Andrea Tonellotto
Artphilein Box nr. 1 - Good Bye Berlin
Artphilein Editions, Lugano — 2023
The title of the project, Good Bye Berlin, deliberately inspired by the title of Wolfgang Becker’s wonderful film Good Bye Lenin, poses an interesting analysis of those days of transition in 1989: days that altered the political fortunes of the whole of Europe and probably the world. In *Good Bye Berlin*, just like in Becker’s film, images and icons of West and East Germany merge, showing a Berlin that no longer exists (or perhaps never did).
To tell his own story of Berlin, Andrea Tonellotto wanted to use a traditional medium, the Polaroid, reinterpreting and updating its modus operandi, because never more than now, when everything has to be shared immediately on social media, has instant photography come first and gone even further, giving a concrete and lasting dimension to the ‘everything all at once’ approach of our time, in which things are so often drowned out and lost in the space of a few comments below a post. Polaroids, not being editable in the post-production stage, paradoxically certify a Berlin that perhaps no one will ever find.
Cardboard case with one A2 poster and one leporello
