which it erases the contradictions of the re-
cent past are of the same fragile stuff that
memory is made of, whether individual or
collective.”
Serretta, a good contemporary archaeologist,
manages to place the ruins of the future in
the imposing edifices of the present. Treating
the present as history and history as the fu-
ture, facts as fiction and fiction as truth, be-
comes his principal methodology. This is a
method by which we can already recognize
evidence in full sail in the skyscrapers of the
superstars in Dubai, the wreckage of neoli-
beral capitalism. Here is where the work of
Serretta can serve as a good guide along this
stretch of the trip.
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A mandala made of the most devalued of the
world's banknotes, following a purely chro-
matic logic (or works that magnify the power
of symbols like the signatures on banknotes),
empty the meaning of the concept of value
tied to money.
The silhouettes of the most powerful and
high buildings in the world are modeled using
only the parts of language. Drawings that
come to life through an obsessive repetition
of the magic economic 'formula' of neo-libe-
ral – Too Big to Fail, or the decomposition
and reconstruction of the pages of Il Sole 24
Ore and other related magazines on econo-
mics, are only a small part of the artistic ar-
senal used by Serretta in recent years.
Next to one of his recent sculptures – the
two demolition hammers in white plaster, we
read: “History will not produce more ruins.
It does not have time. But the weapons with
Hammers,
2015-2016, calchi in gesso, dimensioni variabili /
plaster casts, variable dimensions
Courtesy of the artist
