{"id":8805,"date":"2020-02-04T22:13:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T20:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?p=8805"},"modified":"2020-02-07T19:57:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T17:57:12","slug":"bologna-art-city-2020-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?p=8805","title":{"rendered":"Bologna ART CITY 2020 \u2013 part one"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last week, we made some proposals for exhibitions to see during the ART CITY in Bologna, Italy. Now, after the White Night we visited several more venues. Most of them are still open for some time. It is a diverse programme of smaller or bigger shows, where every art lover will find his\/her pleasure. For this first part, we have chosen presentations in the eastern area and some a little bit outside of Bologna. A review of the western part of the city will follow soon.<\/p>\n

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Padiglione de l\u2019Esprit Nouveau: Mika Taanila. Damage\/Control<\/a><\/p>\n

Stazione ferroviaria Bologna Centrale: Riccardo Benassi. Morestalgia<\/a><\/p>\n

Camera Metropolitana del Lavoro: (RE)framing our identities<\/a><\/p>\n

Galleria Enrico Astuni: S.p.A.A. Societ\u00e0 per Azioni Artistiche<\/a><\/p>\n

Biblioteca Italiana delle Donne \/ Centro delle Donne di Bologna: Silvia Costa. Sono dentro. L\u2019essere ci\u00f2 che \u00e8 chiuso in un tratto<\/a><\/p>\n

Casa Morandi: Francesca Ferreri. Gaussiana<\/a><\/p>\n

Studio Cenacchi: Elena Franco. Imago Pietatis<\/a><\/p>\n

Banca di Bologna: Margherita Moscardini. In the light of<\/a><\/p>\n

Galleria Stefano Forni: Beatrice Gallori. So this is life<\/a><\/p>\n

Casa Saraceni: Luca Maria Castelli. Luoghi SOS-pesi<\/a><\/p>\n

Spazio Kappa-Noun: Jimmie Durham. Another Stone<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mika Taanila. Damage\/Control<\/strong>
\nPadiglione de l\u2019Esprit Nouveau
\nPiazza della Costituzione 11, Bologna
\nwww.artcity.bologna.it<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

23 January \u2013 22 March 2020<\/p>\n

The Padiglione de l\u2019Esprit Nouveau close to the entrance of the ARTE FIERA features the Finish filmmaker and visual artist Mika Taanila. Besides items like \u201cFilm Reader\u201d a series of modified books on cinematic genres and photograms from his series \u201cBlack and White Movies\u201d there are three videos on view. \u201cTectonic Plate\u201d is about a traveller lost in the memories of his journey from Japan to Finland and \u201cFuturo \u2013 A New Stance for Tomorrow\u201d pays tribute the finish architect Matti Suuronen. \u201cThe Future Is Not What It Used to be\u201d shows archived films by the pioneer of multimedia art and electronic music Erkki Kurenniemi. During over 52 minutes, the spectator can not only immerse into the work of this visionary of technical progress, but also reflect on the impact of digitalisation in culture, relationships and daily life. Even though, the venue is a little bit outside the city, it is worth to undertake this journey into archaeology of the future to get insides of our present.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderRiccardo Benassi. Morestalgia.<\/strong>
\nStazione ferroviaria Bologna Centrale, Hall Alta Velocit\u00e0 (floor -4)
\nPiazza Medaglie d\u2019Oro \/ via de\u2019 Carracci, Bologna
\nwww.liveartsweek.it<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

23 \u2013 27 January 2020<\/p>\n

In the hall for high-speed trains of the Bolognese central station, Riccardo Benassi mounted \u201cMorestalgia\u201d. Visitors could walk through this curtain of LED lamps during four days. The location was appropriate for the installation, which wants to reflect on longing in the age of internet and its social components. A train station is per se a spot of arrival, leaving and meeting point for all kind of people. Here, sentiments of longing are concentrated: welcome, farewell, longing for people and places. With high-speed trains, diminish distances between people and locations, likewise with the internet. A good place to pause and think about the changes of our time.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder(RE)framing our identities<\/strong>
\nCamera Metropolitana del Lavoro
\nVia Marconi 67\/2 l, Bologna
\nwww.hundredheroines.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

