Claudio Parrini began his art career as a painter in the mid 1980s, when painting was celebrating its own mourning process with transavanguard rites. He then encountered the “subversive" problems of the cyberpunk movement, dealing with issues of communication and social norms, which triggered his current thinking on deconstructing the conventions of the artist’s role and the “places” where art is able to demonstrate its function (and its defining characteristics). In his work, he therefore began to reflect on the internal laws of the art system (and of its methods of legitimization), operating on the “outer edges” of its institutions with collective actions, hypertexts, working with social action groupings such as StranoNetwork, Quinta Parete, XS2WEB. At the same time, however, he remained involved with ...More
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