Acies
This publication accompanies the exhibition “Acies” by Alessandro Di Massimo. It includes texts by Anastasia Philimonos and Alessandro Di Massimo and images of the show. A5, 18 pages, b/w, hand made cover made with sandpaper. First published by the artist for the exhibition “Acies”, 17 – 24 November 2017, The Number Shop, Edinburgh. All rights reserved.
This publication accompanies the exhibition “Acies” by Alessandro Di Massimo. It includes texts by Anastasia Philimonos and Alessandro Di Massimo and images of the show.
A5, 18 pages, b/w, hand made cover made with sandpaper.
First published by the artist for the exhibition “Acies”, 17 – 24 November 2017, The Number Shop, Edinburgh.
All rights reserved.
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Did you see the war?<br />
- Felix Guattari, 1996.<br />
<strong>Acies</strong> is an exhibition that responds to the concept of war by investigating<br />
its visual and iconographic aspects. The Latin word Aciēs , with its multiple<br />
meanings, discloses the aim of this exhibition, that is to comment on the<br />
correlation between spectacle and war.<br />
This new body of work could be seen as a visual response to the fictional<br />
representation of warfare given by the media, as well as an examination of<br />
how contemporary society reacts to the way modern conflicts are portrayed.<br />
Instead of focusing on images that are usually associated with the context<br />
of war (e.g. bodies, blood, weapons), this new body of work investigates on<br />
the peripheral imagery. Objects, images and motifs that are part of a warrelated<br />
scenario but not usually a primary symbolisation of it (e.g. textures,<br />
maps, songs, monuments).
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