*2024 stock* Briefly, Ballare is an artist’s book created by Riccardo Benassi as a response to an unexpected and enlightening event: in a Museum visitors’ book the signatories made complaints – which soon turned to anger – with regard to a work by the artist in question. So Riccardo Benassi decided to transform an apparent obstacle into an actual trampoline, doing so in story form. The artist attempts to analyse the succession of events, his role as cultural operator in contemporary society and – taking advantage of the fact that the incriminated work was one of sound and therefore invisible – calls into question the “visual” quality of aesthetic judgement. Partly essay, sentimental diary and critical pamphlet, Briefly, Ballare may actually be considered as an autonomous work of art, a journey in which sound and language interweave and abandon one another with view to bringing about new situations.