Dalla copia al falso al ‘secondo originale’ Percorsi di slittamento di senso e di significato tra materiale e virtuale

The article investigates the relationship between ‘copy’ and ‘fake’ ambiguous status of these definitions in artistic practices recent decades. Episodes narrated art history primary sources are compared with twentieth twenty-first-century episodes. Thus, one comes to notion fake contemporaneity, which no longer has a negative meaning. On contrary, it become an acknowledged practice, means that reveals mise-en-scène each image represents by declaring itself as ‘true’. Also, ‘second original’, obtained thanks contemporary technologies, calls into question Benjaminian artwork’s ‘aura’.