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Cleaning a Lamp For Street Lighting - 2013
3'13'' DVD Courtesy dell'artista

Inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s The Beacon, in which the poet deconstructs the styles of famous visual artist through his lyrical verses, only to conclude with a praise of their blilliance as beacons of light, Fiorentino chose one city lamppost to clean, so that it would emit a stronger light than the others. Combining the poetic nature of its inspiration with an active approach much closer to artistic strands of the Situationist movement, Cleaninig a Lamp for Street Lighting (infinite action) contemporizes the Romantic idea of artist as genius by bringing the artistic gesture to a worldly action. Instead of seeing artistis as illuminators of imagination, here the artist in physically changing quotidian place by wiping off the neglected dirt that impedes good visibility.