Just enough time to put it on and make a post.
«Dear Viola, you who have a good knowledge of the Florentine institutions, could you explain to me why they did this stupid thing? They removed a work of art “with brain” to place two useless cogl.. in its place! Could it be to affirm one’s existence? A sort of self-celebration but with caution! So I’ll try to give my interpretation: the cogl… on the left is an affirmation of the mental state that the municipal police would like to impose on everyone, the one on the right, however, is the result of policies without creativity, which our beloved Palazzo Vecchio has been disseminating with industriousness for decades. But luckily, dear Viola, you are there to make us dream every now and then, and you actually have a nice effect on me… what a shock! (For those who don’t know, Viola is the color and the name of the soccer team in Florence.)».
Whoever writes the colorful letter-poem online to comment on a new installation is Clet the urban artist which animates road signs with new meanings. Only a few days ago, denouncing the lack of two signs for a year (a prohibition and an obligation) at the entrance to Lungarno, Torrigiani had put up an installation with a lot of brains to underline how signs are not always necessary when people activate the Grey matter. At the same time Clet had reiterated via social media that his art is never an act of vandalism but an instrument of reflection that amplifies and does not remove meanings.
His installation-denunciation within a few hours had shaken up the operations of the municipal administration diligent in repositioning those signs.
But Clet has returned to the ‘scene of the crime’ with a new spectacular work. «This is called e
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