22. giugno 2015

This image of Satan absorbs what the church wanted to condemn and politically control: not just the pagan background of Europe, but specifically the rural and aboriginal faith in the circularity of nature and the self-regeneration of the whole countryside (that is the regeneration of the means of production themselves). The idea of the eternal return of life – with no divine intervention, no Genesis and no Apocalypse, but rather an alchemic and gastronomic cycle of digestion and regeneration...

16. marzo 2015

During my sojourns, works and photo shoots in South Korea I got to deepen my knowledge of Korean traditional theater and its masks. I have always loved the theater of masks since i was a child … since I first saw the italian “commedia dell’arte”. The Hahoe Maskdance Drama traditionally features eight madangs, (acts or perhaps skits), which incorporate music and dancing, but also slapstick and satire. It is told from the perspective of the Joseon Dynasty’s commoner class, which offers...