L’Aquila – After five months of constant attention from the visitors of MAXXI L’Aquila, the appointments continue to discover Night Diary, Of dreams, nightmares and imaginary bestiaries, a collective exhibition curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi with Chiara Bertini and Fanny Borel who from 1 December populates the rooms of Palazzo Ardinghelli with works by thirteen international artists, born in the last thirty years of the last century, who propose a common imaginative, ironic or disturbing approach and who, in the works presented, invite us to live dreams and explore the nightmares of the present.
Tomorrow, Saturday 4 May from 5pm to 7pm, the round table, “Views from the margin, will be held in the multipurpose room of the Museum. Rethinking Scanno through photographic practice”, (free entry while places last): an opportunity to reflect on the black and white photographs of the village of Scanno from the Franco and Serena Pomilio Collection, created by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mario Giacomelli, Hilde Lotz-Bauer, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Mimmo Jodice and Ferdinando Scianna, and which in the exhibition layout are placed in relation with a series of new works from the Giuseppe Stampone project and Scanno’s photographs from the Franco and Serena Pomilio collection. The meeting, the first stage of an in-depth study that will continue in the coming months with workshops and other moments of restitution, proposes an approach to these images with a look from the margin so that the women portrayed, the environments, the solemn black and white, accompany us in the present of the internal areas, beyond a nostalgic and anthropocentric response.
Alessio De Stefano, Elisa Genovesi, Francesca Muzzarelli, Claudia Pajewski, Francesco Pezzuti, Franco Pomilio and Giuseppe Stampone spoke during the meeting. On Friday 10 May from 2pm to 6pm, the MAXXI L’Aquila will host the Supervising the body workshop. Artificiality as a proxy for (non)human survival by Agnes Questionmark, one of the artists on display with her alter ego, the Draco Piscis sculpture, which testifies to her research on homo aquaticus – aquatic creature with a changing identity and shape fluid – as a reflection on the sharing of ecosystems between different species, on the cycles of nature. Agnes Questionmark invites us to question the identity that the artist lives and investigates as a fluid, changeable, transforming concept.
During the workshop his investigation on the interspecies dimension will focus on the dynamics of man’s evolutionary destiny and on the complex balance of his relationship with science and technology with a reference to the reflections on the politics of control of the artist and theorist Hito Steyerl in dialogue with the theories of Posthumanism by Rosi Braidotti. To participate in the workshop it is necessary to register on the maxxilaquila.art website by Monday 6 May. Finally, on Sunday 12 May, at 5pm, a special guided tour of Palazzo Ardinghelli and a complete immersion in the works of Diario Notturno is scheduled. Of dreams, nightmares and imaginary bestiaries, in dialogue with the baroque architecture of the Museum: an invitation to travel between past and present through contemporary art and architecture. (Places subject to availability with online booking on the maxxilaquila.art website).
Meanwhile, Wednesday 8 May at 7pm last appointment at the MAXXI L’Aquila with the exhibition “The cinematographic work between restoration and conservation”, created in collaboration with the Cinematographic Institute of L’Aquila.
“La Lanterna Magica” ETS and curated by Fabrizio Pompei. The film I Vinti by Michelangelo Antonioni will be screened in the Aviary Room of the Museum, with its story of the crisis of post-war European youth in France, Italy and Great Britain. The Cinema Archive Center of L’Aquila collaborated on the evening and participated, with the production company Minerva Pictures of Rome, the National Cinema Museum of Turin and the Cineteca Nazionale of Rome, in the restoration operation of the film. The screening will be introduced by Mirko Lino, professor of Cinema History at the University of L’Aquila. Free entry while places last with online booking on maxxilaquila.art).
