{"id":211,"date":"2002-09-28T04:01:15","date_gmt":"2002-09-28T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lawrencebrown.eu\/LOCWS\/?p=211&#038;language=en"},"modified":"2012-08-21T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T10:27:07","slug":"davide-bertocchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Davide Bertocchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Are You Ready? (Once Upon a Time In the West)<\/strong><br \/>\nSwansea Beach \/ The Maritime &#038; Industrial Museum<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bertocchi\/bertocchi1.jpg\" alt=\"bertocchi1\" title=\"bertocchi1\" width=\"510\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bertocchi\/bertocchi2.jpg\" alt=\"bertocchi2\" title=\"bertocchi2\" width=\"510\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bertocchi\/bertocchi4.jpg\" alt=\"bertocchi4\" title=\"bertocchi4\" width=\"510\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bertocchi\/bertocchi3.jpg\" alt=\"bertocchi3\" title=\"bertocchi3\" width=\"510\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bertocchi\/bertocchi5.jpg\" alt=\"bertocchi5\" title=\"bertocchi5\" width=\"510\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/bertocchi\/bertocchi6.jpg\" alt=\"bertocchi6\" title=\"bertocchi6\" width=\"510\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532\" \/><br \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\nHe 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.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are You Ready? 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