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SCALES/3

Video, audio, sculptures, photographs, with one constant fixation: the subject of the body in movement, the speed (Saturn in Gemini) in relation to the endless landscape of his native land. His unusual “Placet and highway”, an unlikely highway barrier made of bottles, object, cans in the infinite desert. Amidst skateboards, …

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VANITA’ IL TUO NOME E’ UOMO/2

Si passa a Petrarca che per conquistare Laura si acconcia i capelli con i ferri e usa scarpe dolorosissime dalla punta chilometrica. Nel Rinascimento Carlo V che nel ritratto di Tiziano porta la conchiglia e la braghetta corta.   Enrico VIII era pazzo per le gemme, nel ritratto di Holbein …

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VANITY, YOUR NAME IS MAN /2

  Moving on to Petrarch who, in order to win the affection of Laura, curled his hair with instruments and used painful, kilometric-pointed shoes. During the Renaissance Carlo V who in Titian’s portrait wears a jockstrap and shorts.   Henry VIII was crazy about jewels – you can count 114 …

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