Persona in meno
8 May – 20 June 2010
Palazzo Re Rebaudengo
Guarene d’Alba
Italy
18 September – 18 October 2010
Palazzo Ducale
Genova
Italy
info [at] fsrr.org
Persona in meno offers “portraiture without portraiture” as a paradoxical framework for considering the diverse works of more than twenty contemporary Italian artists—from an overarching parabola of basil to a bronze cast of the human soul. Punctuated by sound, as well as by moving images and moving objects, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo and Palazzo Ducale are filled with works that elicit absent presences, apparitions, surrogates, private rituals, reappearances, and failed attempts at invisibility. Surveyed together, these works hover between what is visibly absent and absently visible.
Persona in meno is curated by Angelique Campens (Belgium), Erica Cooke (USA) and Chris Fitzpatrick (USA), fellows of the fourth edition of the Young Curators’ Residency programme coordinated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol (Italy) and supported by the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin) and Fondazione Edoardo Garrone (Genoa) with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo (Turin).
Young Curators Residency Programme
For their annual residency programme, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo invite art schools around the world to submit a list of candidates. An international jury (Carlos Basualdo, contemporary art curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Francesco Bonami, artistic director of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Jan Debbaut former director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and Teresa Gleadowe, founder of the MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in London) select three young curators from the nominees, who are then invited by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo to spend three months in Italy. During this time, they have the opportunity to explore and develop their knowledge about Italian artists and the Italian contemporary art scene by visiting artists’ studios, museums and galleries and by meeting curators, museum directors, gallerists and critics. The residency programme offers a reflection on contemporary curatorial practice and allows the development and further promotion of the Italian art scene around the world as well as offering the young curators the chance to explore the country and its art scene and to present their own show with the full support of a professional structure. The curators have a coordinator who is there to advise and guide them throughout the residency, although they are fully independent in their choice of artists, curatorial concept and structure of the final exhibition.
