ROOM 6 – IN THE OTHER KITCHEN
Placebo (2018), a Fogarolli’s work, a play on the relationship between natural and artificial that combines a drug capsule with the chrysalis of a dragonfly.In the diptych Just One (2017) of Berta the woollen mantle of a sheep – white, of a uniform beauty – is shorn in a show of praise for imperfection. The short-circuit created by this representation is further accentuated by the fact that the animal is placed on a pedestal, parodically evoking the idea of an equestrian monument, in which, instead of the martial features of Andrea del Verrocchio’s Colleoni or the haughty ones of Donatello’s Gattamelata (the two great Renaissance models), we find those of an animal devoid of any heroism.
