The collective rituals before and after the web
Changes Video, Charmet Marina Ballo, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Vanessa Beecroft, Cristian Chironi, Mario Cresci , Paola Di Bello, Flatform, Nino Migliori, Adrian Paci, Franco Vaccari, Naomi Vona, Carlo Zanni
by Alberto Fiz and Luca Panaro
Catanzaro, 19 December 2010-27 March 2011 BRAND
Opening: Saturday, December 18 at 18:30
with the artists during the week preceding the exhibition will be on stage with the people of Catanzaro installing mobile Flatform
After the recent success of the exhibitions and Michelangelo Pistoletto Alessandro Mendini, the museum BRAND Catanzaro continues its programming by presenting a strong innovative project that to question stems from the idea of community in an era of radical social change, where technology has taken a prominent role. Community. The collective rituals before and after the web is inaugurated at the headquarters of BRAND Saturday, December 18 at 18.30 and will be open until 27 March.
The exhibition, curated by Alberto Fiz and Luca Panaro, is promoted by the Province of Catanzaro Department of Culture in collaboration with the Regione Calabria - Department of Culture and sponsored by the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, the Regional Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Landscape of Calabria, Sensi Contemporary - Ministry of Economic Development Foundation and Mimmo Rotella.
The exhibition, accompanied by a comprehensive catalog published by Electa in Italian and English, is part the Calabria Regional Operational Plan 2007/2013 European Regional Development Fund.
For this important event were involved in 14 groups and artists from different generations such alterations Video, Charmet Marina Ballo, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Vanessa Beecroft, Cristian Chironi, Mario Cresci, Paola Di Bello, Flatform, Nino Migliori, Adrian Paci, Franco Vaccari, Naomi Vona, Carlo Zanni. A comparison of the great masters and young representatives of the new media that allows you to reflect on the concept of community from the fifties to the present, through photographs, video, web projects and interactive installations. There is even a group of mobile installation Flatform that during the previous days opening of the exhibition recorded the reactions of people in the streets of the city of Catanzaro.
"After a series of exhibitions with an historical and philological, MARC proposes another project particularly involving current and where the art is an opportunity to ask about ourselves and our relationship with others. Faced with an often exaggerated individualism, it appears appropriate to address the issue of the community through a cross that involves reading the great masters of Italian photography, as well as some of the most significant artists of the last generation, "says Wanda Ferro President of the Province of Catanzaro with responsibility for Culture.
In recent decades the vision of the community has been profoundly transformed, and there has been a shift from collective rituals that took place in real places (houses, roads, parks, bars), aggregation processes of technology developed in virtual environments (blogs, chat , social networks). The community, in short, often, has become the online community (on Facebook have joined 500 million people around the world) and the Web has profoundly changed the relationship between individuals, although he has kept intact the desire of belonging and unity based on common interests.
explains Alberto Fiz, Artistic Director of the brand "has moved from rigid and hierarchical community based precise guidelines on political, ideological and family, community and delocalized fluid and devoid of a territorial reference, which is mainly developed based on the experience of individuals. A path that goes towards a participatory culture and relational described effectively cut unprecedented exposure. " Luca Panaro
And he adds: "The selected artists have in common the use of a careful and searching look against a constantly changing society. Reflecting on the community for each of these authors is an absolute necessity in the task of interpreting their time. " The exhibition compares
Community representative images of different ages and social conditions very different from each other. As the vision "neorealist" returned by the photos of Nino Migliori (Bologna 1926), searching glances, gestures and hierarchies in Emilia People and People of the South recorded on the doorstep or on the steps of the roads in the fifties. The survey
Mario Cresci (Chiavari 1942) conducted in real Portraits exhibition, however, the livelihoods of small family groups in some countries of Basilicata in the early seventies. While the Youth Party of the Proletariat in Parco Lambro, Milan, photographed in 1976 by Gabriele Basilico (Milan 1944) at the last Festival Nude King testifies to the sense of community hippy giving back what the newspapers of the time called it "the apotheosis of provocation." In this case, 30 images are displayed vintage, some of which are new.
