A few days away from Venice, but this happened while I was away.

First of all, the first letter of Aldo Piromalli arrived. This is the chapter No. 45 of the performance The Inadequate:

Aldo Piromalli’s letters.

Timing: random

The artist Aldo Piromalli might randomly send a series of letters to the Spanish Pavilion, addressed to The Inadequate.

Aldo Piromalli (Rome, 1946) is a poet and an artist. He wrote his first poem at the age of nine and soon became one of the protagonists of the Roman beat scene of the sixties. In 1971 he was sentenced to prison for marihuana use and, once released, left Italy and established himself in Amsterdam. He is the author of the graphic novel Psychiatry, or Death of the Soul (1977).

Then there was, on Saturday 25th, the projections of films by Alberto Grifi. The Grifi archive has been very generous with us and we have all the following films to be projected from now until the end of Biennale:

Verifica incerta (1964), Transfert per kamera verso Virulentia (1966-67), Autoritratto Auschwitz/L’occhio è per così dire l’evoluzione biologica di una lagrima (1965/68-2007), Il grande freddo (1971), Anna (1972-75), Il festival del proletariato giovanile al Parco Lambro (1976), Lia (1977), Michele alla ricerca della felicità (1978), Dinni e la normalina (1978), Anni 60 non stop (1967-1999).

Together with the dvds, we received an Alberto Grifi archive of images, some o them really stunning. Here is my selection:

Then on Sunday there was chapter 30 of the performance: Radicalitá, Rebiennale, Stalker, Baukuh: A conversation between: Francesco Careri, Maria Fiano, Edoardo Salzano, Pierpaolo Tamburelli, Marco Baravalle, Anna Daneri, and Stefano Graziani.

Here you find some images. It looks like a very closed circle for discussion- let’s hope it wasn’t.

Today begins our Robert Walser’s days. More soon.