There is now less than a month left until the opening of the show “This Is The End” which a group of artists promoted from below, finding, step by step, an increasingly wider network of collaborations, including that of Citizen which is the project’s media partner. The appointment is at Royal Palace of Monzain the conference room (next to the theater) from May 19th and until June 9thwith inauguration on Saturday 18th at 4.30pm.
The collective collects the works of Elisa Cella, Nicola Evangelisti, Nadia Galbiati, Roberto Ghezzi, Elena Ketra, Camilla Marinoni, Andrea Meregalli, Gabriele Micalizzi, Silvia Serenari, Matteo Suffrittiwhich they established for this purpose the cultural association And as a new reality promoting artistic initiatives and proposes in the title, the Doors song also present in the soundtrack of Apocalypse Now by Coppola: that film is in its DNA Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: two works, the artists recall, which “they make you think about‘horror, about madness and human psychology. In fact, the exhibition aims to be a cry proposed by the artists, who have always been sensitive to the vibrations that the world produces and custodians of their re-elaboration”.
This Is The End, the Monza exhibition and changes on the planet
This Is The End, they add, was born when the enthusiasm for the post-pandemic recovery was knocked down by the news of the invasion of Ukraine. “From that moment on, the awareness emerged that the world was changing very quickly. The confirmation came from a series of events that have overwhelmed the entire population: the financial crisis, two wars, the nuclear threat, the energy crisis, drought, floods, the dramatic increase in the world population and the arrival of artificial intelligence. All this has become part of an increasingly pressing problem climate changes and migrations of people fleeing from wars and poverty and the consequences that climate change is generating. Not a week goes by without the bulletin on feminicides and abuse is not updated. Women, in many countries, see their rights reduced or abolished. That naive girl promise of peace, prosperity, acquired rights, advanced civilization has been called into question“.
And then the works of the nine artists, with different paths, techniques and poetics, who address the different themes with different media and tackling the different chapters with their own sensitivity, each corroborated by a text in the catalog by an expert in each sector to whom the works refer.
This Is The End, the Monza exhibition that “tells the abyss of the “non-judgemental” world
“This is the End is, despite its title, l‘opposite of what we might expect – he claims Simona Bartolena art historian and critic who wrote an accompanying text to the exhibition – It is not a tragic exhibitionwhich insists on melodramatic iconography; is not trivial, in any case, presenting works that always choose the most effective and intelligent way (even when it could be the most difficult) to get to the point. It is an exhibition that does not judge, but that suggests reasons for reflectionan exhibition that uses a composed and never shouty tone, sometimes even light (lightness is a beautiful thing!), but which comes, precisely for this reason, like a punch in the stomach”.
From 19 May to 9 June 2024
Villa Reale Conference Room – Viale Brianza, 1 Monza
Inauguration: Saturday 18 May at 4.30pm
Panel discussion: Saturday 25 May at 4pm
Presentation by Simona Bartolena
From Wednesday to Friday: 10:00 – 16:00
Saturdays and holidays: 10.30am-6.30pm
Free entry
