(English version below.) Nel 2023, la città di Taranto ospitò due mostre al Palazzo Pantaleo e una nuova opera commissionata per l'occasione dal titolo: Collasso. Un’opera questa che chiedeva al visitatore non solo di osservare, ma di confrontarsi attivamente con il suo significato. Esibita al CRAC Puglia sotto la direzione artistica di Giulio De Mitri, e come parte della mostra Monumental Elements a Palazzo
Lanfranco Aceti’s The Crocodile’s Lament continues his ambitious four-part series exploring the environmental and cultural crises of our time. Following The Home of the Crocodile and leading to A River of Crocodile Tears and The Flight of the Crocodile, this second chapter focuses on the Tiber River, transforming it into a site of memory, resistance, and renewal. In collaboration with Tevereterno, IPER Festival delle
Lanfranco Aceti’s The Crocodile’s Home confronts the intertwined environmental and cultural crises of the 21st century through the intimate lens of the home. Premiering in the spring of 2024 with a thought-provoking installation at the Museo dell'Altro e dell'Altrove (MAAM) in Rome, the project transforms rivers—often dismissed as mundane elements of the landscape—into powerful loci of refuge, memory, and contested identity. Aceti employs the
“[…] hunc inter fluvio Tiberinus amoeno verticibus rapidis et multa flavus harena in mare prorumpit […]” Virgil. What remains of the mythology of the blonde Tiber, strictly linked as it is to the birth of Rome and over 2000 years of history, as its waters dwindle season after season? Lanfranco Aceti’s A River of Crocodile Tears dives into the heart of his four-part series
Now that I am less occupied with the works of art I created for the Venice Architecture Biennale, I have the time to write a post that I wanted to publish for a rather long time. It is about the economics of art and the role that buyers, collectors, commissioners [1], and patrons play in my life. Since I look at this relationship both
"Silence does not mean surrender!" Lanfranco Aceti, Athens, 2018. Performance. Curated by Artemis Potamianou. Peripheral but not Irrelevant: Peripheries' Contribution to the Centrality of the Globalized Cities (Periferico ma non Irrilevante: Il contributo delle Periferie alla Centralità delle Città Globalizzate) is the talk that I will give to discuss some of my recent artworks installed at and performed as part of the Italian Pavilion, Resilient
"One world approved thy wisdom; another, mine." Antigone, Sophocles Zero Fucks to Give is a work of art for Platforms Project, Athens, Greece, May 14-31, 2020. It consists of a talk, a manifesto, and a video performance. It is part of a larger set of artworks started in 2017 with the same title. Zero Fucks to Give: A Talk, a Manifesto, and a Work of
"Even if you encounter opposition, have conviction and finish what you start. People in the end will understand." Kotoko Wamura Living After the Apocalypse is a curatorial proposal I conceived and developed when I was invited to submit a conceptual framework for an art and architectural biennial in 2011. While I was writing and preparing the proposal an earthquake happened in Japan and the
Digital Media and Democracy, aka From Democracy to Post-Citizenship is a panel I am organizing at MIT for the Media in Transition 10 conference entitled Democracy and Digital Media with the assistance of Rob Halperin. The panel was developed following the encouragement of Professor William Uricchio, Department of Comparative Media Studies at MIT. The panel seeks to engage with and discuss issues related to contemporary
Reduced: Uninfluential, Disintegrated, and Bent is a new exhibition and sculptural installation by Lanfranco Aceti. With a series of writings on paper, paintings, photocopies of stones, foliage, and grass, rolled out fax paper, videos, and vinyl cutouts the exhibition explores the meaning of reduced forms of democracy and citizenships. The consumption of what is left, the remainder to use Baudrillardian terminology, is a hypermarketed but
