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Musco was paralyzed on his right side for the first years of his life. This injury, called Erb’s Palsy, is the tearing of neck, arm and shoulder nerves. With scheduled surgeries to fix the damage, Musco’s superstitious mother saw the disease as a bad omen and refrained from having any surgical work done on Musco and instead he spent the first 10 years of his life in therapy to strengthen his injured side of the body. The traumatic experience since birth is Musco’s main inspiration behind his art,

A body of work that is driven by the personal experience, a birth prolonged until the 11^th month due to a hormonal dysfunction. A difficult pregnancy that has left both deep marks in the unconscious memories and in his physical body here becomes a narrative of suspended images- reflections of silent and surreal visions.

 

Brought up in Naples, his time was spent at school or helping out in his father’s grocery store doing deliveries. With his school situated near water, Musco would muse out of the window at the happenings on the river as he witnessed an array of interesting sights, such as the high speed boat chases of police and smugglers with black-market contraband. These activities very significant to Musco and his work. He later went on to study at the Academia Di Belle Arti and took an apartment in a very dangerous and historic part of the city; his new dwelling was next to the Napoli Sotteranea, a subterranean second city. The mysticism, history and legends of this old city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius were an ongoing fascination for the young artist.

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A poor student/artist who worked part time jobs and couldn’t afford painting materials, Musco started experimenting with installations and mixed-media like fire, stones and the bodies of his fellow workers. An artist with such a rich and ‘troubled’ childhood created work that depicts all these times of his life and serves as rationale. With the human body is the main focus, he creates mosaics of nude bodies, woven and making it look like constructions that depict symbolic representation of eggs, nests amniotic fluid and other aspects of procreation. His work seems almost like great murals of naked bodies meshed together to form one symbolic meaning.

Words : Bianca Budricks

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The project, called Capsula Mundi, envisions cemeteries full of trees instead of tombstones. Capsula Mundi is the name of the coffin design. It shall be an egg shaped container made of starch and plastic. The coffin will be 100% biodegradable. Bodies will be placed in the fetal position and a seed, a seed chosen by the deceased in life, will be planted on top of the capsule.
 

 
The Capsula Mundi project seeks to return humans to the earth, to integrate them into a new, lively environment. The organisers write on their website “A cemetery will no longer be full of tombstones and will become a sacred forest”. The green movement converges with a new, more accepting, circular vision of death to create this novel Capsula Mundi project. A cemetery can be turned into a forest, leaving the living something to look at, to nourish and appreciate, to breathe in. Dead cement and manicured lawns don’t capture the beauty of living.
 
 
Poetree is another variant of planting trees to honour the dead. The urn is biodegradable and the tree, life, can grow where before there was only death.
 


 
Click HERE to check out a video and visit the official website HERE.
 
 
 
Source: Capsula Mundi
http://www.capsulamundi.it/progetto_eng.html
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