WHY A FABLE?
Solo show Umberto di Marino Gallery
Through the Fable the artist draws his escape route from the mirror loop of Derridean memory in which otherness is relegated to mere presence. A playful little lantern to chase away humanity's indomitable tendency to forget.
A crucial period for Italian history and its cultural legacy, resulting in a circle of attributions of responsibility between young and old generations.
Plausible stories of the typical social education of those years, of working and good-natured fathers and industrious housewife mothers, of prejudices and discrimination, of accelerationist dogmas - those who know how to do things, those who don't know how to do things - study, of money as opposed to culture, from the north to the south, cultural mechanisms that have led to socio-political polarizations based on the greater or lesser availability of encyclopedic knowledge or money.