TARANTO, IL MARE E LA CENERE, E IL MIO “COLLASSO”
(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
THE CROCODILE’S LAMENT: RECLAIMING THE RIVER, RESHAPING THE NARRATIVE
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 CROCODILE’S HOME: THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
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
CRY ME A RIVER OF CROCODILE TEARS: FLAVA TIBER
“[…] 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
PLEASE FLIP SOMEWHERE ELSE
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
PERIPHERAL BUT NOT IRRELEVANT
"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