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THE BLACK SWAN
THE BLACK SWAN
THE BLACK SWAN

G I A C O M O C U T T O N E

M a r s a l a , I t a l y

The work "The black swan" (acrylic on canvas 50x50) was created
in 2020 and is part of a cycle of works entitled "Suspension" that
the Sicilian artist Giacomo Cuttone created in quarantine, during
the first wave of the pandemic COVID-19.
In the work, a black swan towers over the water, occupying
almost all of the space. We humans are left with only the one
inside our homes. The black swan is a metaphor, or (to simplify)
an image that shows an unexpected and invisible event, which
has significant effects, and which an artist represents by visual

figure and geometry. The Black Swan Theory was developed by
Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain the disproportionate
importance of certain high-impact, difficult to predict and very
rare events.
The work was published on www.pinapiccolosblog.com on 25
March 2020, "Giornale di Sicilia" (newspaper) of 27 March 2020,
www.thedreamingmachine.com n. 6 of 30 April 2020 and finally
opens the video "The Song of Birds at the Time of the Pandemic",
created by the Legambiente Marsala-Petrosino club and
uploaded to YouTube channels on 14 May 2020 and on Spiragli
magazine, new series, year 1, n.1 (2020).

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