Here are the images of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024

by Editorial Staff, written on 04/18/2024
Categories: News Focus / Topics: Contemporary art

Here are the images of the Italian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale: for this edition our country presents itself with the project “Due qui / To hear” by Massimo Bartolini, on the theme of listening. Cost: 1.2 million euros. Ratings coming soon, photos for now!

First images of Italian Pavilion from the Venice Biennale 2024: our country proposes the exhibition project for the sixtieth edition Two Here / To Hear Of Massimo Bartoliniedited by Luca Cerizzawith the assistance of Francesca Verga. The project focuses on a sound and environmental installation by the artist Massimo Bartolini, who returns to the Biennale after his participation in 2013. Two Here / To Hear aims to create an immersive journey through all the spaces of the Italian Pavilion, including the gardenin which empty and full, movements and pauses, lead to unexpected encounters with sound and performative works and installations. This experience aims to dialogue with the general theme of the Biennale, Foreigners Everywhere / Foreigners Everywhereproposing a reflection on the concept of strangeness And on the importance of understanding yourself as the first step to understanding others.

The title of the project itself wants to suggest the importance of inner listening as a prelude to listening to others. Bartolini carries forward the concept that meeting and mutual listening are fundamental for understanding and human connection. The project develops around two symbolic figures: the trees In the Garden of the Virgins it’s a Pensive Bodhisattva inside the Pavilion. These figures are intended to represent moments of immobility which in reality hide an intense inner activity and a profound connection with the natural and spiritual world. The sound installation by Massimo Bartolini, at the center of the project, aims to involve the public in a circular journey through the spaces of the Italian Pavilion, creating a multi-sensory experience that encourages listening and reflection.

“Playing on the assonance between ‘Two here’ and ‘To hear’, in an only apparently incorrect translation, the title of the project already suggests how to hear, and even better listen, the action of ‘tending one’s ear’ is a form of attention towards others”, writes Luca Cerizza in his text. “Meeting and listening, relationship and sound are, moreover, two indissoluble elements here as in Massimo Bartolini’s more than thirty-year practice. ‘We listen in order to interpret our world and experience meaning’, wrote Pauline Oliveros. In Two Here / To Hear the acoustic paradigm must be understood as a physical experience but also as a metaphor, an invitation to pay attention, to listen to the other, be it a human being, a mechanical element, a natural form. If, for Bartolini, art is a path of knowledge, the project suggests that ‘listening’ can be a tool for self-improvement within the community of the world. […] The spectator has followed a two-way itinerary: from the tree to the Bodhisattva or vice versa. We could imagine these figures as the sentinels of a circular path, at the center of which we cross a labyrinthine space as a path of exploration and research. Incarnations of a principle of nature and spirituality, they seem to represent moments of immobility. In truth it is only an apparent inaction. The tree that is connected through the roots or the Bodhisattva that sits thinking, embody perhaps deeper forms of relationship with the World, more radical communication relationships”.

Cost of the operation: 1.2 million euros, 800 thousand of which made available by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, 400 thousand by the sponsor Ifis Bank. It was worth it? Comments will arrive shortly, for now we’ll content ourselves with the photographs: