Word: fishmarket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reed hut and set a tuna to smoke on a rack outside it. This piece of mock primitivism was intended to say something about survival, in homage to the fishermen of the Po delta; but since the tuna was not caught by the artist but bought in the Venice fishmarket, the project looked vicarious, like Marie Antoinette playing shepherdess. What it had to do with art was anyone's guess. But then, art is a matter of context. It is what you find in a Biennale...