We’re happy to share new works by Cascione & Lusciov, the artist duo from Milan that creates incredible works of three-dimensional art. See more of their beautiful work at cascionelusciov.com
This series below is inspired by star clusters, first observed by the Italian scientist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. Star clusters became the focus of study for astronomers for the next two centuries as a way of understanding stellar evolution.
The first person to use a telescope to observe the night sky and record his observations was the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei in 1609. When he turned the telescope toward some of the nebulous patches that he saw, he discovered to his surprise, that they were not parts of a single star, but groupings of many stars clustered together.
“The galaxy is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.”
With this sculpture series entitled 'Star Cluster' Milanese artistic duo, Cascione and Lusciov tried to recreate a group of celestial objects with a nebulous appearance similar to comets, which are loosely bound by mutual gravitational attraction. This moving group of star sculptures shares a common motion through space as well as a common origin in space and time.
During its lifetime a star changes shape and color. Cascione and Lusciov tdecided to represent these life events through transformations and aerodynamics of shapes combined with highly reflective gold and silver double-sided mirror surfaces that transmit the color shift amplified by added sense of motion and dynamicity.
The series is composed of a total of four star sculptures identified as star A, star F, star G, and star K. The star A is the largest and most massive of the six bright stars at the heart of the cluster.
