Cristiano Carotti's Mediterranean Monsters at White Noise Gallery

Cristiano Carotti (born 1981 in Terni) presents a solo exhibition at White Noise Gallery in Rome, exploring contemporary nationalism through ancient mythological filters. The show features works like "Scilla" (2018), a polychrome ceramic depicting wolf heads and sea serpents as instruments of death, and "Cariddi," a Sicilian female face with sculpted abs housed in a Roman amphora form displayed in the gallery's lower-level hold. Carotti also includes a pedalo armed against migrant boats, critiquing Sunday soldiers and aspiring executioners. The exhibition uses Plato's metaphor of the Mediterranean as a pond surrounded by frogs to highlight the sea as a corrupting highway for amphibious peoples. The review by Raffaele Orlando, an archaeologist and Ministry of Culture official working at the Reggia di Caserta, was published on Artribune in December 2018.