I am not sure why the Italian pavilion should always be representing a collective show. An exhibition within an exhibition while other national pavilions do make a choice of 1 or 2 artists most of the time.
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi's Vice Versa is showing a messy approach by 14 artists (14!!!) in its 7 areas including 4 performing acts by Marcello Maloberti, Francesca Grilli, Fabio Mauri, Sislej Xhafa and 10 displays by Francesco Arena, Massimo Bartolini, Piero Golia, Giulio Paolini, Marco Tirelli, Luca Vitone, Gianfranco Baruchello, Flavio Favelli, Luigi Ghirri, Elisabetta Benassi.
All together covering from class 1924 to class 1968. More then 4 decades between Mauri and Baruchello and Grilli and Vitone. It seems to me that Pietromarchi was more anxious about making everybody happy then to realize a consistent contemporary exhibition. What's the meaning of all that?
Could he not chose a project? Does it always has to be a curatorial "statement" of some sort? Why can't we choose who is a great Italian artist here and now? Having said that there is obviously some very good artwork-Flavelli and Benassi in my opinion- and performances by Fabio Mauri (RIP) and Francesca Grilli while I couldn't really understand the overall meaning of such an effort. I really think it is a problem of "Format" where even interesting works (such as Golia's cement interactive piece) lose its energy. The good side of the story is that we made an enormous step forward after the disaster movie by Vittorio Sgarbi's edition where dignity was killed by ignorance, arrogance and stupidity.
After that ..It's like..a new start..hoping that the next edition will have a better use of the crowfunded 85000 euro budget.
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi's Vice Versa is showing a messy approach by 14 artists (14!!!) in its 7 areas including 4 performing acts by Marcello Maloberti, Francesca Grilli, Fabio Mauri, Sislej Xhafa and 10 displays by Francesco Arena, Massimo Bartolini, Piero Golia, Giulio Paolini, Marco Tirelli, Luca Vitone, Gianfranco Baruchello, Flavio Favelli, Luigi Ghirri, Elisabetta Benassi.
All together covering from class 1924 to class 1968. More then 4 decades between Mauri and Baruchello and Grilli and Vitone. It seems to me that Pietromarchi was more anxious about making everybody happy then to realize a consistent contemporary exhibition. What's the meaning of all that?
Could he not chose a project? Does it always has to be a curatorial "statement" of some sort? Why can't we choose who is a great Italian artist here and now? Having said that there is obviously some very good artwork-Flavelli and Benassi in my opinion- and performances by Fabio Mauri (RIP) and Francesca Grilli while I couldn't really understand the overall meaning of such an effort. I really think it is a problem of "Format" where even interesting works (such as Golia's cement interactive piece) lose its energy. The good side of the story is that we made an enormous step forward after the disaster movie by Vittorio Sgarbi's edition where dignity was killed by ignorance, arrogance and stupidity.
After that ..It's like..a new start..hoping that the next edition will have a better use of the crowfunded 85000 euro budget.
