This is an image inspired by demonstrations and riots in the streets of Athens. I got fascinated by a photo of a young boy (the state and media call them "koukouloforous" trying to undervalue their political reaction) throwing a road cone to the cops, with big fires around him.
This is an expressionistic version of this photo with the cone almost ready to leave the borders of the painting.
the publications of colleagues, Nov. 2021
Summer of 1969, Italy. A year after May '68, FIAT workers began a dynamic and unmediated strike against their powerful boss. Their struggle marked the beginning of a decade of workers' and students' mobilizations and the rise of the Autonomy movement. It was characterized by many as the last invasion of the working class into the sky. Last ... let's hope until the next one ...
