02.10 - 1.11.2020
Arcipelago Aperto
Magazzini del Sale, Venezia
A cura di Daniele Capra, Martina Cavallarin, Miguel Mallol e Julia Terzano
The exhibition brings together the works of nine artists who attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice from the 1970s to the present day in a dialogue between artistic generations, as a result of workshops organised by the Venice Curatorial Course. With the assistance of Daniele Capra, Martina Cavallarin, Miguel Mallol and Julia Terzano, the exhibition includes various types of works, from canvases to performances, from installations to site-specific projects.
Through the works of Ludovico Bomben, Nebojša Despotović, Arthur Duff, Antonio Guiotto, Olga Lepri, Giovanni Morbin, Maria Elisabetta Novello, Michelangelo Penso and Eva Chiara Trevisan, Arcipelago Aperto analyses how art can be conceived as a plural system in which the boundaries between different elements are extensively and substantially blurred.
Considering the archipelago as an organic entity composed of different identities, it is necessarily and simultaneously one and many, a choir and a single voice.
Recent events have forced us to reconsider space as an element and to forget the concept of time. Forces beyond our control have forced us to rethink the concepts of dimension, coexistence and limits. In constant confrontation with external agents, an archipelago — and Venice itself — serve as a metaphor for a changing reality, always destined to transform and evolve substantially. Recognising change as a central element in understanding continuity and persistence, Arcipelago Aperto is an invitation to imagine new boundaries and redraw their outlines. It is a challenge to read the work as a constant reconfiguration and renegotiation, which takes place thanks to a continuous and plastic relationship with others, in which spatial and topological limits are constantly being redefined.
Works by:
Ludovico Bomben, Nebojša Despotović, Arthur Duff, Antonio Guiotto, Olga Lepri, Giovanni Morbin, Maria Elisabetta Novello, Michelangelo Penso, Eva Chiara Trevisan
Venice Curatorial Course 2020 collective: Paola Cenati, Shengyu Chen, Dominika Chrzanová, Rebecka Forsén, Julia Grosshans, Feng Luo, Sorcha McNamara, Zhenyu Wang
“No man is an island, […] any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
John Donne
