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Memento. The Obsession with the visible is a reflection on the criticality of the collective memory. From the apparatus of power to the expressions of the counter-monument, to urban planning, and to the tentacular control of the post-Fordist era, the obsession with the visible reveals the horizon of confrontation between the subversive capacity of art and critical thought and the colonization of the imagination in the society of the spectacle. Memento begins with the case of the never-completed monument to Costanzo Ciano in Livorno, touching on the aesthetic of European totalitarianisms, and analyzing several examples of international art from the past thirty years, concluding with a focused look at recent experimentation by Italian artists on the subject of power, its forms, its narratives, and its alternatives, through exchange and participation. Conversations with Jochen Gerz and Thomas Hirschhorn complete the book, proposing two different visions of the themes of the monument, authoriality, and the politics of the public sphere. 

Pietro Gaglianò (1975) has proceeded from his degree in architecture to study the relationship between the aesthetics of power and individual freedoms, regarding the urban and social contexts as the location of contemporary languages. He curates projects in Italy and abroad and experiments with hybrid structures which weave pedagogical experiences into traditional exhibition formats. 

Daria Filardo (1971) is art historian and independent curator.  She Teaches Contemporary Practices in the SACI 2 year Master program in Studio Art in Florence and  Visual Art and coordinates the Final Project in the Master course of IED (Florence). From 1998-2000 has worked as a resident curator at the public museum Palazzo delle Papesse Contemporary art Center in Siena. From 2001 is a free lance curator. Writes in Catalogues and art publications and is interested in long term projects that are articulated in writing and exhibition making.

Cover image: Maurizio Nannucci, Something Happened, 2009, Villa Medicea La Magia, Quarrata, courtesy Maurizio Nannucci & Zona Archives, Firenze; photo Carlo Cantini