2012 Programme
Event #13
MASBEDO
The artist as sacred parasite
What does it mean to be an artist today? How does the art system function and what connection does it have with the artist? By telling about their work with the help of images, Masbedo analyze the artist’s difficult role. “Many stereotypes cast artists as people existing without the reality principle. By sacred parasite, instead, we mean an active and creative being who inhabits a complex system where daily life often conflicts with the natural flow of things and becomes a constraint on imagination and passion. Artists are parasites as they need to feed off reality in order to survive. Their mission is sacred for they sublimates life in poetry and try to turn poetry into a weapon of resistance to reality”. A testimony on art languages, video-art, the art market and system (duration: approx. 2 hours).
are Nicolò Massazza (Milan 1973) and Iacopo Bedogni (Sarzana 1970), two video artists and performers whose work has been exhibited in many museums and galleries in the past 10 years, including Rome’s MAXXI, Barcelona’s Centro de Cultura Contemporanea, Warsaw’s Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle, Turin’s GAM and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. In 2010 they won the Cairo Award and presented their short Distante un padre at the UN World Forum at Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of Contemporary Art. they were selected for the Italian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale. They have participated in a number of festivals, and in 2006 they were the only video artists selected to exhibit in Piazza Grande at the Locarno Film Festival. They collaborate with the French writer Michel Houellebecq since 2002. Their works were acquired by some of Europe’s most important private and public collections.
Event #3
Anna Salvo
Sorrow is like a telescope that helps us look into the distance: creatività and suffering
Event #4
Andrea Moro
I speak, therefore I am Like the starry sky: visions of language across the centuries
Event #28
Mauro Agnoletti, Ilaria Borletti Buitoni
Culture, environment, landscape. For a possible, sustainable future
