Against Mussolini: Giandante X - Head of Mussolini

Giandante X was a painter, sculptor and architect. After graduating in architecture and philosophy, he devoted himself to art and chose his name Giandante, which meant ’traveller’ and X as a symbol of the unknown. He founded an anti-fascist group in 1922 and mixed with avant-garde circles, from which he absorbed stylistic influences. Far from glorifying the Duce’s metallic and militarized body, as many of his contemporaries were doing at the time, his Head of Mussolini is a distorted, caricatural figure, wh