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ITALY IS AN ORCHESTRA OF INTERSECTING IDEAS Photographer Stefan Giftthaler began to reflect how often kinds of artwork, shown so far outside the context for which they were originally created but so integrated into the contemporary Italian landscape, become pop-culture symbols. You can find them reproduced in a calendar at a restaurant [a mural at a restaurant in Palinuro], or on a petrol pump” – where the effect can be fluid or disruptive, earnest or ironic. The sublime kitsch of tourist Italy | Financial Times