Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, GAMeC, Italy
Alessandro Rabottini, curator
I Verdi Giorni, 2000
2’30”
Cartoon filmed with Digital Betacam PAL
Courtesy Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
Edition of 5
The animation portrays a group of children performing an act of pure and seemingly unmotivated aggression. Nothing in the designation of the victim reveals the existence of a will or logic that are not part of the game, and the roles of the aggressors are arbitrary and interchangeable with the role of the one being attacked. The violence ends exactly as it began: the immediate impulse of energy that generated it stops abruptly and is transformed into a moment of stunned incredulity and aching relief.
Diego Perrone was born in 1970 in Asti, Italy, although he lives and works in Berlin. His work probes the most intense aspects of human psychology, the moments of relations and existence. He had solo shows at MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna and CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain in Bordeaux (2007). His works were also exhibited as part of collective shows at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nimes in 2007, amongst others.