Lanfranco Aceti’s The Crocodile’s Flight continues his ambitious four-part series exploring the environmental and cultural crises of our time during the IPER Festival delle Periferie with an installation and performance in piazza Tevereterno on May 14, 2025. Following A River of Crocodile Tears, The Home of the Crocodile, and The Crocodile's Lament, this last chapter focuses on the Tiber River symbolisms, transforming it into a
Lanfranco Aceti’s The Crocodile’s Flight continues his ambitious four-part series exploring the environmental and cultural crises of our time. Following A River of Crocodile Tears, The Home of the Crocodile, and The Crocodile's Lament, this last chapter focuses on the Tiber River symbolisms, transforming it into a site of memory, resistance, and renewal. In collaboration with Tevereterno, IPER Festival delle Periferie, and the Museo delle
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 7, 2025, 12:00 Introducing the Trump Museum: A Monument to Visual Culture and the American Dream Austin–February 7, 2025, 12:00–Lanfranco Aceti, artist and curator, announces the Trump Museum—the first institution of its kind—dedicated to preserving and celebrating Donald J. Trump’s visual legacy and the material culture that has shaped his public life over the past two decades. Trump’s visual achievements
(English version below.) Nel 2023, la città di Taranto ospitò due mostre al Palazzo Pantaleo e una nuova opera commissionata per l'occasione dal titolo: Collasso. Un’opera questa che chiedeva al visitatore non solo di osservare, ma di confrontarsi attivamente con il suo significato. Esibita al CRAC Puglia sotto la direzione artistica di Giulio De Mitri, e come parte della mostra Monumental Elements a Palazzo
Lanfranco Aceti’s The Crocodile’s Lament continues his ambitious four-part series exploring the environmental and cultural crises of our time. Following A River of Crocodile Tears and The Home of the Crocodile and leading to The Flight of the Crocodile, this third chapter focuses on the Tiber River, transforming it into a site of memory, resistance, and renewal. In collaboration with Tevereterno, IPER Festival delle Periferie,
Lanfranco Aceti’s The Crocodile’s Home confronts the intertwined environmental and cultural crises of the 21st century through the intimate lens of the home. Premiering in the spring of 2024 with a thought-provoking installation at the Museo dell'Altro e dell'Altrove (MAAM) in Rome, the project transforms rivers—often dismissed as mundane elements of the landscape—into powerful loci of refuge, memory, and contested identity. Aceti employs the
“[…] hunc inter fluvio Tiberinus amoeno verticibus rapidis et multa flavus harena in mare prorumpit […]” Virgil. What remains of the mythology of the blonde Tiber, strictly linked as it is to the birth of Rome and over 2000 years of history, as its waters dwindle season after season? Lanfranco Aceti’s A River of Crocodile Tears dives into the heart of his four-part series
What is in a curse? And who are the accursed? The artist, Lanfranco Aceti, has created a performance titled Accursed and curated by Areti Leopolou that addresses the theme of the Thessaloniki Biennale, Imagined Homes, by bringing the privacy of the home into the public space. The accursed plebs—lower class and middle class alike—voice their angers and frustrations at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall in the form
Cloud and Molecular Aesthetics is a volume that situates a critical discourse on the molecular data–cloud and aesthetics within contemporary experiences of art and society. It reflects varied perceptions and current thinking by artists, curators, scientists, and theorists in comprehending the appropriation and colonization of the cloud. The cloud can be seen as a veiling of information, where it becomes clouded, foggy, fuzzy, obscure, or
I am currently working with Janice Glowski and Charles Csuri to the catalog Sketchbooks of Time that follows the exhibition by the same name held at Kasa Gallery in Istanbul. This image, courtesy of the artist, will be appearing in the catalog in order to showcase how things have changed and continue to change in the history of contemporary art. "I can't imagine ARTFORUM ever
