Theater of Exhibitions #2
Theater of Exhibitions #2
From 21 To 30 June 2011
Curated by Marcello Smarrelli
21 l 24 l 27 l 30 June 2011, from 5.30 to 11.00 PM
THE EXHIBITION
The French Academy in Rome, whose history has been closely linked to prestigious artists for five centuries, is proud to host the second edition of the Theater of Exhibitions. It is designed to be a place where the artists and scholars in residence at Villa Medici can show their work and interact. The different spaces of the Villa, starting with the highly evocating Atelier del Bosco, will become stages for exhibitions and temporary performances by the scholars. Only one rule applies: they have to realise a path that will materialise a world of images, suggestions, and cultural references linked with their research and studies in Rome.
THE PROJECT
The name of the Theater of Exhibitions recalls the now famous experience of Plino De Martiis' Teatro delle Mostre, a set of exhibitions created in Rome in 1968. De Martiis offered his gallery, La Tartaruga (the turtle) to a different artist every day. Each new exhibition cancelled the previous one, made by another artist. Those exhibitions announced the concept of dematerialisation of the art object that would later become crucial in the practice of art. It included the idea of a disappearing art, that would only survive through its documentation. During the four evenings of the Theater of Exhibitions, the public is invited to attend a heterogeneous program of exhibitions, performances, concerts, sound installations and cinematographic projections. The only common element is the provisional presentation of a panorama of the contemporary French and international art scene.
THE CATALOGUE
The Theater of Exhibitions will be continued in a catalogue, which will not only be a documentary tool but a proper space for exhibition. This other creative space will be destined to show interventions specifically conceived for the catalogue. It will be published on December 2011.
MONDAY June 27
Joana Barreto | art history |
Ettore Favini | artist |
De bello, Debello, Del bello
Atelier del Bosco | Show
The bronze door of Castelnuovo in Naples, only door of the secular Renaissance marks the beginning of a new interest in the representation of the battles. The exhibition aims to highlight this new, visually suggests paths through panels, graphics and casts made by restorers and Lorenzo Giovanni Morigi. Collaborating with the artist Ettore Favini, we tried to update the theme of the battlefield. In fact, in his series Battles the artist went to the places the scene of historic battles, re-photographing them as they occur in the contemporary spectator.
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