103 group 0 – invisibility by necessity To protect one's own life and that of others; for an ethic of the work they carry out; to exercise their clandestine art; so they don’t end up in jail. We will call them the constraints. sample 0A (degree of legality: heroic) – cases: Captain Ultimo (arrest of Totò Riina, 1993) sample 0B (degree of legality: in the norm) – cases: Michelin Guide inspectors (since 1889), Satoshi Nakamoto (father of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, 2008) sample 0C (degree of legality: borderline) – cases: Luther Blissett (international collective of situationist artists and agitators, responsible for actions such as, among the latest, the mockery at the expense of Ryanair, announcing the will to embark on their planes refugees without residency permit, 2015), Blu (street artist, Backjump Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, 2007) sample 0D (degree of legality: Robin Hood) – cases: Anonymous (international collective of hacktivists, responsible since 2006 for actions such as the repeated attacks on virtual identities of Ku Klux Klan members, on the website of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on websites related to Islamic terrorism), WikiLeaks (collective of activists, the whistleblowers, that since 2006 has made public some documents covered by State, military, industrial or banking secrets, whose the least invisible case, although shamefully thrown into prison, is that of Julian Assange) group 1 – invisibility for privacy After a profound examination of conscience, they stated that they can stand fame, but not an invasion of their privacy. We will call them the romantics. cases: JT Leroy (female/male writer, The heart is deceitful above all things, 2000), Thomas Pynchon (writer, Inherent Vice, 2009), Elena Ferrante (female/male writer, My brilliant friend, 2012), Sia (singer, Chandelier, 2014), The André (musician, Canzone dell’Affitto, 2019) group 2 – invisibility in reaction Those who think that «The creative person should have no other biography than his works. If one cannot get to know the human through his works, then either the human is worthless, or his works are worthless» (B. Traven). We will call them the self-confidents. cases: B. Traven (female/male writer, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1927), Martin Margiela (designer, Maison Martin Margiela, 1989-2009), Gorillaz (musicians, Feel Good Inc., 2005), Liberato (musician, We come from Napoli, 2020) group 3 – invisibility as narcissism Their art is placed in that interstitial space between person and character; their authenticity is guaranteed by a mask, mindful of the lesson of Greek theater – in which each role became recognizable to the audience by means of the mask, πρóσωπον (pron. Prósôpon, from which the very etymology of person would derive) – as of Oscar Wilde’s maxim give him a mask and he will tell you the truth. We will call them the archetypals. cases: The Residents (musicians, The third Reich ‘n Roll, 1976), Pandemonia Panacea (socialite, 2009), M¥SS KETA (trapper, Una donna che conta, 2018)
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