La Pecora Nera

Teké Gallery proudly presents the first issue of La Pecora Nera (“The Black Sheep”), curated by La Luce Rossa Lab, the Aldo Mieli Documentation Center, and Giorgia Redoano, as part of the project Reconciling. Artists, Communities, Institutions, curated by Maria Rosa Sossai, promoted by the City of Carrara and produced by mudaC | Museum of Arts Carrara in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, the Institute for the Valorization of Castles, and the cultural association Oltre/Carrara Studi Aperti.

For us, the fanzine is like a black sheep, always straying from the flock.

In a world where communication is increasingly shifting to digital, we’ve chosen to go against the grain and create a one-of-a-kind, paper-based periodical.
A lab where LGBTQIA+ themes, intersectionality, artistic creativity, and irreverence converge.
Through this project, the core issues addressed by the Aldo Mieli Documentation Center step out from the archive shelves and become a starting point for dialogue with artists collaborating with La Luce Rossa, reimagined with a punk attitude.

To mark the launch, Teké Gallery transforms its 17 display windows by inviting artist friends to scratch-draw on a fuchsia background, united by the theme: "Love is love is no longer enough"—a call for greater intersectionality in civil and social struggles.

8:15 PM Presentation with: Luca Locati, Giulia Vallicelli, Juan Carlos Allende

You barely look away before another appears. One becomes two, then another—here, there, everywhere. In five minutes, you’re surrounded. Black sheep are contagious. It only takes one to disrupt the whole flock. As the saying goes: they pop up like mushrooms! But we feel more like herpes: once you’ve got us, you can’t shake us off. Maybe that’s why an idea is more dangerous than a fungal infection, why censorship is evergreen while public healthcare is a novelty. Hunt us, chase us, exterminate us—we’ll come back alive. Black is a tricky color to wear: chic and recently trendy, yet it can hint at authoritarian turns—nothing like the eco-leather of our BDSM outfits (unlike fascists, we’re into that). Besides, black, as the sum of all colors, is also the unlucky cousin of white—the one everyone badmouths at family dinners, the "boogeyman" of fairy tales. We’re embodied difference, the Other bleating at your door (on four legs, two, crawling—your pick). We’re the glitch in the system, the unrepentant rebels; we refuse the night they’d relegate us to. We’re black sheep ALWAYS. "La Pecora Nera" is our unglossy fanzine, a wild bleat among sanitized "Sheep 2000" magazines. We don’t know where the Good Shepherd lives—nor care, accustomed to his cane on our backs. We shun the missionary’s straight path, preferring our sisters’ company, roaming the world. Our home (technically a "fold," but we hate fences; the cheeky might say "stable") is the Aldo Mieli Documentation Center in Carrara, packed with gems, memorabilia, and books. Goats aren’t the only ones who chew on good literature—we black sheep prefer the bad kind, and Aldo Mieli never runs short. Here we are: this editorial, this fanzine, a slow digestion of our long, long past (for better or worse); a present that, against odds, finds us alive and fighting; a future met with our black-sheep verve. A gossipy spirit that never fades—we’ve thrived on chatter. Our "academism" (if you can call it that) is open to all (chlamydia’s on the house). Welcome to our shattered, shameless pen!