D.X XY is a dialogue on painting between two subjects, X and Y, presented in the first file, while in the second file provided by the artist the dialogue becomes a performance, enacted by two actors who perform a text written by the artist himself.
The project thus consists of a dialogue between two figures who, somewhat in the vein of Didi and Gogo – the protagonists of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett – develop a surreal, sarcastic, and often sensual discourse. The two interlocutors challenge each other in a nonsensical exchange in which the act of painting becomes the central generative force behind a series of references to painterly action, and often to the impossibility of bringing that action to completion.
The performance revolves around a movable structure designed to display Baruzzi’s drawings, which are continuously replaced by the two performers.
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