Laboratorio Saccardi

The Laboratorio Saccardi is made up of Vincenzo Profeta (Palermo, 1977), Marco Barone (Palermo, 1978), Giuseppe Borgia (Palermo, 1978), Toti Folisi (Sant'Agata di Militello-ME, 1979)

The work of Laboratorio Saccardi is characterized by a biting register and an irreverent attitude towards the themes it chooses. The group targets media figures and events (Cogne, 2006) in particular, providing its own sarcastic interpretation of the facts. Citations from the history of art are often used to parody or as a sort of prophetic foreshadowing (I funerali di Berlusconi, 2008). The group's painted work is echoed by other operations, such as putting Damien Hirst's book in formaldehyde, participating in a local tv station's sales, musical events, and the staging of tribal rites (Brahmacarya Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta pre lhc, 2008). The clear reference to current events is actually a pretext: Laboratorio Saccardi's artistic research is a "curious aesthetic experience," intent on relating every stimulus offered by the surrounding reality. (A.T.)