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Pokalypsea - Apokalypse - Okalypseap

Fondazione Prada, Milano

Slight Agitation 3/4

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Inside the cisterna's three rooms, the viewer encounters three architectonic archetypes with distinct imperial-Roman overtones, executed in the artists’ signature choice of povera, ludic materials. First comes an obelisk hewn out of Styrofoam, accessible to only one visitor at a time; secondly, a triumphal arch made, in part, of plasticine, doubling as a fully-functioning fountain; thirdly, a colosseum-like structure built from discarded furniture, encircling a theatrically placed ashtray in its middle. Symbols as much as structures conceived for everyday inhabitation, these sculptures draw an arc from the insular and individual to the open-ended and collective, from the overtly erotic to the sublimated joy of togetherness.
Dieter Roelstraete

All images unless stated otherwise © Delfino Sisto Legnani e Marco Cappelletti, Courtesy Fondazione Prada