Luigi Lineri, rock collector

I think about Luigi Lineri all the time. For decades, he has walked alongside the river near his home, bringing home rocks and sorting them by shape, packing rooms in his house and a barn with his finds. Is it art? Ecological madness? A nightmare? Why are we driven to take and hoard? “I haven’t counted them and don’t intend to do so but the quantity is significant,” Lineri said. “At first I thought that a few stones for each different shape would be enough and then I understood that in their...