FakeHistory Parco Nord Milano 2016

FalseFriend and Fake History are two series of works that belong to a single public art project that takes concrete form in the attachment of commemorative plaques that tell an invented (but plausible) story of a recent cultural figure. The works do not present themselves as images, but use storytelling to prompt viewers to create their own mental image of the narrated events. The ironic tone of the texts engraved in marble is the only hint of the ambiguous nature of the works in fact neither a caption nor the name of the artist accompany the works.
The description of something that never happened thus becomes a method of analysis of reality.
The project is constantly evolving and involves permanent and temporary installations in Parco Nord Milan, Munich, Trento, Carrara, Edolo and inside exhibition spaces as cantinamontone in Montoro, Casa Testori in Novate Milanese and Fondazione Francesco Fabbri in pieve di Soligo.

Fake History [Schifano], 2016, installation view at Parco Nord Milano IT, Carrara Marble plaque and steel, 80 x 230 x 5 cm
"Nel 1963, dopo aver visto i colori di questi campi coltivati Mario Schifano dipinse il suo primo Paesaggio Anemico"
"In 1963, after seeing the colors of these cultivated fields Mario Schifano painted his first Anemic Landscape"

Fake History [Hemingway], 2016, installation view at Parco Nord Milano IT, Carrara Marble plaque and steel, 80 x 230 x 5 cm

"In questi campi, nel 1918, lontano da occhi indiscreti Ernest Hemingway si appartò con una giovane donna di Bollate"
"In these fields, in 1918, away from prying eyes Ernest Hemingway withdraw with a young woman of Bollate"