On January 20, 2017, @ 00:01 The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Cards by Lanfranco Aceti was quietly launched in the maelstrom of contemporary tensions. This project is inspired by the complexity of contemporary society, its upheavals, crises, and turmoils. It is a project in which the role of the artist and that of the curator meld, generating confusing existential post-truths, ethical conflicts, truthful
A new exhibition titled Back to Basics: Uncanny in which I have a set of artworks and an installation. This group show curated by Artemis Potamianou sees the participation of Lanfranco Aceti, Misha Cattaui, Kalos & Klio, Simon MacEwan, Elisabeth Penker, Aggelos Antonopoulos, Augustus Veinoglou, Vasilis Zographos and Ioannis Savvidis. The exhibition, the first of a two parts show, at the Enia Gallery, from December
nEUROsis is the new group show that I am participating in and takes place in Limassol, Cyprus. The exhibition deals with issues related to the contemporary socio-economic upheavals. "The global financial crisis of the past eight years is heavily impacting most European Mediterranean countries, destabilising not only the symbolic structures of Europe expressed in its initial agreements as unity, stability and equality but also the
“Hope, Hope, fallacious Hope! Where is thy market now?” Joseph Mallord William Turner Hope Coming On is a performance conceived and curated by Lanfranco Aceti (MoCC) and with the gracious participation of the Boston Children’s Chorus (Anthony Trecek-King, Artistic Director and Ben Hires, Director of Programs). The choreography has been realized in collaboration with Betsi Graves and Alexander Davis at Urbanity Dance. The performance will take
The Lady with a Revolutionary Parrot is a new work of art by Lanfranco Aceti - part of the series The Fat Cat Was Here. The artwork premiers at Art Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, and focuses on the processes of enslavement and exploitation of beauty to create contemporary corporate propaganda. The artwork challenges contemporary notions of engagement and questions the role that artists
The Fat Cat Was Here is the title of a new series of works of art by Lanfranco Aceti. A part of this collection, created expressly for Art Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, was inspired by contemporary economic and social struggles. Exhibited as part of the platforms projects in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Cuts and commissioned and curated by Artemis Potamianou this new
It’s All Greek to Me is a new exhibition that I am part of and that runs from November 26, 2015 to January 9, 2016. This is a co-curated group exhibition by Artemis Potamianou and Julie René de Cotret, featuring the works of: Lanfranco Aceti, Campus Novel, Jefferson Campbell-Cooper, Kostas Christopolous, Yiannis Grigoriadis, Yiannis Isidorou, Jenny Marketou, Giorgos Papadatos, Poka-Yio, Artemis Potamianou, Makrigiannis Stilianos &
Soma is a new series of artworks by Lanfranco Aceti exhibited at Supermarket 2015 in Stockholm which focuses on the use of the human body and the contradictions and failures of contemporary social politics in Europe. Soma consists of an installation, a series of drawings, texts (oil paint on canvas) and a performance. The performance will provide the public with the ‘opportunity’ to slap, for
Who the People? is a series of new artworks produced by Lanfranco Aceti and installed at Chetham's Library and Museum as part of their permanent collection. The artworks, 16 framed prints, deal with issues of identity, data, post-capitalism and enslavement. Based on a concept of portraiture that mixes data, surveillance and the erasure of individuals’ stories, the installation at Chetham’s Library generates a narrative on
Who the People? is a series of artworks presented for FutureEverything in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, Department of Design Informatics. This is a new art project based on a series of recent works produced by Lanfranco Aceti that represent, through the use of data and social media, the relationship between people’s participation in and support of systems of data-mining, dehumanization, bureaucratic enslavement and
