The Treccani Sottolio is the latest installation by Benedetto Marcucci. It can be currently seen at the Roman MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome) and from June, at the Italian Institute of Culture in New York.
54 volumes of the most famous Italian Encyclopedia have been put in oil in cans, sealed with wax and exposed to the public to underline the critical phase of encyclopedic knowledge and, at the same time, to express the need of preserving it. Encyclopedias are a sort of relic in the Wikipedia era, but, as a matter of fact, they should not be forgotten on a library shelf…
54 volumes of the most famous Italian Encyclopedia have been put in oil in cans, sealed with wax and exposed to the public to underline the critical phase of encyclopedic knowledge and, at the same time, to express the need of preserving it. Encyclopedias are a sort of relic in the Wikipedia era, but, as a matter of fact, they should not be forgotten on a library shelf…
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