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Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture

MARCO TIRELLI is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in Rome, Italy.

By Marco Tirelli

The history of art records a long tradition in which man tried to cancel his own individuality to focus on the work of art being made.

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