Category Archives: ENGLISH TEXTS

Der Reichstagssturm (2022)

By :: | Published: 02/06/2022

The gaps left by a T-Rex painted in fluorescent red.

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Ponge

By :: | Published: 01/01/2022

Depuis longtemps, depuis que je sais que Francis Ponge…

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Histoire des monstres (2021)

By :: | Published: 11/12/2021

C’est dans l’attente d’un endormissement qui ne venait pas, en feuilletant un livre illustré sur les Océans…

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Jacques Derrida, To Save the Phenomena.

By :: | Published: 26/04/2021

In 1989 the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, wrote an essay on my early artwork entitled “Sauver les phénomènes”.

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Keams Canyon, May 1896 (2021)

By :: | Published: 23/04/2021

Six works (30×40 and 30×30 sizes) on Hopi children at the Keams Canyon Industrial School in 1896.

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Hostile Hopi (English, 2021)

By :: | Published: 23/04/2021

The following text is the premise to a work I’m doing, that is, the intervention on some photographs taken by Aby Warburg in the spring of 1896, in the North-East of Arizona (USA).

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Anabasis. Mario Rigoni Stern landscapes. (2015-2021)

By :: | Published: 31/03/2021

Mario Rigoni Stern (1921-2008) had two ‘anabasis experiences’ in his lifetime.

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Raubtiere (2020)

By :: | Published: 07/09/2020

Following on Zoology and From Cythera A  (2018-2019), this new series, entitled Raubtiere, features red fluorescent markings applied to original 19th-century zoological prints.

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Conversation with Zoran Janic, 2019

By :: | Published: 05/11/2019

I cannot conceive of art or an artist detached from any historical context, and the context of my artistic (and associated political) formation and commitment was…

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Return to Cythera (2018-2019)

By :: | Published: 05/03/2019

The main concern of this writing is the relationship of a contemporary artist to Greek and Roman Antiquity. This relationship is viewed through the works of several poets, painters, architects, who have also dealt with antiques.

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From Morgantina (2018)

By :: | Published: 08/11/2018

From Morgantina to Cythera and back.

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From Cythera series C (2018)

By :: | Published: 04/04/2018

Six woodcuts from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili are superimposed to photographs of real places…

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From Cythera series A (2018)

By :: | Published: 22/03/2018

But why am I interested in Cythera? Because I consider this island to be a sort of paradigm of the gap between a real place and the images of it created and transmitted by past artists.

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Zu einer Übersetzung von Petrarca (2016)

By :: | Published: 15/07/2016

Brief ohne Antwort.

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Etruscan Places, Intruders (2016)

By :: | Published: 16/06/2016

When I was a boy Antiquity was an amphora mouth on a sandy seabed not deeper than three meters. I would approach it with a trident in my hand and, at the top of it, a white tissue.

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Anabasis. Man-made nature (2016)

By :: | Published: 23/05/2016

The term “anabasis” means a “back home” journey in reference to the eponymous literary account (also known in English as The March Up Country) of the hapless Persian military expedition written by the 4th-century BC…

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In Tuscia, land paintings (English version) 2016

By :: | Published: 14/04/2016

A series of visual interventions in a « historicised » natural setting: a folder comprising a text and six digital prints giclée on offset paper 350 gr., sized 20×15 cm. A limited edition of 99, numbered and signed.

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Four Theses on the Aesthetics of Fascism (2003-2015)

By :: | Published: 17/03/2015

“I monumenti debbono giganteggiare nella loro necessaria solitudine”.
“Monuments must dominate by means of their necessary solitude” (Mussolini, 1936).

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Identifications and their shadows (2013-2015)

By :: | Published: 17/02/2015

History, Photography, Identification, Transient monuments

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In the Underbrush / Nella selva antica (2010-2015)

By :: | Published: 18/10/2014

The following is a survey of the sides of my work dealing with “historicized” nature and “naturalized” history

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Artworks 2010

By :: | Published: 07/04/2010

Antiquarium, replay ; Reprints ; Ex voto Remix ; Phantombilder…

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A variant to the Ishihara “pseudo- isochromatic” test (2005)

By :: | Published: 12/12/2009

1 . In 1917 , Professor Shibaru Ishihara ( 1879-1963 ) , a military doctor and future dean of the Imperial University of Tokyo , who had been a pupil of Stock in Jena, Axenfeld in Freiburg in Breisgau – and von Hess in Munich before being forced to return to his homeland following the […]

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A-museum (2001)

By :: | Published: 10/11/2009

“Could it be that technical means from a distant period, when used at the present time to recreate certain events, touch us even more than the awareness of the events themselves?”

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Asylum (2001)

By :: | Published: 10/11/2009

During World War II Naples suffered for only twenty days from the Nazi occupation, before a popular uprising and the advance of the Allies pushed the German Army out of the city. There was therefore no time for…

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Displaced Translations (2000)

By :: | Published: 10/11/2009

The language of symbols should be understood by everybody—it is assumed by the illiterate as well as the one who speaks a foreign language. This is why road signals and naval ones have been invented…

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Digressions of the Resistance (2000)

By :: | Published: 10/11/2009

1. At this moment I am in the vanguard. The letters that had to be written have been written, the housework is done, I have only to concentrate on my subject. I have only one aim and it is before me: I‘ve got to start and reach the conclusion of a text on the notion […]

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Emergency of the Proxenos (2000)

By :: | Published: 10/11/2009

1.Asylum On the 21st of April 753 BC. Romulus drew with a plough the furrow that would delimit and ground the city of Rome. The walls of the town were raised along the lines of the furrow. The line demarcated an inviolable space; Remus, Romulus’ twin brother, jumped over it as a challenge and was […]

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Translator’s scratching (2000)

By :: | Published: 10/11/2009

In his last book, The drowned and the saved, Primo Levi tells how, in occasion of the German edition of If this is a man, he had to face a problem regarding its translation.

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Leaving Pictures (1999)

By :: | Published: 09/11/2009

Leaving Pictures: Towards an Art of History Far from the Pictures was the title of an album by Kat Onoma, a French band whose musical offerings range from  Monteverdi’s  madrigals to Kraftwerk’s radioactive litanies.  Of course, there the thing was music, sound;  and those sounds, and that music, had a certain sobriety.  Therefore, the invitation […]

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Abstracts of Anamnesis (1995)

By :: | Published: 08/11/2009

We cannot think without images”, says Aristotle in his text On Memory and Recollection, and again: ‘memory, even the memory of concepts, cannot exist apart from imagery.”

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