Luca Staccioli

Checkout series reformulates the form of shopping carts. The iper-present and iper-fast icon of online purchases become a fetish, as fetishes are goods it contains. It appears both as votive ruin and precious matter. The size remind to a toy, by which childhood trains to adulthood, therefore to compulsive purchases, gym of productivity.

« [...] Messy and jaunty, the glazed ceramic series Checkout investigates this same obsessive motif. Like tired quadrupeds pointing their paws into the ground, these colourful sculptures of different sizes occupy the exhibition space. The larger ones recall Marino Marini’s anti-heroes who, having lost their steed, can no longer stand as equestrian monuments. The smaller ones refer to the miniaturisations typical of childhood souvenirs and toys, stereotypes turned into icons. [...]. » Exerpt from Wake-ip call. Di un presente irreale, per un futuro disincantato, by Irene Sofia Comi