Meteorite 19189
In 1991 the German astronomer Dr. Freimut Boerngen discovered Asteroid 19189 in the main belt of the solar system. This asteroid was named after Antonio Stradivarius. Asked to create a piece for the exhibition ‘8 Variations for Stradivarius’ at the Civic Museum of Cremona, I imagined that a fragment of this asteroid would travel through space and land into the birth city of the eminent luthier. A metal meteorite crammed with violins and shimmering with stardust falls onto our planet to celebrate the genius of Antonio Stradivarius whose instruments are still the subject of study and research after hundreds of years.
Surfaces of mirrored steel with the insertion of ceramic craters enamelled with platinum in the third firing.