Bolzano, Italy.
Dillon, Brian
ROSSELLA BISCOTTI
MUSEION * January 31 - May 25 * Curatecl by Letizia Ragaglia
"YOU MUST ACT; YOU MUST HIT; YOU MUST STRIKE FASCISM IN EVERY CASE
AND BY ALL MEANS!" Thus reads one of the statements Rossella
Biscotti repurposed for The Anarchists Do Not Archive, 2010, a work that
draws from the records of early-twentieth-century Italian radicals. The
texts are set in movable lead type--monumentalized and readied to print
in the same sculptural gesture. It's one of the artist's
greatest strengths, this compacting of fraught political histories and
their archival afterlives into a dense objecthoocl. A new version of
this work and four other efforts will be on view in Biscotti's
first solo show at an Italian museum. The earliest is The Prison of
Santo Stefano, 2011, for which she cast in lead portions of cell floors
froni a panoptical prison that opened in 1795; the most recent is a new
site-specific video for Bolzano. A catalogue will include essays by the
curator and Chus Martinez.