Another chapter of the exhibition addresses the question of combining community in some cities, such as discussion on new collective rituals of the society. Just think of the series The Park Marina Ballo Charmet (Milan 1952), carried out in various cities around the world to investigate this new place for socializing and sharing especially on holidays. The coexistence of a multitude of people is also visible in the images of Olivo Barbieri (Carpi, 1954), especially in the video offered on this occasion Nigth Seascape # 1, China Shenzhen, 05, shot to document a generation of Chinese during a swim in the moonlight.
The theme of the festival also runs through the work of Paola Di Bello (Naples 1961), which often point the lens on the integration of individuals, as in Framing the community, where people of different groups testify that they belong to a single urban landscape.
Football as a collective ritual is the theme around which develops the investigation Cristian Chironi (Nu 1974) that exploits the power of imagination with the complicity of the viewer. A work on memory, his, where a collection of vintage photos metaphorically represents the generation of a community store. To reflect on the state Community
the video of Adrian Paci (Albania-Shkodra 1969) detention center in the exhibition where a row of various ethnic groups of non climbs the ladder of a plane that turns out not to be there and, above all, never fail to start. In his works, the poetic act of remembrance and of belonging to redefine the identity of people adversely affected by migration processes.
With the work of Vanessa Beecroft (Genoa 1969), a leading interpreter of contemporary research, develops further the investigation into the contemporary rituals focusing on groups of young women while performing actions in places steeped in memory are deprived of any possibility of dialogue or relationship. Female figures are mute and motionless witnesses of an era dominated by the cult of body image. In this case there are two monumental works of three meters, which refer to the performance achieved in 2008 the church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo in Palermo.
The festival will continue addressing the contemporary reflection on the community with technology, starting from the pioneering work of Franco Vaccari (Modena 1936) that he became interested in spontaneous communication of certain groups of individuals in the late sixties, to find its most known representation of the installation presented at the Venice Biennale of 1972 left on these walls of a photographic trace of your passage. In this and other recent works of the author is easy to incorporate a number of advances on virtual communities of today and the involvement of thousands of people to co-creation of a single project. BRAND is exposed to a series of works that refer to their environments / installations best known (including the Biennale of 1972) made from 1969 to 2009. In all circumstances he appears to be concealed by triggering a reversal of normal roles related to the use of art and an unexpected report from the public.
The road opened by Vaccari is broad consensus among the artists of the younger generation that the direct documentation of reality prefer the interaction mediated by information technologies. In this regard, it is interesting to compare with the work of young Naomi Vona (Desio 1982) Infidels media, showing the faces of thousands of people self-published on YouTube, first puzzled, then finally disgusted and appalled after watching a video forbidden. The collective Alterations Video format in 2004 in Milan, which acts as an international network, focuses on new technologies and the relationship between truth and representation, legality and illegality, freedom and censorship in contemporary society. As apparent in the video show brought in Last Known address obtained with the help of Google Earth. Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, 1975) directly involves the people of the web that can connect directly with his work in modifying the assumption of a copyright group. The data streams collected by the digital experience to create social awareness of the invisible but very numerous community that is the appointment online.
very significant, finally, the interactive project proposed by Flatform Catanzaro, a group of artists born in Milan in 2006. In this circumstance s'intrufola between the districts of the city Flatcase, an installation on wheels made each piece of equipment that records the reactions of people faced with two different video during the days preceding exposure. The exhibition presents the results of this territory with the inhabitants of Catanzaro, which become the protagonist of the work. The museum hosts took to the streets and their communities.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog in English and Italian, published by Electa with critical essays by Alberto Fiz and Luca Panaro, as well as publication of all the works on display.
community. The collective rituals before and after the web. Catanzaro, Marco (Via Alessandro Turkish 63), December 19, 2010 - March 27, 2011. Hours: Tuesdays through Sundays from 9.30 to 13, 16 to 20.30, closed Mondays Admission: € 3, tel. 0961.746797. Catalog Electa.
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Opening: Saturday, December 18, 2010 at 18:30 in the presence of the artists.
Exhibition curated by Alberto Fiz and Luca Panaro promoted by the Province of Catanzaro - Department of Culture under the auspices of the Calabria Region, the Ministry of Heritage and Culture and the Regional Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Landscape of Calabria. The exhibition is part of the Calabria Regional Operational Plan 2007/2013 European Regional Development Fund.
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