Exhibition
“For us youngsters from the Po Valley, Piacenza and its surroundings was essentially a gastronomic day out, where salami was the most mouth-watering of Sunday treats. Returning to those gentle valleys, visiting Molino Calcagno and, in particular, an attic certainly partly intended for the drying of salami, I understood that it was there that I would do my work. I embraced the role of sausage designer, designing soft salami made of sponge, derivatives, one might fancy, of stuffed toy pigs. A camouflage project, respectful, non-violent, with a nod to Jacovitti, who liberally strewed hundreds of large and small salamis throughout his cartoons. On the walls reproductions of biblical psalms declaim an ode to the creation one can enjoy and observe from the numerous windows of the room, with a special focus on psalm 36, where the psalmist writes: “O Lord, thou preservest man and beast”, a central verse in the prayer of Christian vegetarians.”
Giulio Iacchetti
Designer and aspiring vegetarian
Where
Molino Calcagni
Strada Monteventano, Piozzano (PC)
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