The Volcano Extravaganza in Stromboli is where avant-garde performance met mysticism and 17th-century Versailles.
defies all categorization in the age of the ever-so-dull global art fair. Every summer in July, the London-based Fiorucci Art Trust, the brainchild of Italian collector and philanthropist extraordinaire Nicoletta Fiorucci, heiress to the prosciutto empire of the same name, invites a handful of international artists to reflect on their practice with a penchant for the immaterial, against the backdrop of lava eruptions and black sand beaches.
But it was a rocky start this year on the island. The oversubscribed opening night, which took inspiration from the lavish 1661 banquet hosted by Superintendent of Finances Nicolas Fouquet in honor of Louis XIV, left many with a bad taste in the mouth. Upon arrival at Fiorucci’s sumptuous villa overlooking the Tyrrhenian sea, some 70 art peeps were greeted by three body-painted, screeching demons .
. Also on the menu this year was the first international screening of Catalan director Albert Serra’s Cannes prize-winning film, set in a cruising area in decadent 18th-century France. We also regaled in his cleverly executed, multi performance work across the garden of yet-another Strombolian villa, reenacting the last breath of philosophers from various epochs .
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