Fullo,

Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenaghen

, 2023

Through wefts of sentimental and arbitrary narratives Alfredo Aceto pursues an intimate fresco where anecdotes and geographies, installations and fetishist photographs meet. In this game where desire instructs the form, investigation, exploration and introspection are mixed to lead to crossed portraits where ghosts and fantasies intertwine.

What has excited the gaze and imagination of Alfredo Aceto to come and observe on tiptoe -behind the railing- the successive houses of the industrial magnate Sergio Marchionne. One in particular caught his attention, that of Blonay in the Vaud hinterland (Switzerland). The house, like the dress, from the religious to the peasants, situates a position, engages a genre, completes an affection. Often, it also conceals, partitions, and organizes land and society. This affluent domain observed in hollow, it is that of the magnate who saved the Fiat group from bankruptcy at the cost of damaged lives and the dismissal of thousands of men. Through it, we perceive a character with a frank masculinity, nourished by the reading of the so-called Chicago Boys economists. The man in the sweater was loved and feared depending on whether he was in the village, the office, or the factory. One can imagine a dark, authoritarian, and unambiguous figure behind a casual demeanor. Alfredo Aceto, placed behind the gate, observes like a voyeur the relics of the place that this ghostly figure occupied. With the help of a drone, he films the remains of a bygone era, that of a roaring industry where we were toasting each other in the exchange rooms, the restaurants with dark wooden walls in which the contracts of the world were signed.

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Pierre-Alexandre Mateos / Charles Teyssou