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 | | Gianni Mottis off-limits body of work is thus a series of specific actions, usually outside the boundaries of art circlesactions that are improbable and often off-the-cuff, funny stories verging on hoaxes, that people like to tell to one another, and which are handed on less by catalogue than by word of mouth. |
 | | This is when the artist hasnt been staging his very own burialin July 1989, after announcing his death in a local paper, Gianni Motti toured the streets of Vigo in an open coffin, borne along by the throng, in no time turning the Feast of Santa Marta into a funeral ceremony. |
 | | Sport, finance, the media, international politics, parapsychologyGianni Mottis weird actions may cover the whole spectrum of contemporary society, but on the other hand they dont offer any moral lessons, and they dont put any message across about the state and future of the world. |
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