Nugae
Artist book

Nugae is an artist book that combines works from my instrallation NUGAE with personal stories, fictions and myths.
Nugae is a term by Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC), a latin poet of the Republican period. He was a spoiled rich Hipster Kid coming from a leading equestrian family of Verona. 

He lived a lazy sumptuous life in the luxury of inherited money, enjoying all kinds of men, women and drugs. He was not a zoon politicon at all, following the philosophy of Epicurus.
The purpose of philosophy (and life) to Catullus was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by ataraxia — peace and freedom from fear — and aponia — the absence of pain — and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. So Catullus happily doped around in his luxury villa, hanging out with his hipster entourage. Cicero hatefully called them the NEOTEROI – the new poets. Indeed they did some new stuff. Catullus for his part hated the big epics and called his little poems for NUGAE.

Nugae are small honed, often funny poems on both mythological events and private interests and stories. Like, Láthe biósas: “Live hidden”/”Live secretely.” Back to privacy, I’d say.