Jacopo Benassi, Alessandro Di Giampietro

Jacopo Benassi – MAKE WAR NO LOVE

Make war. Do not make love.
Break. Destroy. Hate.
Gentleness is useless.
The flowers are on strike, and the sky is brown.
No more photos – perhaps without images, thinking will start again.
Even about love.

Performance:
These are not bombs! It’s just a drum set!
Michele Lombardelli and Jacopo Benassi have been working together for several years, carrying sound into image, through people.

Alessandro Di Giampietro – ECHOES OF A FORGOTTEN SELF

The artistic research of Alessandro Di Giampietro arises from the observation of human identity as an interplay of facets that shape iconic behavioral patterns in contemporary society.

The installation offers an overview beginning with a selection of “chewed-up” Polaroids (2009–2011). These are portraits of figures from the world of contemporary art whose identity has been altered through the artist’s interventions—tears and reconstructions of the images.

The theme of identity shifts also recurs in the series Plastica masticata (2022–2025): works in transparent PVC, painted on the back, cut apart, and stitched back together with metal staples. Here, the masks of archetypes—such as in the case of the Rivelate—transform into stereotypes: they allude to plastic surgery, showing scars and unhealed wounds linked to the non-acceptance of one’s identity. They are characterized by a chromatic saturation that reflects the expansion of the ego in today’s age of appearances.

Text by Alberto Mugnaini (excerpt)

Foto Carmen Brucic