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Andrea Morucchio

Andrea's work explores the mystery and dynamism of the human creative impulse. He is interested in the potential for the creative act to facilitate a direct spiritual connection with nature and place. The projects he is working on whilst in Tasmania aim to create a situation where viewers are given the opportunity to reflect upon their relationship with the natural world.

Percer-Voir (from the French word for "perceive") plays on the literal translation: to pierce - to see. In this artwork glass 'points' project from a pond in the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. The metaphorical perforations made by the glass points are intended to stimulate an emotional and subjective perception, a greater understanding that allows us to see by piercing; lighting the depths of one's own soul.
The Eidetic Bush multimedia installation project which has been developed during Andrea's residency in Hobart, seeks to express a spiritual connection between contemporary artistic ideals with the motivating forces behind the creativity of early man. Whilst the final artwork is in the form of a video installation, the initial process involves the artist working on-site in an area of recently burnt bushland. With a small team of local artists and students, Andrea works with clay to transform the site of destruction into one which suggests the hope of regeneration.

Andrea will also exhibit a number of glass and iron sculptures at Despard Gallery, of Tasmania's most significant and successful private art galleries.These works from the Enlightenments, Blades, Wave, Hyperbolize and Javelins series were made between 2000 and 2002 and are the result of the artist aiming to produce sculptures which have a spiritual, dynamic energy. In these sculptures, the physical representation of iron penetrated by glass becomes an obstacle to rationality, a paradox, a koan that activates a succession of mental process that lead to levels of higher consciousness - hence the title given to this series.