Pinelli

Meters 19,45
Interview (long distance) by Luca Vitone to Francesco Arena

This is the ride height of the railing of the window on the fourth floor of police headquarters in Milan, from which rushed the anarchist railway worker Giuseppe Pinelli on the night between 15 and 16 December 1969. From here the work of a young artist from Puglia interviewed by another artist, our employees.

Francesco Arena is a thirty year old artist who lives in Cassano delle Apulian Murgia in the province of Bari Often on the road to follow his plans just may return to his homeland and family, recently enriched by the birth of Anna. Bring a fiery red beard makes him look like a barricadiero more than a century ago, and its numerous projects including private galleries and public spaces in Italy and abroad, on the barricades of Art we are adopting an honorable political issues to express his social and artistic practice. In 2009 a series of works dedicated to Giuseppe Pinelli. Through sculpture compares the user, through its physical measures, with the places that have hosted a historical event that involved a man dramatically, became a metaphor in spite of what is abuse of power. Failing to meet commitments to each other's have written to ask him why Giuseppe Pinelli becomes important for a work of art. Francesco Arena. When I was a kid we ate lunch on Sunday at the home of my maternal grandparents, brothers and sisters were my mother's with their boyfriends / e and are often the talk was about what DC was doing at that moment, what he said, and the PCI how it would be different if Moro had been alive. It was a family of Democrats, non-practicing Catholics, but was pleased that I and my brother four years younger we went to Mass at 10 o'clock in the morning, the mass of the child. Do you think my brother is now a policeman and works in Milan at the police headquarters in Via Fatebenefratelli. But I tell you this Sunday, because they were my beautiful Sunday morning as a child without a school and the Supertelegattone, you remember? That's Superclassificashow. Sometimes on a Saturday night my brother and I were left to sleep at the home of these grandparents, my grandmother was no longer there, but there were my aunts, my mother's younger sisters, who took care of us slept in what then seemed like a big sofa bed on Sunday morning my brother and I played to build houses with hard cushions of the couch and the chairs of the chairs. So on Sunday there were these things, and there were dinners and discussions on politics and often quarrels that arose due to factors other than the politics, the inner family life, but I did not understand certain things baby, after I capita. Often in the evening we spent with my mother and father's house at eight my grandfather came in for the news, she sat in a rocking chair, but was not old, now 88 years or so, and gave me some chocolates from the leading DC, because he was playing cards with friends and was placed in chocolates. Therefore, the DC were also chocolates. I did not know what was the DC. An entity. But I knew someone who worked there, a nice gentleman, always said "damn them piscietti", met him at the butcher shop to my father and I made fun good-naturedly, called Coat, I think it was a nickname. And then it happened so that my approach to political speech, chocolates, DC, Moro and the Red Brigades. A little 'without differentiation. These things I had forgotten me despite the collapsing together in memory. In high school I understood it better, DC, Moro, the Red Brigades and these names if they are joined by other, Pinelli, Fountain Square, the P2. The names have ceased to have only a sound that reminded me of Sunday as a child and have become stories with no clear and precise data.

63,81 feet of metal as ladder (Pinelli's fall), 2009 Metal zincato; cm 130x46x287 19,45 meters of metal bars have been used to build a ladder. The length of the used metal is the measure of the fall of the anarchist Pinelli from the fourth floor window of the police headquarters of via Fatebenefratelli in Milano

92 centimeters on objects (Pinelli's rail), 2009 Broom, wooden door, pants, chair, wardrobe, environmental dimensions Several items were cut to a maximum height of 92 cm. The 92 cm are the same height of the railing the window of police headquarters in Milan, where December 15, 1969 ran the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli