This item can be purchased with the Youth Culture Card, Merit Card and/or Teacher Card when sold and shipped by Amazon: Products from third-party sellers on the Marketplace are excluded. The Bonus is strictly personal and can only be used by its owner. Terms and conditions My heart is empty like a mirror is the story of the project by Gian Maria Tosatti, an artist whose research has always been rooted in the territory, in which he intervenes with site-specific environmental installations. In 2017, Tosatti began an incessant pilgrimage in search of the remains of democracy, utopia, even humanity itself, which led him to stop in Catania, Riga, Cape Town, Odessa, Istanbul. In each city a work was born, treated as an episode of an ideal visual novel, which the artist returns in this book in the form of a diary in which he collects visions, suggestions, prophecies and realities, and highlights his creative process . The volume is accompanied by a large iconographic apparatus and critical essays by Stefano Chiodi, Ludovico Pratesi, Yulia Kleiman, Benedetta Carpi de Resmini, Azu Nwagbogu, Sara de Beer, Alessandra Troncone, Francesca Guerisoli and Stefano Raimondi which retrace each stage of the cycle The my heart is empty as a mirror; created thanks to the support of the Italian Council, a program for the promotion of Italian contemporary art in the world of the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. Gian Maria Tosatti (Rome, 1980) is an Italian visual artist. His projects are long-term investigations on issues related to the concept of identity, both on a political and spiritual level. His work mainly consists of large site-specific installations conceived for entire buildings or urban areas. His practice often involves the communities connected to the places where the works take shape. In 2015 the international magazine ArtReview included him in the list of the 30 most interesting artists of his generation (Future Greats). Tosatti is also a journalist and writer. He is a columnist for Corriere della Sera and for the Opera Viva magazine. He writes essays on art and politics. He has also exhibited at the Hessel Museum of CCS BARD (New York - 2014), MADRE museum, (Naples - 2016), the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York - 2011), the National Gallery (Rome - 2017), the Petah Tikva Museum of Art (Petah Tikva - 2017), the Archaeological Museum of Salerno (Salerno - 2014) American Academy in Rome (Rome – 2013), Villa Croce Museum (Genoa – 2012), Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome - 2008), Chelsea Art Museum (New York - 2009), BJCEM (2014)