The man who realized he wasn’t fat on May 5th, 1994, and to celebrate did a striptease, and once he by Antonio Guiotto

The man who realized he wasn’t fat on May 5th, 1994, and to celebrate did a striptease, and once he

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Appropriating the work of other artists — sometimes just one, other times several — in an attempt to reuse it and transform it into something else. An operation that resembles more the process of a “musical cover” than a tribute to someone. These are quotations, but at the same time they become personal works. All of this is a direct consequence of my graduation thesis, “How to Reproduce Certain Contemporary Artworks (and How Hard Can It Be to Make a Fontana?)”, in which I explored the importance of reproducing famous artworks in order to reinterpret them and turn them into something different, sometimes trying to transform one work into another through a process that is both logical and playful. In this experiment, three works are fused together: a “fat” piece in the style of Erwin Wurm, with layers of clothing, begins a striptease inspired by 5 May 1994 by Peter Land. Once the stripper finally reaches complete nudity, he gathers all the piled-up clothes and, in a kind of pose, recalls Venus of the Rags by Michelangelo Pistoletto.

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