Valentino Barachini, La Stupidità (Deluxe Edition), 2023

Valentino Barachini’s work reflects on the marriage of art and life: are they worlds that can coincide? Can we still talk about art nowadays? To answer these and other questions, the author documents the work of Alessandro Gaggio, an Italian sculptor, keeping as a common thread a concept expressed several times during interviews done by Matthew Licht: “In order to survive this sick world we must embrace and follow stupidity.”