Hube’s is a photographic story set in a transfigured, anti-metaphysical Rome, far from both the tourist-gentrified center and the idealized suburbs, but moving in a more anthropological than geographical periphery, that of those who have never learned the rules of the game, of those who have not transformed youthful rebelliousness into a permanent job, of those who have not given in to the blackmail of time, and have not made their art a diversion for the bored bourgeoisie or another form of moralism. An icon in the world of bombing, Hube has become a fragment of urban language, on a par with “Forza Roma” or “God is there”, an anonymous and identifying sign at the same time, repeated wildly, obsessively, until it invades the entire landscape – overpasses, ring roads, buildings, shelters, trams, buses, bicycles and dumpsters. Non ho mai imparare is the visual manifesto of this twenty-year street story, with its impossible protagonists, the last remnants of those years, the Nineties, where writing your name on the wall was still a political act, of reappropriation of metropolitan space, of recognition, and which today renews its challenge to those who, instead, have decided to learn. But learning to live in the world, if the world is still a horrible place, isn't that the worst of sentences?
Marco "Hube" Ubertini, "Non ho mai imparato"
Softcover, 30x22 cm, 96 pages | Drago Publisher
ISBN 9788898565627
Color separation by Kittesencula Ltd.
