Antonello Tolve from Rionero in Vulture (PZ)

With which objects and spaces of your daily life are you interacting the most?
As for the objects, paradoxically I am interacting particularly with the immaterial matter which is memory. This is because the spaces in which I am spending the long quarantine have to do with my childhood, with the sweetness of heterotopia, of the muffled counterspace that I share with my son, with my family.

We are dealing with a new time and space. What are you discovering or rediscovering about yourself?
This new vision to which we are all led to decelerate, decrease e, let's hope, clear the pandemic flow soon, represents, I think, the good opportunity to measure oneself again with one's own physiological temporospatiality, far from the economic circuits which inevitably lead to a speed other than the natural one. Personally, I have massively returned to reading the great classics of the twentieth century, and I must say that I reread it with great pleasure too Jerusalem liberated of Tasso. From a more intimate angle I'm trying to rediscover fantasy, the dear imagine Leopardian which is perhaps a psychological antidote, an internal maneuver, a derailment of reason, a shift towards that freedom of escape from the four walls of the home that everyone can aspire to.

What you're missing? Your personal experience ofabsence and of lack.
Being a metropolitan animal, what I feel is most distant, almost like a Lacanian desire to desire desired things, it's the buzz of the crowd swirling around me, the human liveliness of the city, waiting at a tram stop, the pleasant noise of people, the daily journey by train or plane, the company of artists and friends to share with de visu daily experiences. However, the moment we live in, fortunately conditioned by digital interactivity and virtuality (imagine what it could be like, for example, a world without electricity) makes this period less bitter, more bearable and acceptable.

Antonello Twelve, holder of Pedagogy and Art Teaching at the Albertina Academy in Turin, he is Director of the Roman branch of the Filiberto and Bianca Menna Foundation and since 2014 he is curator of Gaba.Mc – Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata, where he teaches Aesthetics of Light on assignment. Among his publications: Education and catastrophe. Art pedagogy and teaching in the era of instrumental illiteracy (Kappabit, 2019); Me, myself and I. Art and social window dressing or the magical world of the selfie (Castelvecchi, 2019); Atmosphere. Climate attitudes in today's art (Mimesis, 2019).