Notte Bianca - Pigneto, Rome, Italy
One night
Among the pioneers of the Net Art movement, Eva and Franco Mattes are renowned for their masterful subversion of the media, constantly shifting between real and virtual space. After snagging the website Vaticano.org (1998) they launched a Jubilee dedicated to the free spirit, diverting worshippers to rather more unorthodox views. They convinced the art world of the existence of a fictitious artist, who was even featured in the Venice Biennale (Darko Maver, 1999), then, when they themselves were invited to...
