Il Sogno di Francesco Cirio

2013
Porta Palazzo, Turin
“The dream of Francesco Cirio”

A project carried out within the residency programme viadellafucina-2013 of KaninchenHaus Torino.

Words drawn at random from “La Cooperazione in Agricoltura?” (“Cooperation in Agriculture?”) and “Relazione intorno alle colonie penali agricole della Sardegna” (“Report on the agricultural penal colonies of Sardinia”), texts written at the end of the nineteenth century by Francesco Cirio, a pioneer of canned food, were laser-engraved on San Marzano tomatoes. Destined to vanish in a jar of tomato sauce, or to become illegible as the fruit rots.

A project by Roberto dell’Orco (ilmotorediricerca) and Alessandra Giannandrea.
Curated by Bruno Barsanti.
With the collaboration of: Ragazzi di via Agliè, Marta Scanu, Allan Bay, Gelateria Popolare, Pier Luigi Bassignana.
A project carried out within the residency programme viadellafucina-2013 of KaninchenHaus Torino.