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Giulio Ciavoliello FlashArt February 1999

…The bricoleur of the digital era is a distracting builder who exploits all the opportunities offered by the re-use of the existent and by the combination of different realities in order to realize concrete paradoxes. He creates suspensions of sense, makes us dwell on recurring motives, amplifies the commonplace, interrupts the correspondence between perceptive capability and real perception makes the unique and the serial co-exist, presents uncommon interpretations of the already existent,
camouflages but does not cancel differences. Just think of all the work that Maurizio Mercuri has been carrying out for several years. For example in his fountain he associates an ordinary outdoor object, a decorous symbol of well-being for a quiet low middle class house, with beer foaming and flavoury. Through an improper use a witty remark is materialized. Extraordinary is the video where Mercuri* does nothing but yawning every now and then: the viewer ends by doing the same, confirming the saying of the catching character of yawning.

*Errata: the man yawning in the video is not Mercuri but a performer


 

 


 
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