The moon seen from up there

Brajo Fuso
papier-mâché, plastic tubing
1969

Preparatory missions for the first moon landing began in 1959. In 1966 the first unmanned mission touched down softly and finally, on the 20th July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin disembarked from Apollo11 and set foot on the moon. 
The first images of the lunar surface broadcast by the media inspired Brajo to embark on a series of artworks featuring our terrestrial satellite, celestial bodies and space technology.
In his work La luna vista da lassù (The moon seen from up there) Brajo appears to put to rest the “spell” that had always triggered human fantasies concerning the nocturnal astral body by means of a brutal depiction of its scabrous and desert-like surface using an agglomeration of papier-mâché made from newspapers and electrical tubing.