Brescia, Eva and Franco Mattes blitz on road signs Who are the two who, armed with ladders, hard hats and orange overalls, working dawn to replace a dozen road signs on the streets of Brescia? This is a young artist couple from Brescia, now living in New York, about an unpronounceable name - 01001011101011 01. org, which stands for the letter k in binary code - has built a real mythology, fed fake identity, messages delivered to a network, shares the limits of legality and various pseudonyms: so far they have changed at least 15. The last, erupted in 2005, Eva and Franco Mattes. An exhibition in their town, I'm not revealing the title here, and a book published by Charta take stock on the last ten years of work. Their site's debut is a success: it is a clone of the official Vatican, but dotted with misspellings, snippets of 883 songs and phrases unorthodox. For a year and two days Vaticano.org is visited by 200 thousand faithful. And in 2003, in Vienna, a blitz in the historic Karlsplatz (Christian campanini)
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