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Xiloreportage Petrolio2020 - in progress
Petrolio, the dark soul, of contemporary society.Petrolio in Italian means Oil.In Italy there is the largest European oil field, it is in Basilicata, in a poor and immaculate area of southern Italy now destroyed.The Petrolio Project is a voice of protest, one of many voices of protest.
This series of woodcuts is a travel diary made following the “oil road”.
Each work is 12×31,5 cm
This series of woodcuts is a travel diary made following the “oil road” From London to south of Italy.This woodcut series is a travel diary born during the lock down of the Covid-19 Emergency. Everything started in the end of February 2020 as an investigation of urban areas of London and Rome in the time of changing.
June 2020 - Petrolio Xiloreportage Part 2: following the “oil road” to report, with woodcuts, the social and environmental disasters that are happening in Basilicata.
July 2020 - Petrolio Xiloreportage Part 3: Sustainability. Following the circadian rhythm. Is it possible to re-appropriate time and space by experiencing how long our body needs to adapt to a new environment? I think it is necessary to reflect on the hectic rhythm of contemporary society by experimenting with slowness, idleness, self investigation.It was a 4-day journey walking and cycling 350 k from the Opificio della Rosa to the Metati area - the chestnut dryers - in the Apennines to collect traces of an ancient economy based on chestnuts and coal.
