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THE LORDS OF NINE
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THE LORDS OF NINE
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“THE LORDS OF NINE”
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The Sacred Rebellion of Tomasso Silvestri Vision
THE HOUSE OF SILVESTRI ANNOUNCES THE WORLD PREMIERE OF “THE LORDS OF NINE” A VISIONARY NEW SCULPTURAL WORK BY TOMASSO SILVESTRI
Santa Fe, New Mexico — The House of Silvestri is profoundly honored to announce the world premiere of THE LORDS OF NINE, a deeply haunting and visionary new sculptural work by internationally acclaimed radical artist Tomasso Silvestri.
Tomasso Silvestri and the Archaeology of a Future Consciousness
There are works of art that represent the world, and there are rarer works that seem to propose an entirely different apparatus through which the world might be perceived. Tomasso Silvestri’s THE LORDS OF NINE belongs emphatically to the latter category.
Created in Santa Fe in 2026 as part of Silvestri’s evolving RaZ/AI — Radical AI Intelligence — language, THE LORDS OF NINE is simultaneously sculpture, relic, speculative machine and metaphysical proposition. Measuring only 12 × 15 × 4 inches, its physical intimacy is deceptive. Silvestri compresses an enormous conceptual territory into a remarkably concentrated object, producing something that appears at once excavated from an unknowable antiquity and transmitted backward from an equally unknowable future.
At first encounter, the work possesses something of the archaeological object. Its accumulation of figures, organic fragments, metallic interventions, jewels, botanical forms and ritualistic details suggests an artifact excavated from an unknown civilization.
Yet the civilization in question seems simultaneously ancient and futuristic.
This temporal instability is among the work’s most compelling intellectual qualities. Silvestri collapses categories that Western modernity habitually keeps separate: artifact and machine, relic and prototype, spiritual icon and technological system, organic matter and speculative intelligence.
The result might be described as an archaeology of the future.
Where archaeology normally reconstructs vanished civilizations through surviving fragments, Silvestri reverses the procedure. He manufactures the fragments first and allows us to imagine the civilization to which they might belong. THE LORDS OF NINE appears to carry a history, yet that history cannot be located. It resembles a relic whose religion has not yet been invented, or a ceremonial machine recovered from a civilization several centuries ahead of us.
The physical vocabulary through which Silvestri constructs this ambiguity is astonishingly heterogeneous. Spruce bark and branches coexist with burnt cholla wood, copper constructions, gold resin forms, flowers, violet glitter, silver rings, multicolored pins, acrylics, complex pigments and technologically fabricated blades.
In another artist’s hands, such material excess could become spectacle. Silvestri instead makes heterogeneity philosophical.
The branch becomes architecture. The blade becomes ornament. The jewel becomes organism.
The miniature figure becomes an inhabitant of some larger, invisible order.
Nature and technology cease to operate as opposites. A piece of burnt cholla beside a metallic or jeweled intervention does not simply present “nature beside technology”; Silvestri makes both appear like surviving components of the same unknown system.
This is profoundly contemporary. We inhabit a moment in which the boundary between biological and technological existence becomes increasingly unstable: algorithms participate in perception, machines generate images, human memory migrates into digital systems, and biological bodies are measured and extended through technology.
Silvestri neither celebrates nor condemns this condition. He asks a stranger and ultimately more compelling question:
What happens to the spiritual object after the technological revolution?
The designation RaZ/AI inevitably brings artificial intelligence into this territory, yet Silvestri’s idea of intelligence appears considerably broader than computation. Within THE LORDS OF NINE, intelligence seems distributed across matter itself. Wood carries memory; symbols acquire agency; objects appear to possess histories; individual forms communicate across the composition.
Intelligence becomes relationship—a network of materials, memories, energies and signs.
This allows Silvestri to move beyond the familiar opposition of human versus machine. His sculpture instead imagines biological, artificial, symbolic and perhaps even spiritual intelligence occupying the same field. The object begins to resemble a cognitive ecosystem.
One does not simply look at THE LORDS OF NINE.
One enters its logic.
There is an important art-historical lineage behind this expansion of the sculptural object. Marcel Duchamp radically altered the status of the object itself; Joseph Beuys invested materials with social and spiritual energy; Louise Bourgeois transformed sculpture into psychological architecture; Anselm Kiefer demonstrated the capacity of matter to carry historical and mythological memory.
