Chi non muore si rivende

Technical Sheet

Title

Year

2004

Dim

Site specific installation

Technique

collage on paper and wood, polyurethane silhouettes and painting on walls.

Exhib.

Assab One 2004 - La Nuova Generazione Artistica in Italia, Assab One, Milan, 2004

Notes

Chi Non Muore Si Rivende is Andrea Mastrovito's first major site-specific installation. Inspired by the spaces of the Ex-Gea in Via Assab in Milan where millions of books had been printed and bound in previous decades, Mastrovito created an enormous open pop-up volume from which emerged a series of silhouetted and screaming characters - one can recognize, among others, a self-portrait and various portraits of his friends - who, escaping imaginary threats, head towards a television broadcasting some of the first videos made between 2002 and 2004 by Mastrovito together with his director friend Marco Marcassoli. There is also a double reference to Maurizio Cattelan in the use of the animal silhouettes of The Musicians of Bremen and in the silhouettes of the three hanged puppets painted on the walls.

Technical Sheet

Chi non muore si rivende, installation view at Assab One, Milan, 2004

Chi non muore si rivende, detail

detail

Original sketch of the work, published in the exhibition catalogue

Inaugural performance with Marco Marcassoli and Andrea Mastovito distributing prints of ex-libris dedicated to Assab One.