"Dopotolomeo," far from being an astronomical dissertation, instead refers to the "aftermath" of a lamp, and more precisely to what has happened in the professional life of Michele De Lucchi from the birth of the famous Tolomeo lamp, conceived in 1986, until today.

"Dopotolomeo" is a diary that is as sincere and messy as the succession of events of life; it is a collage of images and thoughts, as chaotic as anything that comes to life in people's heads. The thread of this diary is drawn from the notebooks that De Lucchi has kept ever since his time at university: from the first one on squared paper for his accounts, to the larger ones with paper for water-colours, to the "small notebooks" ("quadernini"), packed with words, which now represent Michele De Lucchi's professional history.

The flow of the images of "Dopotolomeo" is reminiscent of a karstic river, in which the messages sometimes appear very clear, immediate-- the analogies to the anthropomorphous forms of many of his projects-- and others are more subtended, hidden, underground. Yet the river keeps on flowing and a little further on it resurfaces, carrying along its history, a continuous flow, even if made of discontinuity, because "it is an essential part of making projects to produce and sustain reasons of discontinuity."