The poster is based on a suggestion that emerged from the sound of words like”presence” (Ernesto De Martino) and “absence” (Massimo Fagioli).Words that circulated in the cultural environment of the second postwar period. Starting from this assonance, I moved on to the story, in an actually too synthetic way, of the history of the humanity from its beginnings to the present days. I am sure that this is an absurd and criticizable presumption, but it seemed to me that the proposal that moved me had its own reason in identifying the birth of two medicines, that of the “body” (male) and the more irrational one of anxieties, of”Crisis of presence” (female). With giant leaps we reach our time with Mesmer,Ernesto De Martino, and finally the resolution of this theme with the discovery of Massimo Fagioli with the ‘human birth theory’. The structure of the “poster”consists of a title that refers to the last part and that contains four narrow and long rectangles all ninety centimeters wide where sculptures and my writings alternate in spaces that run, very, very freely, these historical suggestions. The sculptures are: 1) Venus from the Upper Paleolithic, about 23,000 years ago found in Amiens-Renancourt in France.
Then by Massimo Fagioli: 2) Animal Woman – April 1994, 3) Blue Sculpture of 1999 (there must be a photo of the one with the red arrow here), 4) Black Woman-April 1994, 5) the Giant, golden remake of 2016, 6) Magic Project -May 1995.
Precisely because of the workmanship and freedom expressed in these writings, it seems impossible to me to create a bibliography. They are proposals that refer to a life of reading, listening, presentations, conferences, exhibitions. In short,it is a very long personal training, in which I absorbed with full hands everything interesting that I encountered and then try to transform it, if I can, into forms of art.The books that led to this proposal are quoted directly on the poster.
