by the AMVA4NewPhysics press office
This is the first of a series of posts that will publish the results of artistic work by high-school students of three schools in Venice, who participate in a contest and exposition connected to the initiative “Art and Science across Italy“, an initiative of the network CREATIONS, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme of the EU.
The AMVA4NewPhysics network is sponsoring and directing the artistic production in Venice, which has taken place at Liceo Stefanini, Liceo Foscarini, and Liceo Benedetti, involving over seventy 3rd and 4th year students. The production has ended this month, and following a pre-selection of the 12 best works, an exposition will take place during the week of July 5th-12th at the Palazzo del Casinò of the Lido of Venice, in conjunction with the international EPS conference in high-energy physics.
Finally, at 9PM on July 8th, at the Sala Perla of the Casino of Venice, the best artworks will be given prizes in the presence of the Director General of CERN, dr. Fabiola Gianotti. The prizes are offered by the AMVA4NewPhysics network.
Here I present the first work, titled “Sub-lime”. It is the work of Alice Deppieri and Carlotta Dal Zennaro. In a short chat I had with them when I visited their school today, they say:
“In this work we have tried to simplify the visual description of a particle collision, to reach the maximum possible audience. We have used recycled materials in our assembly.“
I believe the very careful construction and the choice of colours and materials makes this work very aesthetically pleasing. In the pictures below you can see the work and some details. I will update the post with a picture of the artists with their work as soon as they give me a consent (they are under 18 years old).
This work was selected to be exposed to the Casinò di Venezia at Lido during the EPS conference, July 5th to 12th, and it participates in the final selection of the best artworks by Venice high-school students.
I would like to encourage everybody who reads this post to please leave a comment in the thread, offering their own judgement of the composition. Thanks!
And here are the authors with their work:
AMVA4NewPhysics 
23 May 2017 at 15:17
I like it; nice use of colours and materials. Did the artists mention why they chose the name “Sub-lime”?
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23 May 2017 at 15:48
Well done, very nice and precise.
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24 May 2017 at 9:38
Hi we’re Alice and Carlotta (the artists).
The title Sub-lime comes from the fact that one day, after arriving to school, a classmate of mine asked me :”Alice it’s wonderful, what’s that?” And I replyed “Sublime”, and then we broke in laughter.
Then , thinking about it, I realized that, as we are talking about nuclear physics, this argument really “surpasses” limits, in this context the limit of imagination for everyone that isn’t part of this field of studies.
Our work embodies the meaning of Sub-lime, meaning something that frightens man, but at the same time fascinates him.
In fact at the begging we were intimidated from having to create something regarding particle collisions, but moved by our curiosity we became passionate about this argument and it became possible for us to realaize it.
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24 May 2017 at 9:42
Very nice work. Well done. Brave.
Can you please provide an easy way to attach it to the vertical structure we will have in Venice ?
Can you please prepare a short text to attach close to the artwork in order to let people understand it better ?
Pierluigi
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24 May 2017 at 14:08
Yes, sure we’ll provide everything that is necessary .
Would you kindly explain to us how the vertical structure’s is compose ?
Thank you so much.
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27 May 2017 at 12:27
Hi Carlotta, Alice,
I think Pierluigi (the member of the CREATIONS network who is organizing the whole “Arte e Scienza” thing in Italy) refers to just having something that you can use to hang the picture to a nail on the wall or attach a string to.
Cheers,
T.
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24 May 2017 at 9:54
Yes, sure we’ll provide everything that is necessary .
Would you kindly explain to us how the vertical structure’s is compose ?
Thank you so much.
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24 May 2017 at 10:16
I like this piece of art. First of al,l it is done with a great care and precision. Even though your art was constructed from straight strings, you could easily represent smooth curves. Good job.
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