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With violence, that attacks conven- gram. In this case too, the exchange
tions and flag beliefs, we return to the with eastcontemporary was essen-
“carnal ritual” of the body, the only tial to sharing visions and objecti-
answer to the impossible “return to ves.
earth” of the society that surrounds
us. Space Powered by Non follows a
logic not different: a brutalist totem
that creates antimatter, the opposite
of matter, its antithesis.

Antimatter, like Lefebvre’s utopia, is
not a wishful idea, but a fundamen-
tal component of reality composed of
matter and its opposite. The structure
that stands at the center of the spa-
ce refers to the hypertechnological
systems adopted for the production
of anti-matter, but he does it with a
scrap, or as the artist himselfdeclares:

“I play dirty: physics has managed
with enormous efforts to produce mi-
nimal amounts of antimatter to clash
with matter to generate energy with
a great efficiency, the annihilation
of matter with antimatter produces
about 70 times the energy produced
by nuclear fusion of hydrogen to he-
lium and four billion times the ener-
gy produced by the combustion of oil,
but to produce a gram costs 25 billion
dollars. BC Energy company produced
one kilo, enough to power the entire
block for the duration of the show. It’s
true, it will” .
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Stefano Non produces new energy
for a neighborhood, Isola, a symbol of
Milanese creativity, often presented 3 Email sent by the artist to the
through hypster stereotypes and ge- curator in date 16/12/2020
neralizations.

The antithesis of this urban represen-
tation is Spazio Gamma:a place to pro-
duce energy by rethinking the basis of
the dialogue around the contempo-
rary: no more event, but progressive
human construction of collaboration
of the parties and people involved in
each presentation, exhibition, pro-

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