PROGETTO IN SVILUPPO
THE REPUBLIC OF GOSSIPAND THE “NEW ITALIAN MIRACLE”,SEEN FROM THE MINDILL OF ONE OF THE PROTAGONISTSOF THE VACUUM THAT HAS FUELEDTHE CHRONICLES OF ATWO DECADES LIVEDON THE BRINK OF RIDICULE
The history of Italy from 1994 to 2014, from the descent into the field to the end of Berlusconism “photographed” from a lateral point of view: that of custom and change, from below, in consumer society. The Italy of those two decades between the fascination with image and the abyss of emptiness, between the taste for scandal and the triumph of gossip, between appearing better than one is and the impossibility of confronting oneself.It is a world in which many people wallow. Among them is Fabrizio Corona, the protagonist of a universe that imposes its rules and becomes the antechamber to success. It is success that lasts the space of a morning, founded on nothing and ready to collapse at the first breath of wind. The years of an absurd race to be the protagonist of a story probably without narrative