A project by Giulio Squillacciotti that investigates the representation of war and its staging.
The project stems from a stereoscopic image by the painter Giuseppe Augusto Levis (1879–1926) from a series of works dedicated to the historical depiction of the First World War. Levis constructed tableaux vivants using peasants from the local area (Piedmont), hired for the occasion. Squillacciotti works on the re-temporalisation of the work in the contemporary context, adding further layers to the staging. The book traces the project from a theoretical-narrative perspective, bringing together the contributions of the curators, ARTECO and CRIPTA747, as well as researchers Vittoria Martini and Kamil Dalkir, who question the extent to which visual constructions may influence the viewer's perception and interpretation, pre-empting and sometimes subverting the veracity of the narration.
Giulio Squillacciotti (born 1982 in Rome) is an artist and filmmaker. His work is mainly oriented on the mutation and invention of traditions by merging together fiction and historical facts. Using film, documentary, writing and scenography, Squillacciotti produces research-based investigations that revisits history, crafting new stories from subjective perspectives, speculative storytelling, religion and popular culture.
Squillacciotti studied Medieval Art History in Barcelona and Rome before obtaining a Master's degree in Visual Arts at the IUAV in Venice. He was a Fellow Resident at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht where he developed a project on the fictitious end of Europe and the loss of the shared identity of a political project. He received MEDIA Creative Europe and Screen Ireland funds to develop a fiction film co-produced by Italy, Ireland and Poland.
