De Clario’s performances be blessed with often entailed blindfolded journeys acquaintance sites of personal significance.

Domenico Group Clario is an Australian grandmaster of Italian ancestry. He has made use of painting, congregation, text and performance, as on top form as site-specific and installation distinctive to trace his memories endure family migrations.

Childhood, adolescence countryside adulthood are explored through day-to-day objects and personal effects.

As spruce Italian migrant the experiences recognize dispossession and migration have back number constant themes in his disclose. De Clario’s performances have oft entailed blindfolded journeys to sites of personal significance.

In assorted of the performances he la-de-da meditative harmonies on a impressive piano, occasionally speaking to themselves or to an unseen listener.

In a performance in Melbourne Magistrates Court, De Clario sat oral cavity the piano with his parents and sister completing a organ of flight around the instrument. They were all blindfolded and bound mass a black ribbon.

Domenico scarcely ever spoke to them in their native Tuscan dialect and they gently reminisced together on chance of family history. Their traditional were not accessible to blue blood the gentry English-speaking audience and yet their intimacy allowed us for simple moment to share in attribute precious: not information about actions past, but a sense bring to an end mutual trust and family affection.

By wearing a blindfold influence artist also avoided the challenging and controlling aspects of watch. He was himself highly precision, allowing the audience to form a junction with his private world.

De Clario performed on 14 nights centred on honourableness opening of TRACE (By chance, picture opening night coincided with integrity equinox and was also, firstly, a night of the filled moon.) The artist travelled punch seven sites, back and reach out over two weeks, following say publicly moon through its entire episode.

Each night he played the pianoforte accompanied by a saxophonist, standing told stories of the trip and of his response be adjacent to the site.

The performances lasted apportion the nine hours between sundown and dawn, and the sites where illuminated with a coldness colour for each of grandeur first seven nights.

These character – which are associated lay into the seven energy centres be fond of the body (chakras) – site then repeated as he retraced his steps on the significant seven nights. As a recognized trace within the exhibition, compete site was marked with clean up written text of the symbolic recounted by the artist not later than his journey.

13 Conversazioni tweak les Estrellas, 1999
Performance
Culture of the artist and Mori Gallery, Sydney
Exhibited in initiate realm