Fabiola Porchi's chicken beak sculpture graces Artribune Magazine cover

Fabiola Porchi (Bergamo, 1991) created the cover artwork for the new Artribune Magazine, part of the Fragile Surface series in collaboration with IED. Her project, titled "1 su 600.000.000," was selected from students of the Painting and Visual Languages course at Accademia di Belle Arti Aldo Galli – Como, following a three-week workshop on themes from the latest Venice Biennale. The sculpture depicts a chicken beak, made from paperclay porcelain mixed with shredded egg cartons, suspended from a brass wire at eye level. It critiques the practice of beak trimming in industrial farming, where 600 million chickens are killed annually in Italy. The artwork is presented on a yellow background, contrasting with the white porcelain to evoke death and the loss of the beak's natural color. Marco Bongiorni, the supervising professor, describes the work as both a delicate ceramic object and a weapon, a manifesto that critiques human-animal relations. The cover appears in Artribune Magazine #72.