Contemporary: a look at Matera

 

 

The Sassi district of Matera, the town clinging to a stone ravine with houses dug into the ravine, a place that has always been inhabited, where human traces dating back to the Paleolithic can still be seen, is subject to contemporary fascination and, thanks to its new splendor .

From November 24 to January 12, international contemporary art, in all its languages and nuances, is integrated into this unique urban fabric with the Del contemporaneo exhibition.

Thanks to the SoutHeritage Foundation, local and international synergies have been activated which have allowed the realization of this important collective where you can see many new works for Italy as well as works from the recent Biennale, with four of the twenty guests present at the Venetian event.

Interesting is the choice to create an “extended exhibition” which leaves the visitor the freedom to build their own path, a walk in the city to rediscover places that have sometimes been transformed.

The exhibition project, organized by Aneglo Bianco, takes place through different spaces, mainly at the headquarters of the Foundation, where different works can be used for techniques, supports and messages, such as the video "allusive Hammering Out" by Monica Bonvicini. a hand that intends to hammer a wall until it destroys a part - or the social reflection to which Barbara Kruger pushes us with the black and white shot You Are The Perfect Crime.

Stimulating the discovery of the installations that cover the rooms of the Domenico Ridola National Archaeological Museum, a convent building where, alongside and among the finds from different prehistoric eras, we encounter (it should be said)  works in a necessarily interactive mode like Devoirs (colored paper installation) by Nathalie Rao.

The staging of the stone church of San Pietro Barisano is also particularly suggestive, where the sobriety of the cult building seems to be the natural resonance chamber of the different media used by the artists.

Blocked Off With Interferes, an installation by Lawrence Weiner, a master in transforming the "idea" into concrete work, but even more Goats and Sheep, a video by Gary Hill, which combines archaeological evidence with a new perception of spatial context in which it is found.

The community appreciates it because it allows us to meet artists of international caliber, sometimes more appreciated abroad than in Italy - think of the Venetian Bonvicini - but it is also recommended for those who do not like contemporary and who want to discover the city through new perspectives.

 

Antonietta Ulivieri Moretti      (15:44 - 04 Sun 2007)

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