central mind” enters in collision course with the Earth to destroy it. The central mind continues ruthless his mission to conquer the Earth. The hero of Margheriti’s film is the eccentric scientist Benson, whose intervention allows to the humans to find the enormous central mind and rescue the Earth.

Bomar Universe’s amazons (the universe in which lives the art of Marco Bolognesi) interact with the protagonists of Margheriti’s film to create a perfect integration between the two worlds. Bolognesi gives a face and a body to the feared “stranger” that in the original film is never shoot. He rereads the story from the point of view of the invader and re-interpreting the final. The spaceship, with his kaleidoscopic shape, is an integrating part of the story and a scenographic element that allows you to participate to the scene.

Re-emerging from the imaginary of Bolognesi you have the impression that the forced propaganda of the video is only a “mock-lecture” of the actual politic communication. A resolute critic that Bolognesi has no fear to express.