Paolo Bottarelli The Chesscube Project

Paolo Bottarelli's 'ChessCube Project' will realize 64 unique units, as 3D projections of a chess-square, in successive pairs – in black and  white. Bottarelli refers to these 64 units as ‘mind rooms’ or monads. In the white cubes, the mental states are represented with positive properties; in the black cubes, with negative ones. Each cube will be archived with three different media: photography, film and paint and once the cube is closed, the photograph, the video and the painting will display the interior of the cube. All the installations in the cubes will be geometrically organized and mathematically calculated. The ChessCube project is a game played by the artist against himself, a challenge between his two cerebral hemispheres, between the drive towards the irrational and the inclination to the rational.