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Lot Essay
Studenti, installazione presentata a Milano alla Galleria Volpi nel 1992, traspone lo spettatore nelle aule di una scuola d’arte durante una ipotetica pausa. Vi sono solo le tracce di una presenza umana, come se si trattasse della scena di una performance già avvenuta. Oltre ai tavoli e agli attrezzi da lavoro vi sono pezzi di materiali impiegati per le esercitazioni, spesso incompiute: quadri, fotografie, schizzi e schemi. Tema dell’esercitazione scolastica, nell’ambiente abbandonato in cui prevale l’impiego del piombo, sono le esecuzioni capitali di Tienanmen dopo i moti del Movimento Studentesco in Cina nel 1989. Tra le molte opere emergono le riproduzioni fotografiche di giovani inginocchiati che stanno per essere messi a morte da altri giovani in divisa, i volti ugualmente smarriti. Vi si rappresenta quella gioventù vittima inconsapevole di se stessa a contatto con i durissimi ingranaggi della storia, e lo scontro violento e iniquo tra le generazioni adulte del potere e i giovani biologicamente e culturalmente ignari, già tema di alcune delle performances più famose dell’artista come Che cosa è il fascismo e Dramophone.
DORA ACETO
Studenti [Students], the installation presented at Galleria Volpi in Milan in 1992, brings the audience to the art school's classroom during a hypothetical break. There are only a few traces of human presence, as if the performance had already taken place. Besides the tables and tools, there are the materials used during the exercises, often left incomplete: paintings, photographs, sketches and schemes. The theme of the projects of the students, who work in an abandoned environment where lead is mainly used, is the student-led demonstration and consequent massacre known as the “Tiananmen massacre” which took place in China in 1989. Among the works there are pictures of young men kneeling who are about to get executed by other young men in uniforms: their expressions are equally lost. The artist represents these young people, here unknowingly victims of themselves, at the mercy of some of the most tragic events in human history, as well as the violent and unfair conflict between the old and powerful generations and the biologically and culturally unaware young ones. This had already been the theme of some of Mauri’s most famous performances, such as Che cosa è il fascismo and Dramophone.
DORA ACETO
DORA ACETO
Studenti [Students], the installation presented at Galleria Volpi in Milan in 1992, brings the audience to the art school's classroom during a hypothetical break. There are only a few traces of human presence, as if the performance had already taken place. Besides the tables and tools, there are the materials used during the exercises, often left incomplete: paintings, photographs, sketches and schemes. The theme of the projects of the students, who work in an abandoned environment where lead is mainly used, is the student-led demonstration and consequent massacre known as the “Tiananmen massacre” which took place in China in 1989. Among the works there are pictures of young men kneeling who are about to get executed by other young men in uniforms: their expressions are equally lost. The artist represents these young people, here unknowingly victims of themselves, at the mercy of some of the most tragic events in human history, as well as the violent and unfair conflict between the old and powerful generations and the biologically and culturally unaware young ones. This had already been the theme of some of Mauri’s most famous performances, such as Che cosa è il fascismo and Dramophone.
DORA ACETO