Exhibitions, Italy, Vicenza, 22 November 2011
When, on the 26th and 27th November in Venice, the 54th International Art Exhibition comes to a close and the main artists ask themselves "What have we done?!?” the artist Monica Marioni from Vicenza will be having her say with a striking piece.
It's Italian art today GOATS! GOATS! GOATS!! , curated by Anna Caterina Bellati, is a project, the result of ideas which have come to maturity during her years as an artist, during which the quest for reference models and inspiration, for a standard that shapes Italian art in the contemporary field worldwide has been in vain.
The web exhibition is presented through a movie published on Marioni’s website during the closing day of 54 Venice Biennale, a show mounted in a hidden place, ideally linked to Italian Pavillion.
Marioni is not part of the controversy opposing arguments of curators, critics and artists included or excluded, but notes how the huge expansion of the initiative and the number of artists involved has clearly moved (once again, and even more this time) the meaning and attention away from the art works, advantaging the curatorial idea.
According to the artist this has not led to a new Salon des refusees, but to a collective work of art, a pyramid built by the many participants to their curator-pharaoh. Ultimately, what will remain will be the monument and its name, not the work of the individual artist.
So with It's Italian art today Goats! Goats! Goats!! (E’ l’arte italiana oggi CAPRE! CAPRE! CAPRE!!) Marioni shows us in a revealing flash her vision of the Italian art scene. With a touch of polemic strength entrusted to the technique in use, which moves outside the normal production of the artist, towards the methodologies used by many contemporary protagonists.
But the iconic figure of Mr. Sgarbi, the protagonist here, is not a negative one, quite the opposite. In the artist’s words <>
The real upshot is the profound reflection on the contemporary role of the work of art, as an object, whose value should not be limited to symbolism and meaning, but also include the absolute quality of composition and realization, following in the wake of the great masters, particularly the Italian masters.
Marioni has had many different exhibition experiences both in Italy and abroad, including the Ego installation, presented in 2009 at the Détournement Venise, a collateral event of the 53rd Biennale d’Arte of Venice; her personal exhibition at the Museo de Arte Italiana in Lima as part of the Italy-Peru economic and cultural forum in 2009 – her personal exhibition Ninfe in 2010 in Vicenza in collaboration with the "Vignato per l’Arte" Foundation by Oliver Orest Tschirky.
To date, Marioni’s work is handled by three independent curators, including the aforementioned Oliver Orest Tschirky, with exhibition projects being planned with each of them.
Links utili:
Artist's bio www.monicamarioni.com/index-1.html
CV artista www.monicamarioni.com/index-3.html
About curator:
http://www.lobodilattice.com/chi-muove-larte-carta-didentit%C3%A0- anna-caterina-bellati
http://www.exibart.com/profilo/autoriv2 persona_view.asp?id=2672
Info/Ufficio stampa: STUDIO MARIONI – Federico Barosco
Tel 0444-360538
Mob +39 3299423343
Mail marioni@monicamarioni.com
Marioni's dealers:
Gagliardi Gallery in San Gimignano (www.galleriagagliardi.com)
Art Channel Gallery in Beijing (artchannelgallery.com.cn)
It's Italian art today GOATS! GOATS! GOATS!! , curated by Anna Caterina Bellati, is a project, the result of ideas which have come to maturity during her years as an artist, during which the quest for reference models and inspiration, for a standard that shapes Italian art in the contemporary field worldwide has been in vain.
The web exhibition is presented through a movie published on Marioni’s website during the closing day of 54 Venice Biennale, a show mounted in a hidden place, ideally linked to Italian Pavillion.
Marioni is not part of the controversy opposing arguments of curators, critics and artists included or excluded, but notes how the huge expansion of the initiative and the number of artists involved has clearly moved (once again, and even more this time) the meaning and attention away from the art works, advantaging the curatorial idea.
According to the artist this has not led to a new Salon des refusees, but to a collective work of art, a pyramid built by the many participants to their curator-pharaoh. Ultimately, what will remain will be the monument and its name, not the work of the individual artist.
So with It's Italian art today Goats! Goats! Goats!! (E’ l’arte italiana oggi CAPRE! CAPRE! CAPRE!!) Marioni shows us in a revealing flash her vision of the Italian art scene. With a touch of polemic strength entrusted to the technique in use, which moves outside the normal production of the artist, towards the methodologies used by many contemporary protagonists.
But the iconic figure of Mr. Sgarbi, the protagonist here, is not a negative one, quite the opposite. In the artist’s words <
The real upshot is the profound reflection on the contemporary role of the work of art, as an object, whose value should not be limited to symbolism and meaning, but also include the absolute quality of composition and realization, following in the wake of the great masters, particularly the Italian masters.
Marioni has had many different exhibition experiences both in Italy and abroad, including the Ego installation, presented in 2009 at the Détournement Venise, a collateral event of the 53rd Biennale d’Arte of Venice; her personal exhibition at the Museo de Arte Italiana in Lima as part of the Italy-Peru economic and cultural forum in 2009 – her personal exhibition Ninfe in 2010 in Vicenza in collaboration with the "Vignato per l’Arte" Foundation by Oliver Orest Tschirky.
To date, Marioni’s work is handled by three independent curators, including the aforementioned Oliver Orest Tschirky, with exhibition projects being planned with each of them.
Links utili:
Artist's bio www.monicamarioni.com/index-1.html
CV artista www.monicamarioni.com/index-3.html
About curator:
http://www.lobodilattice.com/chi-muove-larte-carta-didentit%C3%A0- anna-caterina-bellati
http://www.exibart.com/profilo/autoriv2 persona_view.asp?id=2672
Info/Ufficio stampa: STUDIO MARIONI – Federico Barosco
Tel 0444-360538
Mob +39 3299423343
Mail marioni@monicamarioni.com
Marioni's dealers:
Gagliardi Gallery in San Gimignano (www.galleriagagliardi.com)
Art Channel Gallery in Beijing (artchannelgallery.com.cn)
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