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Polis & Polis

When years ago Christo came to Milan and wrapped up Leonardo’s statue standing opposite Teatro alla Scala, there were lots of complaints, also  from people who didn’t even know who the artist was. (Contemporary art has, among its features, the power of bringing stupid people into the open). Since we all often look but don’t watch, we understand but don’t rationalize, we feel deprived if something is concealed from our attention (even if later we can’t even remember what it was). Incidentally Christo wanted exactly to underline this aspect through his challenge. And yet nothing has changed: today all our cities seem alike and only when a shop changes its running or a building is renovated we realize that a city is a continuously throbbing place, where changes aren’t an exception but a rule. Photographers pay great attention to every aspect of reality and it is thanks to them that we can watch more carefully the world around us and the places we live in.

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