works
Matteo Rattini

Iron Dome

CGI ( Computer Generated Images)
video 4’ 20”
2021

 During the world wars, hundreds of public monuments were wrapped in structures made of wood, metal sheets and bags of sand in order to protect them in the event of an air attack. These huge structures, hermetically hiding the content they were built to protect, became bellic monuments that reconfigured the public space that surrounded them as a battlefield.

With a war at the gates of Europe, one could wonder how the same monuments would be protected today. What kind of architectures would envelop them and hide them from our glance? What materials would we choose to erect these anti-monuments? But also, will the visual space occupied by these structures be destined for advertisements?

For the first iteration of the work, an anti-aircraft protection was developed to protect the Equestrian Statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni, located in Campo S. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. The structure resembles the protection built in 1917 with wood and sandbags but it’s re-proposed through scaffolding and fragments of advertising billboards found in the city.

Iron Dome 2022 - installation view
Iron Dome - 2022 - Still frames 
Iron Dome - 2022 - Still frames 

Iron Dome - 2022 - Still frames 

Iron Dome - 2022 - Still frames 

Iron Dome - 2022 - Still frames 
Iron Dome 2022 - installation view
Iron Dome - 2022 - Still frames 
Iron Dome - 2022 - Still frames 
Iron Dome - 2022 - Still frames 
Iron Dome - 2022 - Still frames 

Iron Dome - 2022 - Still frames