Rhythms of the Palio 2000

(...) What Giovanni Santi's original photographic reconstruction points out is above all the story of the work of the artist Jim Dine, that is produced according to standards given by the client, and that has a predictable placement destiny, slinging, vision, exposition, conquest, glorious and joyful exhibition, daring touching, restoration and at last conservation in a quarter's museum. That is the strong intersection between an art object and an article for a social use, united by a game, a ceremony, a cult and a special passion
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Pietro Clemente