Exhibitions
Marinus Boezem, Simone Forti, David Medalla, Maurizio Mochetti, Maurizio Nannucci, Malick Sidibé, Michael Snow. Special project: Jonathan Monk
Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna
from 29.01.2016 to 30.07.2016
Curated by: Lorenzo Bruni
Press release: PDF
The artists involved in this exhibition are very different among themselves for their cultural references and for their research. Nevertheless they share the time in which their practice was born (the mid Sixties), the same attitude towards the “dematerialization of the art object” and the investigation beyond the limits of the canvas.
A more relevant factor is that they have similar attitudes in starting an active dialogue with the dematerialized world produced by the social media and by the globalized communication in which they live. The outcome is a process-like consideration on the “presence” of the image, in a broad sense. Due to the nature of this curatorial choice, we invited the artist Jonathan Monk to design a special project aimed to introduce and expand its dynamics. Monk’s practice, which begun in the Nineties, is very close to the above considerations and, for this occasion, the artist has created three different works: one of these is IERI, OGGI, DOMANI, ECCETERA… which characterizes the exhibition’s poster/invitation and, consequently, becomes its conceptual/emotional container.
66|16 is a comparison between two collective exhibitions of the same artists: one, is characterized by artworks realized in 1966, while the other by artworks realized in 2016. The artworks realized in our “present time” will be added throughout the duration of the show and will be accompanied by talks and events defining the space differently, time after time. Every month from February, a new artist will be added to the initial list: therefore some contextualized solo shows will take place in a wider project.
This particular display is a “laboratory” place, a work in progress space. On one hand it underlines that the show is not only about one topic but intends to offer itself as a discussion platform. On the other hand, it suggests this is not merely a collective exhibition with a historicist intent but rather a consideration on History and on histories, on the modernity of the past and on the necessity to rethink the role of culture in order to re-elaborate the concept of collective future.
Artribune, Un work in progress lungo mezzo secolo. A Bologna. Recensione di Simone Rebora (IT)
Segno, Aprile/Maggio 2016 n. 257, 66 |16. Recensione di Maria Letizia Paiato
Segno, Giovedì Performativi – CENSOR di Simone Forti da Enrico Astuni, recensione di M.L.Paiato
Giuliet Art Magazine, Simone Forti. Censor Performance, articolo di Emanuela Zanon
Censor, performance by Simone Forti for the 66 16 curated by Lorenzo Bruni, Allevents.eu