24 January \u2013 25 March 2020<\/p>\n

Hundred Heroines is a worldwide operating foundation, to support photography and visual arts made by women. Housed by the union headquarters of the Metropolitan City of Bologna, twelve artists contributed with works reflecting on people in a period of transition to find their identity.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_2_placeholderS.p.A.A. Societ\u00e0 per Azioni Artistiche<\/strong>
\nGalleria Enrico Astuni
\nVia Jacopo Barozzi 3, Bologna
\nwww.galleriaastuni.net<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

24 January \u2013 9 May 2020<\/p>\n

Under the title \u201cS.p.A.A. Sociat\u00e0 per Azioni Artistiche\u201d Giacinto di Pietrantonio unites seven artists and seven art critics to an exhibition. The title implies that one might buy shares to invest into art, since the abbreviation S.p.A. in Italian stands for stock company. However, the show wants to question the sense of the art market and the economic factors of art. Therefore, it illustrates different kinds of artistic interventions of artists, which resist in their practice the conversion of their oeuvre to merchandises. For example, David Medalla is a pioneer of Land Art, participative art and Live Art. It is a more or less ephemeral work, difficult to materialise and take away. Alberto Garutti prints his declarations on posters and offers them to the visitors for free. Suzanne Lacy\u2019s interventions are performative and aim to socially relevant topics as gender, work, migration, salary and much more. What remains is only the documentation of the action.<\/p>\n

Carla Accardi, Monica Cuoghi and Claudio Corsello, Peter Halley and Luca Rossi in turn, work differently. Their artistic traces can be retrieved in the exhibition. Every single art critic has commented on one artist, which is manifested on the wall of the Enrico Astuni gallery, once again something ephemeral, difficult to materialise outside the show.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_3_placeholderSilvia Costa. Sono dentro. L\u2019essere ci\u00f2 che \u00e8 chiuso in un tratto.<\/strong>
\nBiblioteca Italiana delle Donne \/ Centro delle Donne di Bologna
\nVia del Piombo 5\/7, Bologna
\nwww.bibliotecadelledonne.it<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

24 -26 January 2020<\/p>\n

The intervention in the Italian Women\u2019s Library by Silvia Costa had a double nature: on one hand it was the artist\u2019s first exhibition in Italy; on the other hand, she publicly performed her artistic practice during three evenings. Usually, Silvia Costa draws alone by night, when everything is quiet, to reflect on her memories of experiences, sensations or encounters. During the days of her public performance, she put aside her personal feelings, to translate the visitor\u2019s input into her drawings.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_4_placeholderFrancesca Ferreri. Gaussiana.<\/strong>
\nCasa Morandi
\nVia Fondazza 36, Bologna
\nwww.mambo-bologna.org\/museomorandi<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

22 January \u2013 22 March 2020<\/p>\n

Situated in the Casa Morandi, the late domicile and working place of the Bolognese painter Giorgio Morandi, \u201cGaussiana\u201d deals with normal distribution or Gaussian. The name giving installation, a paper web that is rolled out over a scaffolding, shows mathematic characters. However, they are not arranged as a formula, but gently drawn onto the ground. In consequence, it resembles less to a mathematic record, but a minute of a choreography, or better like a dancer who slightly touches the paper with his\/her feet. Overall, it is also interesting to visit the former residence of the artist, deceased in 1964.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_5_placeholderElena Franco: Imago Pietatis<\/strong>
\nStudio Cenacchi
\nVia Santo Stefano 63, Bologna
\nwww.studiocenacchi.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

22 January \u2013 22 February 2020<\/p>\n

For her exhibition \u201cImago Pietatis\u201d (images of the passion of Jesus) Elena Franco researched in the historic archive of the Mount of piety of Bologna, today preserved by the Fondazione del Monte of Bologna and Ravenna. Here conserved are documents of the Bolognese Mount of piety, a kind of a charity pawnbroker.<\/p>\n

