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october 04, 2022 - Ministero dei beni culturali
Italian Pavilion at la Biennale di Venezia 2022
Venice, 19 April 2022 - History of Night and Destiny of Comets (Storia della Notte e Destino delle Comete) is the title of the exhibition project of the Italian Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di #venezia (23 April - 27 November 2022), promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity - Ministry of Culture. Curated by #eugenioviola, the exhibition presents the work of a single artist for the first time in the history of the Italian Pavilion: #gianmariatosatti. The curator chose a project that would act as a powerful statement of contemporaneity, capable of restoring a bold reading of the present and giving Italy a unique voice.
The Italian Pavilion will be inaugurated Friday April 22 at 4.30pm. Will participate: the Minister of Culture #dariofranceschini, the President of La Biennale di #venezia #robertocicutto, the Major of the City of Venice #luigibrugnaro, the Director-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture and Commissioner of the Italian Pavilion #onofriocutaia, the curator #eugenioviola and the artist #gianmariatosatti.
History of Night and Destiny of Comets is conceived as a vast environmental sitespecific installation that occupies the whole space of the Tese delle Vergini. It proposes a vision of the current state of humanity and its future prospects. The work is conceived as an intermediary device that contains and mixes a variety of languages, as usual in Tosatti's research, which integrates literary references and visual art, with stimuli from theatre, music, and performance. A complex, experiential narrative machine that leads the visitor along a sensitive, sometimes familiar and sometimes unsettling path, with the aim of creating a new awareness and concrete reflections on the possible destiny of human civilisation, which fluctuates between the dreams and errors of the past and the promises of a future that has yet to be written in part.
History of Night and Destiny of Comets tells of the difficult balance between man and nature, between sustainable development and territory, between ethics and profit, proposing an aesthetic reading of this scenario and offering an unprecedented platform to develop a comprehensive and profound debate on these issues. The exhibition is envisioned according to a theatrical ratio that articulates the narrative into a prologue and two acts: History of Night and Destiny of Comets.
Italy, with its particular historical background as a young nation recovering from two world wars and affected by an extraordinary economic growth, the so-called "Italian miracle", provides the scenario for this exhibition. The space of the first room is a journey into the ‘Bel Paese’ and coincides with the Story of Night or rather the symbolic story of the rise and fall of the Italian industrial dream.
A series of industrial spaces, originally used for various productions, silently guard obsolete and disused machines, abandoned and lonely objects, in which there is no trace of the human presence that once made them useful and functional. Disturbing scenarios prepares for a final vision in which the imagination is overturned in a true epiphany.
The settings recall La Dismissione (The Dismissal) by Ermanno Rea (Feltrinelli, 2002) and the expanse of warehouses that stretch across the landscape between Ragusa and Cremona, the only paradoxically homogeneous panorama of a hypothetical provincial Italian journey.
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