Marco Poloni — Codename : Osvaldo — CCS — Centre culturel suisse — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: April 22 → July 10, 2016

The work of Marco Poloni spans cinema, photography, text and installation. In 2014 the artist established an agency to bring together fifteen years of work, “The Analogue Island Bureau.” The agency seeks to build an index of plots, problems and tropes of the Mediterranean Sea. This archive documents and reformulates a number of geopolitical scripts and narratives of this area, focusing on relations between social invisibility and power, subjectivity and ideology.

Poloni’s most recent work, Codename: Osvaldo comprises a number of case studies which are currently juxtaposed at the Swiss Cultural Centre of Paris to form a large-scale constellation.

Codename: Osvaldo fans out from a biographical thread, that of the charismatic and complex figure of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. Italian millionaire and Guevarist revolutionary, Feltrinelli founded the eponymous publishing house in Milan in 1954 and was active in the European anti-imperialist movements of the 60s and 70s under the battle name of compañero Osvaldo. In his work, Poloni approaches Feltrinelli as a shadow line of a rhizomatic narrative about repressed chapters of the construction of Italian national identity.