Silvestri inherits something from this expanded field while pushing it toward distinctly different territory. His assemblage is not primarily an archaeology of consumer culture, nor solely psychological or historical. It is cosmological. Sculpture becomes a place in which competing conceptions of reality can coexist.
In this sense, THE LORDS OF NINE has as much conceptual affinity with the reliquary, altar and wunderkammer as it does with modern assemblage. Silvestri drags these ancient forms of object-making into the technological imagination of the twenty-first century.
And perhaps he recognizes something modernity occasionally attempted to forget: human beings have never made objects merely to look at them. We have made them to remember, mourn, worship, protect, explain death, communicate with invisible worlds and make the incomprehensible temporarily tangible.
Silvestri resurrects this archaic function of art without resorting to archaic aesthetics.
Even the title deepens this ambiguity. “Nine” carries associations of completion, celestial organization and passage across numerous philosophical and spiritual traditions, while the “Lords” can be encountered less as literal characters than as forces or concentrations of consciousness—custodians of an invisible architecture.
Silvestri wisely refuses to resolve these associations into a fixed doctrine. His symbolism is powerful precisely because it remains multidimensional. One element modifies another; organic matter collides with manufactured matter; ornament becomes anatomy and anatomy becomes architecture.
Meaning does not reside in a single symbol.
Meaning emerges from the system.
Perhaps the work’s most beautiful contradiction, however, is its scale. At only 12 × 15 × 4 inches, THE LORDS OF NINE is physically intimate yet conceptually monumental. The viewer must approach it closely, entering its density rather than surveying it from afar.
The miniature becomes a portal.
A miniature world implies another world beyond its boundaries. Like a shrine, reliquary, model or cosmological diagram, Silvestri’s sculpture compresses something seemingly immeasurable into a finite material territory. The closer one approaches it physically, the larger its imaginary universe seems to become.
This quality also makes THE LORDS OF NINE characteristic of an increasingly ambitious dimension within Silvestri’s practice. Across RaZ/AI, Morphic Art and his interconnected bodies of work, he is not simply developing a recognizable visual style. He is constructing a language—and, increasingly, a world.
Individual sculptures begin to feel like fragments recovered from a larger Silvestrian universe whose laws we do not yet fully understand.
That is a considerable artistic ambition. Silvestri permits himself subjects that contemporary art can sometimes approach with hesitation: consciousness, spirit, intelligence, mortality, technology, transformation and transcendence. Rather than illustrating these ideas, he builds objects in which they can collide.
THE LORDS OF NINE may therefore be most compellingly understood as a relic from a civilization yet to exist.
Is it sculpture, shrine, machine, reliquary or metaphysical diagram?
The categories begin to fail—and that failure is precisely where the work becomes fascinating.
Ancient matter meets technological imagination. The handmade encounters the posthuman. The relic becomes prototype. Silvestri gives us an object that seems somehow to remember both the distant past and an impossible future.
It arrives from neither.
Instead, THE LORDS OF NINE occupies that extraordinary territory between matter and idea, knowledge and mystery, technology and transcendence. It does not simply ask to be observed; it asks us to consider whether reality itself might be considerably larger, stranger and more mysterious than the structures through which we ordinarily perceive it.
THE LORDS OF NINE
THE LORDS OF NINE"
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ANTHROPOMORPHICS MODELING AND 3D MINI SCULPTURES, CUSTOM CURIO-COFFIIN, SPRUCE BARK AND BRANCHES, AIR BRUSH, BURNT CHOLLA WOOD, GOLD RESIN MINI-4D SCULPTURES, COPPER MINI CONSTRUCTION, BEJEWELED FLOWERS, VIOLET GLITTER, MULTI-COLORED PINS, SILVER RINGS, ACRYLICS, HIGH TECH BLADES MADE BY SILVESTRI CUSTOM FOR THE SCULPTURE, DECONSTRUCTION, SPECIAL MIXES OF GLAZES/PIGMENTS/INCLUSIONS, | RADICAL AI INTELLIGENCE SCULPTURE ON CUSTOM FRAME BY THE ARTIST | | |12 W X 15 H X 4 D INCHES | SANTA FE STUDIO | 2026 | PRICE UP ON REQUEST |
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