Double show by Friedrich Andreoni and Roberto Casti

curated by Caterina Angelucci and Andrea Elia Zanini

Casa degli Artisti, Milan

January 23 – February 12, 2025

Through sound installations, performances and drawings, the artists explore the need to reach a material or immaterial place that allows one to abstract from the void and emptiness of life, a refuge from the stress and pressures imposed by the social context of the metropolis.

PH: Tiziano Ercoli and Riccardo Giancola

Aleph (Milan-Berlin-Lisbon-Milan)

Typewriter, paper, table, chair

2023 – on going

The performative installation Aleph (Milan-Berlin-Lisbon-Milan) includes a typewriter that the audience can use to contribute to a list of questions—started during the Berlin exhibition and continued during the Hangar artist residency in Lisbon—that reflect on one’s position in the world and in their historical time.

This ever-expanding text/work is a spatio-temporal awareness device, an attempt at impossible empathy that shifts attention from the individual to the collective, presuming a reversal of one’s existential condition linked to the personal sphere.

A performance/reading of the text happened during the opening. thanks to the participation of Ilaria Brianti, Francesca Brugola, Marta Chinellato e Piermario De Angelis.

Aleph (Lebanon)

In collaboration with Maya Aghniadis

Steel tubes, Led lamps, speakers, cables, amplifier, looped sound (12’26”)

2025

Roberto Casti continues his exploration of marginal connections linking the inside and the outside by advancing the Aleph series (2023 – ongoing), initiated during the first chapter of Fernweh in Berlin. To create these works, the artist collected recordings, his own or those belonging to friends, from cities far apart, which he then modified and slowed down to create ambient soundscapes where all spatial and temporal data is obscured. The tracks are usually played through devices the artist defines as “non-objects,” apparatuses occupying the margins of any domestic or commercial environment, such as junction boxes, drainage pipes, water tubes, and ventilation ducts. Using these devices as unusual resonators, the artist highlights what inhabits the edges of everyday spaces, reinterpreting the connections linking indoor living spaces to the outdoors, the micro to the macro, the individual to the planet.

At Casa degli Artisti, Roberto Casti presented a new version of Aleph in collaboration with Maya Aghniadis, a Lebanese musician living in Athens. The work serves as a resonating box for a composition created by slowing down recordings made in Lebanon.