THE ILLUSION OF THE PERFECT CENTURY text by Fabio Campagna “The Illusion of the perfect century” is a project of paintings and installations by Lapo Simeoni, developed for CORPO 6, that activates a deconstruction of the iconic apparatus of the contemporaneity – using images taken by various media of mass communication -. In order to depict the dynamic of the actual social scenario. Lapo Simeoni, through an alchemic process of transmutation, defines, in this way, a new syntactic interrelation between the selected iconic “objects”. Producing a reappropriation. A rewriting. Defining a lucid vision. What emerges is a “fresco” of the social conflicts. The friction within the “social body”. The vivid contradictions. The themes, taken under observation, include the problematic of borders. Assumed as symbolic figure of research and discussion. The limen between individuals, classes and politic configurations. A new scene is therefore represented without mystifications. A vivid, and cruel snapshot of the nowaday reality. A formal tract, that unifies the painting and installative practice of “The Illusion of the perfect century”, is the orange flu painting. A visual attractor that reinforces the process of individuation. A new perspective rushes to the surface of the communal acceptance of the facts. Defining the obscene and peremptory illusion of the perfect century. Fabio Campagna Berlin, 2014
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