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Mondo Novo makes a reference to Giandomenico Tiepolo's painting with the same
name. This staged performance was enacted relating to the group of people in the orginal painting by the idea of individuals witnessing and in the same time acting in history. There was no charlatan staging a theatrical event in front of the crowd as in Tiepolo's painting, instead we tried to talk about future and hope, about the invisible horizon they are looking at, the horizon which cannot be seen by the viewer. The crowd looking at and being the horizon. The missing building which was to be constructed there in the
next months represented il mondo novo. The missing achitecture as a metaphor of our world in which seemingly there were no more new territories to discover or ideology to fight for and people were just re-processing their ideas and living space. The performance was remade one year later in Ljubljana this time in the exhibition space, a group of people stood together in the gallery, looking toward the empty space.
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