In 2010 Roberto Paci Dalò created the site-specific installation Sun Tzu for the exhibition Lo spazio del Sacro, a collective exhibition directed and curated by Marco Pierini for the Galleria Civica in Modena.
The installation Sun Tzu consists of a large sculpture in wood and metal (almost seven meters) in the shape of a “hunting bow” and a sound device that spreads the acoustic vibrations in the surrounding space. The arch stands suspended in the dome of the Palazzina dei Giardini of the Galleria Civica in Modena.
When you imagine the word “sacred” you almost always do so in relation to the world of religion. But this is not what happens in this exhibition, which insists more on the word “space”, the space of the work of art. Sun Tzu, the installation by Roberto Paci Dalò, as its name suggests, is inspired by the literary work of Sun Tzu L’arte della guerra, a treatise on military strategy written in China between the fourth and fifth centuries AD. In this installation the bow is a sound box and the arrow is the sound. The bow spreads the vibration produced by the continuous oscillation of the string.
Here Lo Spazio del sacro is a space of sound.
