“ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music to bring you a special bulletin from intercontinental radio news. at 7:40 am central time, professor farrell of the mount jennings observatory, chicago, illinois, reports observing several explosions of incandescent gas, occurring at regular intervals on the planet mars. the spectroscope indicates the gas to be hydrogen and moving towards the earth with enormous velocity (…) it is reported that at 8:50 p.m. a huge, flaming object, believed to be a meteorite, fell on a farm in the neighborhood of grovers mills, new jersey (…) the ground is covered with splinters of a tree it must have struck on its way down. what I can see of the … object itself doesn’t look very much like a meteor, at least not the meteors I’ve seen. It looks more like a huge cylinder (…) just a minute! something’s happening! (…) this is terrific! this end of the thing is beginning to flake off! the top is beginning to rotate like a screw! (…) this is the most terrifying thing I’ve ever witnessed…  (…) someone’s crawling out of the hollow top… someone or… something. (…) it might be a face… it might be… [shout of awe from the crowd] (…) i have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, both the observations of science and the evidence of our eyes lead to the inescapable assumption that those strange beings who landed in the jersey farmlands tonight are the vanguard af an invading army from the planet mars. the battle that took place tonight at grovers mill has ended in one of the most startling defeats ever suffered by an army in modern times” (“the war of the worlds”, orson welles).

art does not lie #1 / 2020 /  paint on aluminium plate / 90 x 120 x 2 cm

art does not lie #2 / 2020 /  paint on aluminium plate / 90 x 120 x 2 cm

art does not lie #3 / 2020 / paint on aluminium plate / 90 x 120 x 2 cm

art does not lie #2 / 2020 / paint on aluminium plate / permanent collection at maam / museo dell’altro e dell’altrove / rome / 90 x 120 x 2 cm

art does not lie (site specific installation)

“tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, / creeps in this petty pace from day to day / to the last syllable of recorded time, / and all our yesterdays have lighted fools / the way to dusty death” / “we defy augury. there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. if it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. the readiness is all. since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is ‘t to leave betimes? let be” (william shakespeare) / tomorrow is forever. “and so on. (pause) be again, be again. (pause) all that old misery. (pause) once wasn’t enough for you. (pause)” (samuel beckett) / “the truth is out there (…) to find the truth, you must believe. to understand the truth, you have to believe” (the x files).

art does not lie / 2019 / warning billboards in the small town of casacalenda (campobasso) on the Apennines / site specific installation / maack, open air museum of contemporary art