{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"5029"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"Copyright for this work is under review."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Mario del Curto"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"2007"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2015     6    2"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2015.6.2"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"Italy"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Color photograph on photographic paper"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Volterra"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/20375/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"20375"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Engravings by Nannetti on the Wall of the Decommissioned Psychiatric Hospital in Volterra"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"2261","content":"Mario Del Curto"}},"geographyCity":{"value":"Volterra"},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Photographs"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":"I am an Astronautic Mining Engineer in the mental system, and also a Colonel of the Astral and terrestrial mining Astronautic. This is my mining key: 1600, 1700, 1800, 1900. Copper. Red, yellow. Light and sound have the same length of course. The Earth stands still, and the stars circulate over a part of the Earth. I don\u2019t have anything else to say but goodbye. Yours, N.O.F.4. \u2014Fernando Oreste NannettiRight after Fernando Oreste Nannetti (1927, Rome, Italy\u20131994, Volterra, Italy) was born, his father left home. When he was seven years old, his mother abandoned him in a charitable institution. Three years later, Nannetti was transferred to a psychiatric facility for minors, where he lived for five years. At age twenty-seven he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and four years later he was sent to the psychiatric hospital in Volterra, Italy, where he remained for fourteen years. Nobody ever visited him or replied to his postcards.There, every day for nine years (1959\u20131961 and 1968\u20131973), Nannetti engraved several walls of the inner courtyard of the establishment, covering the surface for over two hundred feet. This monumental book of stone, now gone, was decrypted by Pier Nello Manoni\u2014thanks to the detailed photographs he took in 1979\u2014and by Aulo Guidi and Aldo Trafeli. The latter was a hospital attendant who established contact with Nannetti. Trafeli explained that Nannetti \u201cwas always alone. He didn\u2019t fit in with life in the hospital here. He wrote on the wall with the buckle of a vest, which used to be on the patients\u2019 uniforms.\u201d Nannetti first outlined a page on the wall and then filled up this zone with texts and drawings. This creation, wrote Antonio Tabucchi, tells of \u201cNannetti\u2019s odyssey and his journey to Ithaca. He talks about his imaginary family, whose people are all \u2018tall,\u2019 \u2018tanned,\u2019 with a \u2018Y-shape nose.\u2019 The text also alludes to Genesis, with a cosmography, a fantastic description of the sky, stars, and planets. Then come the horrors of war, mysterious deaths, and pain caused by loss. Persuaded to be connected to supernatural presences, Nannetti poetically restores his exchanges with the interstellar universe.\u201d He claims to be guided by a \u201cCatotique Magnetic Antenna,\u201d and depends on a telepathic system.Nannetti engaged in a relationship with other-worldliness rather than speaking with those in his immediate surroundings. He invented an exclusive dialogue, encrypted and almost secret. Manoni suggested that \u201cwhile he laboriously engraved, Nannetti reflected on himself. One feels the contradiction of someone who clings to an obstacle difficult to overcome\u2014the wall that acts as a barrier, that separates, that protects, and the wall that helps to move beyond, to escape.\u201d On one of these sections, Nannetti wrote: \u201cAll the world is mine ◆ Nannettolicus ◆ saint with ◆ Photoelectric ◆ cell.\u201d And also: \u201cAs ◆ a ◆ Free ◆ Butterfly ◆ I am ◆ Everything ◆ the ◆ World ◆ is mine and ◆ I made ◆ everyone ◆ Dream.\u201dAdapted from Valérie Rousseau, \u201cFernando Oreste Nannetti\u201d in Valérie Rousseau (ed.), When the Curtain Never Comes Down: Performance Art and the Alter Ego (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2015).\u2003Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"2007"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":"I am an Astronautic Mining Engineer in the mental system, and also a Colonel of the Astral and terrestrial mining Astronautic. This is my mining key: 1600, 1700, 1800, 1900. Copper. Red, yellow. Light and sound have the same length of course. The Earth stands still, and the stars circulate over a part of the Earth. I don\u2019t have anything else to say but goodbye. Yours, N.O.F.4. \u2014Fernando Oreste NannettiRight after Fernando Oreste Nannetti (1927, Rome, Italy\u20131994, Volterra, Italy) was born, his father left home. When he was seven years old, his mother abandoned him in a charitable institution. Three years later, Nannetti was transferred to a psychiatric facility for minors, where he lived for five years. At age twenty-seven he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and four years later he was sent to the psychiatric hospital in Volterra, Italy, where he remained for fourteen years. Nobody ever visited him or replied to his postcards.There, every day for nine years (1959\u20131961 and 1968\u20131973), Nannetti engraved several walls of the inner courtyard of the establishment, covering the surface for over two hundred feet. This monumental book of stone, now gone, was decrypted by Pier Nello Manoni\u2014thanks to the detailed photographs he took in 1979\u2014and by Aulo Guidi and Aldo Trafeli. The latter was a hospital attendant who established contact with Nannetti. Trafeli explained that Nannetti \u201cwas always alone. He didn\u2019t fit in with life in the hospital here. He wrote on the wall with the buckle of a vest, which used to be on the patients\u2019 uniforms.\u201d Nannetti first outlined a page on the wall and then filled up this zone with texts and drawings. This creation, wrote Antonio Tabucchi, tells of \u201cNannetti\u2019s odyssey and his journey to Ithaca. He talks about his imaginary family, whose people are all \u2018tall,\u2019 \u2018tanned,\u2019 with a \u2018Y-shape nose.\u2019 The text also alludes to Genesis, with a cosmography, a fantastic description of the sky, stars, and planets. Then come the horrors of war, mysterious deaths, and pain caused by loss. Persuaded to be connected to supernatural presences, Nannetti poetically restores his exchanges with the interstellar universe.\u201d He claims to be guided by a \u201cCatotique Magnetic Antenna,\u201d and depends on a telepathic system.Nannetti engaged in a relationship with other-worldliness rather than speaking with those in his immediate surroundings. He invented an exclusive dialogue, encrypted and almost secret. Manoni suggested that \u201cwhile he laboriously engraved, Nannetti reflected on himself. One feels the contradiction of someone who clings to an obstacle difficult to overcome\u2014the wall that acts as a barrier, that separates, that protects, and the wall that helps to move beyond, to escape.\u201d On one of these sections, Nannetti wrote: \u201cAll the world is mine ◆ Nannettolicus ◆ saint with ◆ Photoelectric ◆ cell.\u201d And also: \u201cAs ◆ a ◆ Free ◆ Butterfly ◆ I am ◆ Everything ◆ the ◆ World ◆ is mine and ◆ I made ◆ everyone ◆ Dream.\u201dAdapted from Valérie Rousseau, \u201cFernando Oreste Nannetti\u201d in Valérie Rousseau (ed.), When the Curtain Never Comes Down: Performance Art and the Alter Ego (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2015).\u2003Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Photographs"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Volterra"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"2007"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"155427"},"geographyState":{"value":""},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Sheet: 32 x 48 \" (81.3 x 121.9 cm)Frame: 55 5/8 x 40 1/2 x 1 1/2 \" (141.3 x 102.9 x 3.8 cm)"}}]}