Life is a burning tire

by Bart Achterkamp

For his first solo project in the Netherlands the Italian visual artist Nero/Alessandro Neretti (Faenza, 1980) has developed 20 new works especially for museum Beelden aan Zee. He found inspiration within renowned masterpieces from the Dutch Golden Age. With a nod to Vermeer and Frans Hals, he presents an image of the slow decline into the here and now. Nero conducts a personal examination of the dynamics in society, politics and economy, which he approaches with a healthy dose of irony and a critical viewpoint. In the last ten years Nero has exclusively created site-specific work, with the...