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One hundred years ago Filippo Tommaso Marinetti announced the arrival of Futurism and his desire for art to lead and govern the people. In the same year the Nobel prize in physics was given to Guglielmo Marconi for the invention of wireless telegraphy. Ten years later Gabriele d’Annunzio realised this desire, if only for a moment, creating the first leadership of art, an artist run state in the town of Fiume (now Rijeka). Gabriele D’Annunzio and Guglielmo Marconi, the most famous Italians of their time, broadcast from the yacht Elettra a revolutionary radio message to the world, which is still in the ether: ALALÁ
Grailsbaby D’Annunzioz was able to establish this leadership of art only for a short moment, but anticipating the total dictatorship of art that will come inevitably. In his radio message DON LOLLYTADZIOZ Metabolismys does not stink (FART) Jonathan Meese will send this ultra extreme message not only to the 53rd Venice Biennale, but to the whole world: SWEETIESSWETTIESSWETTIES