Antonio La Grotta, Paradise Discotheque book Vol. 1 2015 - 2021

Paradise Discotheque book Vol. 1 2015 - 2021

Antonio La Grotta

Publisher
Self Published
Year
2021
Specifications
Softcover with flap
Size: 20x25cm
164 pages
Edition: 100
Text. English/Italian

Discotheques, the symbol of 80s and 90s hedonism, were fake marble temples adorned with Greek statues made of gypsum, futuristic spaces of gigantic size, large enough to contain the dreams of success, money, fun of thousands people. And then the dreams are gone, people disappeared and nightclubs became abandoned wreck, cement whaleslaid on large empty squares, places inhabited by echo and melancholy. The grass is growing in the crack, the Discobolus is hiding under a porch, priggish Venus lurks behind the bars. The Paradise Discotheque, contemporary monuments of our civilization, are waiting to be burned to the ground, and in this expectation made of vacuum, only the memory of a former glory remains.

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