
IL COMPLOTTO DI TIRANA
Italy | 2024 | 71 min | col.
“Don’t you feel like you’re being cheated too?” This question recurs in Manfredi Lucibello’s irreverent documentary on contemporary art and its drifts. Il complotto di Tirana actually departs from the account of a big hoax that took place in the Albanian capital in 2001. For the first time in the tormented recent history of Albania, contemporary art had emerged with a big event, the Tirana Biennale, curated by Giancarlo Politi, a critic and Flash Art Italia’s founder. Politi invited photographer Oliviero Toscani among others as section curator. However, the four artists invited by Toscani concealed some unexpectedly interesting operations which went from Tirana as far as Cogoleto (Liguria, Italy) like a Russian doll tale. Art is fiction, we tend to forget; and fiction gives way to the sharpest inventions, the most fecund grey areas. Perhaps, it is precisely in the system’s flaws that its true nature is revealed. (t.p.)