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An infinite object winks in the darkness: a thin, unstable column that rises from the ground and reaches, somewhat askew, who knows where. Tips are gratuities—the ones at the bar or those that all grandchildren have received from their grandmothers or grandfathers. La mancetta, as my grandfather used to call it, with a diminutive that suggested both the tenderness of the gesture and the meager amount of money he would give, was always made up of loose change—there were even ten-lira coins with little ears of wheat—that seemed made to be stacked one on top of the other, in small, wobbly vertical rows. This image of piled coins… perhaps the fault of some dormant memory of comic strips. Tips is Tosi’s column of coins: a patinated bronze structure, a casting that reproduces a resin matrix, preserving all its imperfections. Thus, thanks to these roughnesses, the discourses that could be associated with it—linked to money, capitalism, and destruction—obviously and especially environmental,…
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An infinite object winks in the darkness: a thin, unstable column that rises from the ground and reaches, somewhat askew, who knows where. Tips are gratuities—the ones at the bar or those that all grandchildren have received from their grandmothers or grandfathers. La mancetta, as my grandfather used to call it, with a diminutive that suggested both the tenderness of the gesture and the meager amount of money he would give, was always made up of loose change—there were even ten-lira coins with little ears of wheat—that seemed made to be stacked one on top of the other, in small, wobbly vertical rows. This image of piled coins… perhaps the fault of some dormant memory of comic strips. Tips is Tosi’s column of coins: a patinated bronze structure, a casting that reproduces a resin matrix, preserving all its imperfections. Thus, thanks to these roughnesses, the discourses that could be associated with it—linked to money, capitalism, and destruction—obviously and especially environmental,…
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