Exhibitions, Italy, Torino, 06 November 2013
Can the blink of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? "
So began Edward Norton Lorenz , American mathematician (1917-2008) , known for being the pioneer
Chaos Theory , during a conference held in 1972 at the New York Academy of Sciences, and
this was also the common thread that has pursued the curator of the exhibition in designing Sabrina Thin
Contemporary Art The Disasters - Time of Rebirth. In bad, but especially in the well, are the
and undervalued small changes that might trigger a domino effect that can bring down before and
then reborn , a social, economic, cultural and ecological .
In the month of November will be held in Turin , at the headquarters of the National University Library , a
exhibition , for now the only one of its kind in Italy , dedicated to the events catastrophic and dramatic
inexorably that are marking our time .
It 'clear that in this context, contemporary art, now distant from wanting to sublimate the beauty , it becomes a
important and novel vehicle to interpret the world around us . No more self-referential art that
moves according to the dictates , sometimes controversial , of the market, but an art that takes possession of its value
teaching and outreach. An art no longer considered as an end but as a means to serve the
the company itself.
What the event The Disasters aims to do is to use the vehicle of art to convey a precise
message of denunciation, but at the same time of hope , so that every person can become
aware that any "disaster" can and must be faced and overcome .
So began Edward Norton Lorenz , American mathematician (1917-2008) , known for being the pioneer
Chaos Theory , during a conference held in 1972 at the New York Academy of Sciences, and
this was also the common thread that has pursued the curator of the exhibition in designing Sabrina Thin
Contemporary Art The Disasters - Time of Rebirth. In bad, but especially in the well, are the
and undervalued small changes that might trigger a domino effect that can bring down before and
then reborn , a social, economic, cultural and ecological .
In the month of November will be held in Turin , at the headquarters of the National University Library , a
exhibition , for now the only one of its kind in Italy , dedicated to the events catastrophic and dramatic
inexorably that are marking our time .
It 'clear that in this context, contemporary art, now distant from wanting to sublimate the beauty , it becomes a
important and novel vehicle to interpret the world around us . No more self-referential art that
moves according to the dictates , sometimes controversial , of the market, but an art that takes possession of its value
teaching and outreach. An art no longer considered as an end but as a means to serve the
the company itself.
What the event The Disasters aims to do is to use the vehicle of art to convey a precise
message of denunciation, but at the same time of hope , so that every person can become
aware that any "disaster" can and must be faced and overcome .
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