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  • Massimo Bartolini, La strada di sotto (The Street Below) (detail), 2011, mixed media video installation, 20 minutes 30 seconds.

    Massimo Bartolini, La strada di sotto (The Street Below) (detail), 2011, mixed media video installation, 20 minutes 30 seconds.

    Massimo Bartolini

    MASSIMODECARLO | Milan/Lombardia

    What seemed to be a parcel of earth, a sixteen-foot-tall fragment of a plowed field occupying a surface of roughly forty-three square feet titled Basement (all works 2011), proved on closer inspection to be made of bronze. Upstairs was an installation spread out on the floor, covering an area of about thirty-five by twenty-one feet, composed of three layers of lighting decorations of a type frequently used in southern Italy during religious festivals. The hundreds of colored lights that blink on and off in this piece, La strada di sotto (The Street Below), were attached to a white-painted wooden

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