1 June–24 November 2013
Tese delle Vergini
Arsenale
Venice
Italy
www.viceversa2013.org
www.moussepublishing.com
vice versa
edited by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
published by Mousse Publishing
With texts by Marco Belpoliti, Stefano Catucci, Stefano Chiodi, Andrea Cortellessa, Gabriele Guercio, Riccardo Venturi and Elena Volpato
vice versa explores the complexity that characterizes Italian contemporary art. Following Giorgio Agamben’s concept where in order to interpret Italian culture it is necessary to identify a “series of polarized conjugate concepts,” Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, curator of the exhibition, has chosen seven binomials around which the show and the catalogue are structured: body/history, view/place, sound/silence, perspective/surface, familiar/strange, system/fragment and tragedy/comedy. vice versa is divided into seven chapters—one for each pairing—that present the work of two artists with a critical text, a wide selection of images of the works, technical specifications and information on the artists’ research.
Artists
Francesco Arena, Massimo Bartolini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Elisabetta Benassi, Flavio Favelli, Luigi Ghirri, Piero Golia, Francesca Grilli, Marcello Maloberti, Fabio Mauri, Giulio Paolini, Marco Tirelli, Luca Vitone, Sislej Xhafa
The Italian Pavilion is realized by the Directorate-General for the Landscape, Fine Arts, Architecture and Contemporary Art (PaBAAC) of the Ministry for Cultural Assets, Activities and for Tourism through the Architectural and Contemporary Art.
PaBAAC
General Direction for the Landscape, Fine Arts, Architecture and Contemporary Art promote the contemporary cultural heritage knowledge and preservation, new art languages diffusion, landscape quality and protection, architectural and urban quality, cultural heritage promotion and the development and support to all the expressions of contemporary art creativity in Italy and abroad.
Maddalena Ragni, General Director – General Direction for the Landscape, Fine Arts, Architecture and Contemporary Art (PaBAAC) and commissioner of the Italian Pavilion
Head of Service for Contemporary Architecture and Art—Maria Grazia Bellisario
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