The Italian Pavilion, ex-monastery of S. Mary Virgin |
Italian Pavilion, Garden of the Virgins, Venice |
Inauguration of the Italian Pavilion 2013
“Vice Versa” is the title of the exhibition at the Italian Pavilion of the 55. Biennial International
Art Exposition in Venice. The Pavilion is composed of seven rooms, seven settings, each hosting 2 artists who interact in a dual
dialogue.
The show
becomes an ideal voyage into Italian art of today and yesterday containing installations, sculpture, paintings, sound
and visual interventions both inside and outside of the Pavilion.
Names of the 14 Italian artists.
Marcello Maloberti (1966) e Flavio Favelli (1967) - autobiografy e immaginary collettive Massimo Bartolini (1962) e Francesca Grilli (1978) - contrapposition between silence e sound – freedom of speech and censure. Fabio Mauri (1926-2009) e Francesco Arena (1978) - our relationship with history Sislej Xhafa (1970) e Piero Golia (1974) - culture e popular traditions Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992) e Luca Vitone (1964) – landscape suspended beween vision and memory Gianfranco Baruchello (1924) e Elisabetta Benassi (1966) - tension between fragment and system, ambition to archiviate and the impossibility to classify knowledge.
Giulio Paolini (1940) e Marco Tirelli (1956) - art as an illusion
(unfortunately this link is in Italian but you are able to see parts of the exhibition)
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