Jacopo Benassi, Alessandro Di Giampietro

Jacopo Benassi MAKE WAR NO LOVE

Make war. Don't make love.
Break. Destroy. Hate.
Sweetness is useless.
The flowers are on strike and the skies are brown.
There are no photos—without images, perhaps we will return to thinking!
Even love.
Performance:
They're not bombs! It's just a drum kit!
Michele Lombardelli and Jacopo Benassi have been collaborating for several years,
bringing sound into the image through the audience.



Alessandro Di Giampietro ECHOS FOR A FORGOTTEN SELF

Alessandro Di Giampietro (Pescara, 1972), whose research stems from the observation of human identity understood as a set of layers that create iconic behavioral models in today's society.
The installation provides an overview starting from a selection of ‘chewed’ Polaroids (2009/2011). These are portraits of figures from the world of contemporary art whose identity changes according to the artist's interventions, which involve tearing and stitching
the images.
The theme of identity shift is found in “Chewed Plastic” (2022-2025)
made of transparent PVC, painted on the back, cut and reassembled with metal staples. Here, the archetypal masks, as in the case of the Rivelate, become stereotypes: they allude to facial plastic surgery, they have scars, they show wounds that have never healed
linked to the non-acceptance of identity, they are characterized by a chromatic saturation that corresponds to an expansion of the ego in the current domain of appearance.
The installation concludes with a series of documentary videos of performances, where masking becomes liberating. (from: Whatever you think I’m that’s what I am not.
2014/2019).
Text by Alberto Mugnani