The chosen city is Leonia, which every day is renewed and gets rid of everything it consumed the previous day and that Federico Caputo, a Ligurian artist who decided to dedicate an installation to Calvino's Invisible Cities in the centenary year, compares to the information bombardment with viral news for a few hours that are then forgotten, represented by plexiglas spheres.
Hyperconnection, the constant use of the internet and social media, with the continuous exchange and use of data and information is not far, according to the artist, from what Calvino described, who prophesied a future of perennial consumerism, a flattening on a single model.
Leonia is no longer a single consumerist metropolis, but the entire planet, which is filled with waste, waste that is also the cascading information that is generated every day. Viral for a few hours, they are consumed, forgotten and replaced by new ones, in a cyclical succession without solution, which does not need critical thinking.
Caputo's installation, created ad hoc for the MIPS exhibition, a project of the Catholic University curated by the students of the university, consists of two carpets, modern tapestries, inserted in niches in the wall. At the bottom of a sunset sky, an application of fabric, foam rubber and thread represents a contemporary city placed on a rock floating on the horizon, from the cover of the first edition of the Invisible Cities.
To complement, the sky of the second tapestry continues in a cascade of plexiglass spheres, attractive and mirroring scraps that accumulate without order in the marble basin. At the lower end of each tapestry hang multicolored plastic fringes, metaphors also of the excess of information and the ephemeral consumption of data, the "remains of yesterday's existence" that filled our lives for a day and today are no longer needed.