"Buone vacanze" by Mauro Folci
29/06/2017.
[Rome] Italy
metalocus, JOSÉ FABERO
metalocus, JOSÉ FABERO
Mauro Folci investigates the human-animal duality, traces through the language in the form of a photonovela the productive human structure of the capitalist system and its binary logic of time, in this way suggests a third way that defines free time and reconciles with the animal entity, The "Vacanze".
"Buone vacanze" written on a neon lights. Photograph © Mauro Folci
Luminous room, showing illustrated stories. Photograph © Mauro Folci
Graphic novel composed by Pictures. Photograph © Mauro Folci
Graphic novel composed by Pictures. Photograph © Mauro Folci
Video shown at the exhibition. Photograph © Mauro Folci Video expuesto en la exposición. Fotografía © Mauro Folci
Bear sleeping in the "Dark room". Photograph © Mauro Folci
Chat after the exhibition in a surrounding bar. Photograph © Rita Mandolini
Chat after the exhibition in a surrounding bar. Photograph © Rita Mandolini
“Happy Holiday”, a ready made modified by the artist, is the neon phrase that embrace the visitor in entering Mauro Folci’s show at Auditorium in Rome.
Taking advantage of the peculiarity of the exhibition space, divided into two communicating rooms, the artist uncovers the dialectic relationship between bios and zoe (political qualified versus unpolitical qualified life), on which Western capitalism is founded.
Whereas the philosophical photo stories in the outer and luminous room are an homage to the irony of language and the mot d’esprit of the human intellect, the mysterious power of the animal world pervades the inner and obscure room through the powerful presence of a masterly projected sleeping bear.
The artist constructs so a coherent visual narrative, which tends to blur the perverse dichotomy of Western capitalist binary logic, promoting instead a line of flight, that of an essential inactivity as theorized by Agamben, which sees precisely in the holiday, as vacancy time separated from work time, the perfect device.
Text by Anna Cestelli Guidi
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Dates
April 20th, to May 21th, 2017
Artist
Mauro Folci
Venue
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Via Pietro de Coubertin, 30th, 00196 Rome, Italy
Mauro Folci
Mauro Folci.- (1598) Artist, professor of Performing Arts and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. Since the mid-90s the work of Mauro Folci reflects on the contemporary forms of work that transfer from the human language to the labour and currency as form of exchange. These works come from a profound reflection on the different linguistic forms of the contemporary metropolis, and in particular those forms that trace the unique escape routes of the dominant productive language.
His works have been present in different places among them:
Kunstverein Frankfurt, Neue Kunstforum di Colonia, Museo de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Sofia Imber de Caracas, PAN di Napoli, Maxxi y Macro en Roma, SUPEC di Shanghai, Centre Pompidou di Paris, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Haus der Kulturen Der Welt en Berlin, Biennale di Venezia di Arte e di Architettura, CCCB y Arts Santa Mònica en Barcelona.
