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Installazione Site specific , Cascata delle Marmore,  Terni. Curated by Gisella Gellini e Gaetano Gorica. August 2025

Klanglicht Graz, Austria October 2025.

In these pandemic times, one thing I’ve been thinking about is the fact that with the closure of all cultural spaces, it is more difficult to have the possibility to express ideas or concepts or communicate, except on digital platforms.
During the Berlin lockdown, I used to walk my dog every day in front of old abandoned vending machines and an idea came to me: why not imagine a low-cost street vending machine for vaccines, a kind of ‘postcard from the future’, as if the pandemic had (maybe) ended and the abandoned post-apocalyptic vending machines remained as a memory of a distant era?
So, one day I took the measurements and printed and pasted the three versions of the vaccine. My intention was nothing more than to make a simple and anonymous intervention to make people in my neighbourhood smile and think.
I would never have imagined that on Saturday morning (20 February, ed.) I would find my intervention as the image of the first news item when I opened Der Spiegel, one of the most authoritative and read newspapers in Germany, on an article about vaccines and the diatribes about their different effectiveness. The caption read ‘Vaccine machine in Berlin: a topic that has become a real religious dispute’. Then I searched the web and realised that it had gone viral, appearing in the image gallery of the Berliner Morgenpost and in other blogs and newspapers.
Apart from the fact that the work remains anonymous, the connection between the vaccine to go and its potential virality was amusing, and I think that, especially at this difficult time, it is interesting to let ourselves be called by the reduced reality that we perceive, especially outside our homes, intervening spontaneously on it to wring a smile, create small provocations, let ourselves be guided by the objects that surround us, and above all use our imagination.
We can imagine anything, and once we have imagined it there is a greater chance than before that it will somehow manifest itself in reality and expand the narrow boundaries of our existence”

Opening 20 January 2020

ONE TOO FREE solo Show , Main project ARTCITY Bologna

PROGRAM

20th JANUARY 18:00

OPENING EXHIBITION

ONE, TOO, FREE. Specchi, ombre, visioni ALESSANDRO LUPI

Spazio Arte

21th JANUARY 21:00

CATTEDRALE SOMMERSA |Drowned Cathedral| ZIMMERFREI

Live soundtracks played by Massimo Carozzi from unedited footage of  Zimmerfrei’s film “Almost nothing”.

Mediateca

24th JANUARY 18:30

MEET THE ARTIST

Alessandro Lupi

Artist in conversation with Federica Patti.

Spazio Cultura

25th JANUARY 18:00

HOW LONG IS FOREVER?

Images/actions between ethics, aesthetics and human sciences

Symposium in collaboration with NERO editions

Valentina Tanni

Barbara Henry

Giovanni Matteucci

Fabio Benfenati

Moderator: Federica Patti

Mediateca

25^th JANUARY 21:00

GNUQUARTET

Sound performance

Unipol Auditorium Enea Mazzoli

26th JANUARY 18:00

CONCETTO E GLI SPECCHI

from Inventario Pozzati

Electronic live reading with FRANZ BRINI and ANGELA MALFITANO

Mediateca

ONE TOO FREE, solo show at CUBO CULTURA, Unipolsai Fondation, BOLOGNA, ITALY.

OPENING 20 January 2020.

4-7 July 2019, during the Jazz in the Park, Cluj-Napoca. Romania