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The Book
by Piero Golia
The Book by Piero Golia
Edited and conceived by Piero Golia - Gea Politi
Foreword (Engl/Ital): David Hunt
Texts (Engl/Ital): P. Ellis, P. Golia, F. Pasini, G. Politi, W.G. Thiel,
et al.
Pages: 128 (24 x 27 cm)
Illustrations: 48 col., 7 b/w
Publishing year: 2002
ISBN: 88-8273-037-9
Price: 39,00 h.c. and box
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Fine Arts Unternehmen Books presents:
The Book by
Piero Golia
"The book by Piero Golia" has just been released by Fine Arts
Unternehmen
Books. This publication is the first one of the new series The book
by,
which includes a number of monographs entirely conceived by the artist
in
collaboration with an independent curator and edited as an artists
project.
Golia is one of the most interesting contemporary young artists. He hit
art columns thanks to his audacious undertakings, balancing himself on a
thin line between super-manhood and self-irony, feeding some fabulous
chansons de geste. Piero G. who stops a girl on the streets and
convinces
her to tattoo his framed portrait stating Piero My Idol on her
back. Piero
G. pictured together with a blonde bombshell in front of luxury hotels
and
Californian swimming-pools, driving his Ferrari, the new prince of
Beverly
Hills. Piero G. camping on a Polaroid titled Me and J. Koons.
Piero G. who
accepts the invitation for the biennial of Tirana, underlining that he
will reach the port of Durazzo with a paddle boat, crossing the Otranto
channel the reverse way as the escape routes of Albanian illegal
immigrants. Piero G. that climbs up a seven meters high palm tree,
threatening to come down only when someone purchases one of his art
works.
Myths of contemporary art sprout and grow at breathtaking speed, are
overmeasure to you, bigger than life. Works and names dominate
the scene,
at times risking to undergo a metamorphosis becoming puppies and toys of
too colossal dimensions for whom is dedicated to their exposure,
photographing, commenting, publishing or purchase. Golia not only plays
the game, but places a higher bid in proposing this book which could be
defined as a real manual of theoretic. A short story and -
simultaneously
- a manual of instructions, with all the information and the necessary
processes needed to realize his works. All that, could lead us to
continue
his path on our own, or to admit our unsuitability to do so. This is
how,
Golia tries to short-circuit the whole art system or, better said, to
rewire the whole system in order to bound art within a closed circuit
between your brain and your heart.
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