I am not familiar with the Via Emilia: perhaps I travelled on it a few times as a child.
It is a name that for me evokes geometries: a straight line that crosses through the trees, those trees of the Po Valley, orderly, symmetrical, that form straight horizontal and vertical lines.
My Via Emilia is like a geometric pattern.
(Paolo Ventura)
Paolo Ventura’s project is part of the group exhibition 2016. Nuove esplorazioni, curated by Diane Dufour, Elio Grazioli and Walter Guadagnini.
The exhibition originates and develops in relation to Explorations along the Via Emilia (1986), with the aim to describe how the Via Emilia has changed over the last thirty years and how the way of representing it has changed too.
For this research, the festival commissioned seven contemporary authors representing a new generation: Alain Bublex, Stefano Graziani, Antonio Rovaldi, Sebastian Stumpf, Davide Tranchina, Paolo Ventura, and Lorenzo Vitturi. Their task was to give an account of the Via Emilia today.
Paolo Ventura was born in Milan in 1968. His work has been exhibited in museums and private galleries worldwide, including the Italian Pavilion of the 2011 Venice Biennale.
His work is held in varius collections including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Library of Congress in Washington, MACRO Contemporary Museum of Art in Rome, MART Modern and Contemporary Art Museum in Rovereto, , Phillips Collection and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.
7 May 10.30 am, Teatro Cavallerizza
2016. New explorations
Diane Dufour, Elio Grazioli and Walter Guadagnini talk with Alain Bublex, Stefano Graziani, Antonio Rovaldi, Sebastian Stumpf, Davide Tranchina, Paolo Ventura, Lorenzo Vitturi
booksigning to follow
8 May 2 pm, Chiostri di San Pietro
ASK THE ARTIST: 2016. New explorations
The artists Alain Bublex, Stefano Graziani, Antonio Rovaldi, Sebastian Stumpf, Davide Tranchina, Paolo Ventura, Lorenzo Vitturi, will answer at questions by public
25 June, 6.30 pm, Chiostri di San Pietro
2016. New explorations guided tour with the curator Elio Grazioli
Chiostri di San Pietro
via Emilia San Pietro, 44/c
42121 Reggio Emilia
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