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march 07, 2023 - fondazione antonio dalle nogare
Fondazione Live: BRACHA’s Lecture | 17.03.2023 at 8 PM
In the context of the exhibition Re-Materialization of Language. 1978-2022, the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation presents, on 17 March at 8 PM, BRACHA's Lecture. Meeting with Bracha L. Ettinger. The #event, introduced by exhibition curators Cristiana Perrella and Andrea Viliani, will be preceded at 7 PM by a guided tour through the current exhibitions.
Proposing itself as the third of the activations planned for the Fondazione Live public programme, which will take place periodically, the #event contributes to activate the exhibition through the public sharing of language that is not only written and depicted, but also acted out live and in real time, through body and thought. Thus, by activating itself periodically, the exhibition reconfigures itself as an analysis of the constantly redefining boundary between word and image, artwork and document, exhibition and action, author and visitor.
Bracha L. Ettinger (Tel Aviv, 1948) - who in the context of her artistic practice has adopted the name BRACHA - articulates different media such as notebooks and theoretical writing, performative encounter-events, drawing and painting, which are composed in an organic continuum consisting of fragmentary annotations, alongside theoretical texts, paintings and drawings characterised by drafts and sketches sometimes accompanied by stains soaked in pure colour, and by figurations that are both phantasmagorical and dense with possible evocations. All those are a part of the artist’s daily practices, and refer to abstract ideas interwoven with a biographical and historical dimension that questions memory and the unconscious and requires a slow and laborious production, such as that needed by her small-scale oil paintings on canvas or attentive inscription in notebooks. Therefore, taken together, Bracha’s artworks translate the depth and radicality of a figure in whom different matrices come together, from psychoanalysis - the artist was also a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst - to self-affirmation as an artist, philosopher and feminist theorist, emerging in these areas of investigation and experimentation as one of the most authoritative artists and authors of the second half of the 20th and the first quarter of the 21st century.
The first public presentation of her paintings took place at the beginning of the 1980s, in a context in which the artist rejected the figuration and monumentality that were predominant in the artistic language of the time, outlining instead an autonomous and anticipatory research. From the 1980s, Ettinger began to develop her activity as a feminist philosopher and theorist, as the author of numerous essays, which were brought together and published in 1999 (Régard et éspace-de-bord matrixiels), 2006 (The Matrixial Gaze) and more recently in a volume edited by Professor Griselda Pollock (Matrixial Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Ethics). The fundamental concept proposed by #brachalettinger in her philosophical and theoretical essays is that of the matrixial, which has contributed to refounding contemporary thought on subjectivity by redesigning, as the curator Marcella Beccaria has written, "the formation of the human subject by looking at the pre-natal condition, when mother-in-being and foetus interact". In participation with this concept, the author elaborated further concepts and invented, to indicate some of them, the neologisms and syntactic constructs of a veritable new expressive vocabulary for thinking aesthetics, ethics and the feminine, including: metramorphosis, transjectivity, transubjectivity, distance-in-proximity and proximity-in-distance, matrixial gaze, matrixial space, encounter-event, wit(h)nessing, carriance, fascinance, border-linking and border-spacing, co-poiesis.
The #event BRACHA's Lecture. Meeting with Bracha L. Ettinger will be an opportunity to deepen and share with the audience these concepts and her vocabulary, the relevance of which lies in the epochal shift that they have helped to bring about in contemporary Western thought that is still predominantly patriarchal: by connecting feminist thought and reflections on the new digital episteme, Ettinger has in both cases overcome the oppositional and binary logics to indicate the alternative possibility of both solitary (and internal) and collaborative (and external) practices of co-emergence and co-poiesis.
On the occasion of the #event, and until the end of the exhibition Re-Materialization of Language 1978-2022, the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation will also present Bracha’s Notebooks and Drawings – A selection in the Library area. The most recent personal presentation of the artist's works in an Italian public museum took place at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea with a series of three exhibitions (Espressioni, 4 November 2021 - 27 February 2023, curated by Carolyn Christov Bakargiev and Marcela Beccaria) accompanied by the first Notebook publication made by the CRRI-Centro di Ricerca Castello di Rivoli (edited by Anna Musini and Andrea Viliani) to accompany Bracha L. Ettinger. BRACHA's Notebooks which was a part of the exhibition programme Espressioni.
Bracha L. Ettinger Photo: Maria Luigia Gioffre ©BLE
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Bracha L. Ettinger, No title, drawing, mixed media, 2022
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Installation view from the exhibition at Castello di Rivoli
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