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 Siegfried Anzinger 
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 John Dugdale 
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 Javier Gil 
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   | Luigi Ontani    

Born in 1945, Montovolo di Grizzana Moranti (Bo). He lives and works in Rome.

 
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Rattondo David, 1974

c-print on paper in golden frame
70 cm Ø
Courtesy Elisabetta Riscossa Collection, Turin
 
 
 

Bacchino posa, 1973
POSE = presence proposition as possibility to outline a self-ideal, probable freshness/intensity, according to a direct wording, or by quoting, rigorous multipurpose accumulation = POSE is a synthesis moment.
BACCHINO is the quotation case = icon of revealing outcome =
It is a conception /summary of the learning route =
It is the immediate sign of what has undergone meditation =
it is visualization of the postulate idea =
It is a token of the organic as a whole = it is the
accomplished task of the excursion
  = example/message of human depth = it is intrinsic deviation for heteroclite = it is pervading in vanity
"still statues" = it is the process of sweetening consciousness =
it is language radicalisation mood/lucidity as a native handsomeness
of life /culture = it is the condition of an actual connexion
for a further reality = it is seeing ...affected is like shattering...
if mentality/creativity = it is concept/rainbow refusal of being separate
= it is energy /present infinity = (and more) =

L. O.

(Body Art and similar stories, edited by Lea Vergine, Ginevra-Milano 2000)