DIGIMAG 35 - JUNE 2008

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Xing)”, could take advantage of this event in order to become more and more known in a potentially interesting context.

audiovisual aperitif. In the program there were six videos, selected by the author, of his 1970s works, but, for lack of time and for the incredible improvisation of the artist, everything changed: the number of videos (abridged versions) was cut, and more importance was given to the presentation of the author who, as you will have understood, expressed his opinions about the condition of art in Milan.

It is an explicit effort to bring joy to everyone in a city that is unfortunately accustomed to a really different Letizia (in Italian it means joy, but it is also the name of Milan mayor).

Charlemagne Palestine is considered the rebellious son of musical minimalism and, in his artistic career, he often used moving images to create his own style. Since the 1970s up to present days, he created some documentaries and shorts, homogeneous from a technical and thematic point of view.

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Charlemagne Palestine came to Milan and turned the knife in the wound of a city, of a country, where culture has become (as Loos would say) just mere appearance. Milan Triennial represent the era in which we live; Milan Triennial hosts but snubs, contains but isn’t: Gabibbo teaches! (don’t forget that the worst “exhibition”, organized by an Institution born during the Fascism, was “Venti di Striscia”, that lasted for one month!!!).

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In Body Music I (1973) what is filmed is Palestine himself who, in a sterile room without any decoration, sings a mantra in a trance. In this

A video retrospective introduced by the author in just one hour time is like a Guinness world record, it seems to be impossible and infeasible: an 78


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