| The Christmas tree has an international symbolic
value and it means safety
from different points of view: home and family safety, safety deriving
from
tradition and from what is “customary,” the safety inspired
by shared
symbols of cultural and social identity.
The fact of being made of barbed wire, which is only recognizable
at a close view, means the “deceptiveness” of everything
and it represents a specific reference to very current “insecurity”
feelings: the insecurity of both a laic and a religious culture
(ours), menaced by the presence and the contamination of other cultures
and religions broughtby migratory flows; the insecurity deriving
from the ever increasing sight around ourselves of “symbols”
which do not belong to us, which we don't recognize and which we
live with anxiety; the fear of terrorism, which way of operating
inherently makes our “houses” insecure as well; the
insecurity coming from the weakening of family bonds and values.
— Eredi Brancusi
Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Placentia Arte,
Piacenza; 2001: Il Graffio, Bologna; 2000: Luigi Franco, Turin.
Selected group exhibitions: 2002: Last minute,
Ex Ospedale Soave, Codogno, Italy; Sito del Corso, Villa dei Laghi,
Parco de La Mandria, Turin; 2001: Le Tribù dell’arte,
Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; 2000: Vedere
Voci, Luigi Franco, Turin; Ironic, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy;
Le ombre della memoria, En Plein Air, Pinerolo, Italy; 1999: La
casa, Mauro Nicoletti, Rome; Omaggi Oltraggi, Ciocca, Milan.
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