Visual artist and researcher Alán Carrasco presents his work Le due differenti fasi della tensione in the Mediateka Gallery. It was created during his residency at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome in 2021.
Description:
Under the heading 100+1, referring to the commemoration of the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922- 1975)’s birth, this installation is a neon sign reading Le due differenti fasi della tension (The two different stages of tension). It is part of a fragment from the Italian director’s “Corsair Writings”, reproducing the typography of the author’s typewriter, an Olivetti Lettera 22.
Scarcely a year before his murder on 14th November 1974, Pier Paolo Pasolini would write his famous Corsair Writings titled “Cos’è questo golpe? Io so” (What is this coup? I know) in the newspaper Corriere della Sera.
In the context of the convulsive Italian “Years of Lead”, the author claimed to know “the names of those controlling the two different phases (in fact, opposing) of tension” in reference to the names of the authors (material and intellectual) of the massacres they had been orchestrating until that period.
Underlining the premonitory character of Pasolini’s writing, this work alludes to the attacks on the Piazza Fontana (12th December 1969) and Bologna Central Station (2nd August, 1980), a macabre parenthesis supporting to a large extent all the violence of that period.
Furthermore, Mediateka Gallery has a reference space where the public can consult Pier Paolo Pasolini’s bibliography and filmography.
The work will remain turned off throughout the day in the Mediateka Gallery except between 4:37 p.m. and 10:25 a.m. times, when the aforementioned attacks took place. By way of a small poetic gesture which aims to throw some light on such notorious events, this disturbing sentences reminds us during the hours of less daylight that the “strategia della tensione” (strategy of tension) was above all a political operation.
Courtesy of ADN Galería and Alán Carrasco.
