Performance 80’

Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice

ph Ela Bialkowska, OKNOstudio

“Un altro te” is an intimately necessary performance, which is presented in front of a silent audience.

The artist wears ordinary, everyday clothes. In the center of the exhibition space he listens to music from his ipod. He sings all the songs that he is listening to. The audience will only be able to hear the compilation through the artist's singing, while the music and the original version is limited to the earphones of his ipod.

His mp3 player's compilation is a collection of almost all Italian pop songs; music icons that have marked the history not only of Italian music but the social history of the country, that of the second half of the 20th century and the early 2000s up to the present day: all the selected songs have as their subject the end of a love story.

The title "Un altro te" is in fact a male transposition of "Un'altra te", a famous hit by Eros Ramazzotti from 1993. Almost all of the selected songs were originally sung by female artists: in the performance, pronouns will be meticulously changed into their male version.

The performance also features a song in German, the mother tongue of the former artist's partner, and some songs in English, the language with which the artist communicates (goes) with his former partner.

The performer cannot sing but is, in fact, immensely out of tune. The result is a scene tragic, emphasizing the pain of the breakup of the relationship, bringing into an audience a ritual (that of humming romantic songs) usually private and strictly intimate.