Attraversò un campo di patate senza farsi alcun male

“(…) The main room, Una pura formalità (A Pure Formality), borrows its title from Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1994 film. Una pura formalità (2020-2021) is the name of the series consisting of 23 drawings, all depicting crocodiles and created with graphite, ballpoint pen or sepia on different types of paper, ranging from ordinary A4 printer paper to the finest French drawing card.
The plaster sculpture and potato installation scattered throughout the room also share the same title, Una pura formalità (2020).”

“(…) the sculpture on its green-tinted perch of a black-tinted plaster head of a youth. The style is that of monumental allegorical representations in the form of virile figures typical of the art of totalitarianisms of the last century, which are aesthetically equivalent whether they are Fascists, Soviets or Nazis. The sculpture also includes an anvil and a hammer, the latter broken, the broken fragment is repositioned on the young man’s head. A red wool thread wraps itself around it and cuts the face in a highly effective chromatic counterpoint, which, to me, reminds me of the colors of an anarchist flag”.

Pier Luigi Tazzi