Elena Franco focussed on the paintings situated at the cutting edges of around hundred volumes. In this special case, they are decorated with illustrations of the passion of Jesus or symbols for it, for example the passionflower. The artist photographed these pictures and created an artist book in an edition of three copies, inspired by the form of the original volumes. One of the originals is also visible in the exhibition, thanks to the generous support of the Fondazione del Monte.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Elena Franco created other works, which refer to the archives collection. On view there are posters with single images, photos of the passion-plant or printed cloth. As a whole, the exhibition is not a documentation of a historic heritage, but a contemporary reinterpretation, which makes the ancient documents accessible for us. Convenient to this exhibition, the ones who passed by the Oratorio dell Spirito Santo during the White Night could watch a film about printing and bookbinding in ancient times.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_6_placeholderMargherita Moscardini: In the light of<\/strong>
\nBanca di Bologna Headquater
\nPiazza Galvani 4, Bologna<\/p>\n

21 January \u2013 21 February 2020<\/p>\n

Margherita Moscardini\u2019s installation \u201cIn the Light of\u201d is a quotation of Hannah Arendt. In her book \u201cThe Origins of Totalitarianism\u201d the philosopher describes in the ninth chapter that the European nation-states didn\u2019t ensure minority rights, when officially founding their countries. Margherita Moscardini presents the chapter title \u201cThe Decline of the Nation State and the End of the Rights of Man\u201d in neon letters. Herewith, she wants to reflect on the never revised founding treaties of nations that still exclude people. This could be a point of departure to a paradigm shift, without national citizenship, but a legal protection for everyone as foreigner.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_7_placeholderBeatrice Gallori: So this is life<\/strong>
\nGalleria Stefano Forni
\nPiazza Cavour 2, Bologna
\nwww.galleriastefanoforni.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

15 December 2019 \u2013 26 January 2020<\/p>\n

The mostly monochrome works by Beatrice Gallori are ranging from relief to sculpture. Seemingly, organic forms are primary made of synthetic materials like polymers. They have smooth brilliant surfaces, sometimes with recesses, which appear like acid burns. Reading the title of the exhibition, they could be hurting incisions of daily life. Other oeuvres appear to bubble out like the pure joy of living.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_8_placeholderLuca Maria Castelli: Luoghi SOS-pesi<\/strong>
\nCasa Saraceni
\nVia Farini 15, Bologna<\/p>\n

19 January \u2013 22 February 2020<\/p>\n

Luca Maria Castelli visited places in and around Bologna, which are abandoned since years. This might be private houses or formerly public places like the Cinema Modernissimo. Some are derelict and regained by nature, for others a new \u201clife\u201d has just started by restauration and conversion like for the Autostazione (central bus station). A special destiny shall be provided for the arcades guiding to the church of San Luca as part of the candidacy as UNESCO world heritage. No matter if one knows the places and have a new encounter with them or not: the photos are touching and invite to linger.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_9_placeholderJimmie Durham. Another Stone.<\/strong>
\nSpazio Kappa-Noun
\nVia Lambertini 5, San Lazzaro di Savena
\nwww.artcity.bologna.it<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

18 January \u2013 29 March 2020<\/p>\n

Even though stone is a very important material for Jimmie Durham, not all the works in the show include it. Entering the exhibition space, a PVC pipe directly aims at the visitor. The wooden scaffolding bearing the pipe resembles a clumsy cannon. Left hand, \u201cTwo Friends Supporting Each Other\u201d is a sculpture made of an unusual couple: abandoned, a refrigerator and an automobile tire cuddle up together. Nevertheless, stone cannot be absent! Passing through the cannon, there is a comparatively inconspicuous stone tablet with a procced stone besides. Labelled by the title as prehistoric, the inscription supposes that the tool comes from the Seine River. However, the narrative suddenly changes.<\/p>\n

A little bit hidden is the installation \u201cMarble gloves\u201d where a marble plate stands on two leather gloves. Prominent becomes the stone in \u201cRed Cloud\u201d. The huge foundling in ros\u00e9 seems to press down the little wooden table, which is underlined by the curved form of its legs. Additionally, there are shards of red glass from the tabletop, lying on the floor. They remind blood, squeezed out from the table by its burden. Although, the space in the Kappa-Noun is fairly limited for these and some other big sculptures, the exhibition makers arranged that it is possible to contemplate each sculpture isolated or in communication with its surroundings.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_10_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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