Golia is one of the most interesting contemporary young artists. He hit art columns thanks to his audacious undertakings, balancing himself on a thin line between super-manhood and self-irony, feeding some fabulous chansons de geste. Piero G. who stops a girl on the streets and convinces her to tattoo his framed portrait stating Piero My Idol on her back. Piero G. pictured together with a blonde bombshell in front of luxury hotels and Californian swimming-pools, driving his Ferrari, the new prince of Beverly Hills. Piero G. camping on a Polaroid titled Me and J. Koons. Piero G. who accepts the invitation for the biennial of Tirana, underlining that he will reach the port of Durazzo with a paddle boat, crossing the Otranto channel the reverse way as the escape routes of Albanian illegal immigrants. Piero G. that climbs up a seven meters high palm tree, threatening to come down only when someone purchases one of his art works.
Myths of contemporary art sprout and grow at breathtaking speed, are overmeasure to you, bigger than life. Works and names dominate the scene, at times risking to undergo a metamorphosis becoming puppies and toys of too colossal dimensions for whom is dedicated to their exposure, photographing, commenting, publishing or purchase.
Golia not only plays the game, but places a higher bid in proposing this book which could be defined as a real manual of theoretic. A short story and - simultaneously - a manual of instructions, with all the information and the necessary processes needed to realize his works.
All that, could lead us to continue his path on our own, or to admit our unsuitability to do so. This is how, Golia tries to short-circuit the whole art system or, better said, to rewire the whole system in order to bound art within a closed circuit between your brain and your heart.


Title:
the book by Piero Golia

Editor:
Piero Golia, Gea Politi

Texts:
D. Hunt, P. Ellis, P. Golia ,G. Politi, W. G. Thiel
and others

Pages:
136

Format:
24x27 cm

Illustrations:
48 col.,7 b/w

Published:
2002

ISBN:
88-8273-037-9