Artist writing #19

This written work was commissioned by Simone Menegoi for the online column ‘Osservatorio Arte Fiera’ for the Bologna fair. People from the art world who had a connection to the fair and the region were invited to contribute. The guest was asked to share a recommendation: a show they had seen or a work that had impressed them, a place to visit, an artist to rediscover, connected to Bologna or to the region of Emilia-Romagna to add a ‘regional flavour’ to the column. I decided to write about Cesare Pietroiusti’s exhibition at the MAMbo before it even opened, writing a letter to the artist.
I decided to attribute the status of work to some of my writings, including them in the archive as such only in 2024. This text was written without the knowledge that it would have assumed the status of work in the future.

Artist's writings
The elements that make up the usual act of an artist’s writing are used here as an integral part of the system-process-work, so much so that I decided to catalogue them in the archive not just as documents but also as works.
They were written either because other artists asked for them, or they accompanied projects, or were read during conferences, or are published works and new writings. They are writings that almost never have an assertive-declarative structure, but which could rather be described as an epistolary-text, a confessional-text, an explicative-text of a feeling, an empathetic-text, a dedication-text, a description-text, a diary-text, an examination-text, a dialogue-text, etc.
I decided to give the status of work to a series of my writings in 2024 and since then I have selected others to add to the sequence.

Concept
 These works comprise words and concepts

Text
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Digital
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