Rä di Martino: Play it Again

The exhibition takes place on two floors inside the Forte Belvedere building. Four videos are presented on the first floor, three of which have been chosen from those made by the artist since 2014, while “The Laughing Dice” was made in recent months to be presented here. The second floor of the Palazzina is occupied by a single large installation by the artist.

Rä di Martino‘s works are inhabited by characters from pop culture who reappear, almost randomly, in the form of caricatures of their former selves, poised between the grotesque and the pitiful, giving rise to a sort of archaeology of the memory of mass culture. These characters, almost ‘heroes’ of our childhood, are catapulted into timeless or unhistorical settings, or even into totally different contexts, the result of an ironic cinematic citationism.

The estranging effect is one of the hallmarks of the Italian artist’s work, also achieved by an improper and imperfect use of special effects.