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With the coordination of Fabbrica Europa
in collaboration with Oxymoron (Athens)
in association with Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki) and Quarter (Florence)
This stage of activity contains an exhibition project under Sergio Risaliti / Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le Arti Contemporanee Florence, Marina Fokidis and Daphne Vitali / Oxymoron Athens. The stage will be the realisation of a travelling show (Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art / Thessaloniki, Quarter / Florence) with the title of "The gesture. A visual library in progress".
The exhibition will present the personal exploration of the three curators on the theme of gesture in the visual arts, set up in different modalities, as gesture of love, impossibility, transcendence, resistance, accompanied by an illustrated catalogue. Combined in a nonlinear way the different "documents" will be presented in the form of a visual library, providing a site of exchange, pleasure and investigation; a play-off to the conventional codes of the visual art history.
Milestone moments within the exploration of gestural expressions like I Like and America Likes me by Joseph Beuys, Leap into the Void by Yves Klein, The Lovers (Walk on the great Wall of China) by Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Shoot by Chris Burden, Stamping in the Studio by Bruce Nauman, and others by Vito Acconci, Richard Serra, Sophie Calle, Giuseppe Chiari, Ligia Papa will be presented alongside works of younger generations like Pipilotti Rist, Piotr Uklanski, Francis Alÿs, Jeremy Deller, Douglas Gordon, Sislej Xhafa, Uri Tzaig, Anri Sala, Lara Favaretto, Paolo Canevari, Stalker group and others.
"The Gesture. A visual library in progress" is a critical presentation intending to provoke a physical and mental displacement where the public can find paradigms of gesture crossing geographical and cultural borders. A space composed of enigmatic intersections referring to the physic and social condition of the global culture and memory. |
