Deconstruction as a finale
Photo of the first edition of ‘quarantaquattro valutazioni‘ by Enzo Mari.
44 marble sculptures of similar but not identical shapes, which together constitute one huge hammer and sickle, and from a lithography that illustrates the forty-four numbered parts pieced together, like a puzzle. Each number corresponds to a title, which in actual fact is a line from a poem written especially for the occasion by Francesco Leonetti, and a price tag.
The prices are provocatively different from one another, and the single objects, once placed on individual pedestals, become aesthetically pleasing, thus reduced to pure exhibitive value, as if to say ‘the object appears to be sale-able if the ideology is not apparent, if it looks ‘nice’, if it has varying prices’.
