Cesare Pietroiusti on capital's hypocrisies at Galleria Michela Rizzo

Cesare Pietroiusti's solo show 'Tecnologie obsolete e processi di produzione semplici' at Galleria Michela Rizzo in Venice scrutinizes value and capital's contradictions through simple, clean works. The exhibition opens with 'Riproduzione di “La mia migliore pittura di sempre”', a photograph of paint stains in a sink, questioning reproducibility and marketability. A wall of fire drawings is sold only as a set, with the buyer donating individual pieces to guests until the work disappears. The series 'Didascalie' and 'Introduzioni' offer conceptual maps on themes like 'Dono e debito' and 'Valore', juxtaposing verbal density with the primal fire drawings. The sound piece 'Newton' announces and reproduces everyday noises. A philatelic section features a 1954 'Pinocchio' stamp, emblematic of value inflation, forgery, and obsolescence. Upstairs, a workshop lets visitors create with fire and typewriters, adding to the show's corpus. Pietroiusti avoids moralizing, instead observing our sweet hypocrisies.