Gabriele Perretta / Carlo Caloro: “Non solo intenzional.mente” 426 Ironia della Sorte, 2021 / project with Mo(n)stre - produced by artQ13 440 Valentino Catricalà / Interview on the other side of the one-dimensionality Intervista nell’altro lato della monodimensionalità 468 Biography 493 Credits 497
Jari Ortwig / Flatland Flatland is the title grouping the works of Carlo Caloro from 2000 to the present day. The title refers to the book of that name by Edwin A. Abbott, where the author examines the relative nature of what is true and what is false, and thus the illusion of reality. The book acts as a model for investigating human strategies through art, looking at the topic of relative truths and the fact of living with questions that have no answers. The key topic of Caloro’s work is thus the conflict with socalled reality, which is approached with different formal media in the new images by the artist. Caloro’s theoretical-conceptual works represent complex ideas and performances, often involving social critique. In his case, the key factor is not the composition process or element, and thus the visual experience, but rather the idea. Caloro represents this, using videos, photogra