{"id":8561,"date":"2002-09-28T11:58:10","date_gmt":"2002-09-28T11:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.locwsinternational.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=8561"},"modified":"2022-02-03T10:04:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T10:04:07","slug":"davide-bertocchi","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?portfolio=davide-bertocchi","title":{"rendered":"Davide Bertocchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Are You Ready? (Once Upon a Time In the West)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Swansea Beach \/ The Maritime &amp; Industrial Museum<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of the history of Swansea, of industrial revolution, coal mines and the beginning of a modern era in the Western world, triggered a memory of Davide Bertocchi\u2019s that has become the catalyst for a surreal performance on Swansea Beach. Bertocchi sees the beach, a great natural arena, as a psychological platform to combine a diverse collection of elements to recreate a \u2018metaphysical landscape\u2019, much like the elements in the surrealist works of the painter Giorgio De Chirico.<\/p>\n<p>He has fused a childhood memory of the 1970\u2019s \u2018Spaghetti Western\u2019: &#8216;Once Upon a Time in the West&#8217; with elements of history such as the transmission of the world&#8217;s first message by radio which was sent from Wales by Guglielmo Marconi in 1897. Prophetically the radio message was: &#8216;Are you ready?&#8217; and it is the members of Swansea Metal Detectors Club (metaphors of researchers) who reveal the enigma.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bertocchi\/bertocchi1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bertocchi\/bertocchi2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bertocchi\/bertocchi4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bertocchi\/bertocchi3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bertocchi\/bertocchi5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bertocchi\/bertocchi6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are You Ready? (Once Upon a Time In the West)<br \/>\nSwansea Beach \/ The Maritime &#038; Industrial Museum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13079,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[412],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8561","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13080,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8561\/revisions\/13080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_category&post=8561"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_tag&post=8561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}