Exhibition, Italy, Venezia, 21 May 2023
Skills: Meeting place, Critic, Journalist, Computer / Printer
Punto Zero. An object that wanted to change the world, is an exhibition curated by the students
of the School for Curatorial Studies Venice. This event has been created in collaboration with
Video Sound Art Milan, a festival and production centre of contemporary art, Coordinated by
Laura Lamonea (artistic director and curator) and Thomas Ba (curator). The students have
developed a curatorial project investigating the invisible qualities of objects. Through installations,
sculptures, sound, and site-specific performative events, the visitor will have the opportunity to
confront the nature of the objects that surround us. The exhibition can be visited between the 13 and 21 of May at Istituto secondario di primo grado Pier Fortunato Calvi, located between the Giardini and the Arsenale of the Venice Biennale.
An object is a physical entity, that in its tangibility, contains values, narratives and memories. It is a medium but also an origin, a starting point for narrating and remembering a punto zero. The space of the school symbolizes the place of our first encounters with socialization, and therefore it is where hierarchies are set and experienced. Reflecting in this way the dynamics of society. Resembling a punto zero where power relations get established through the arrangement of desks, chairs, and other objects.
The objects are charged with both individual and collective memory. They become, through the
artists’ interventions, tools to reactivate these memories and evoke new ways of relating to them.
The desk, the blackboard, the bell, are therefore protagonists of the performances. Inviting the
visitors to reflect upon the power of objects to create relations with society and individuals.
Punto Zero is an intervention that aims to involve all visitors in the exhibition by welcoming
contributions such as images, texts, sentences and drawings that summarize what was or is an
object that changed the world. Creating an archive, all of these contributions will be set up in a
dedicated room dealing with the curatorial research that the students have been investigating in
the past months.
Punto zero is an object, any. But which object wanted to change the world?
The artists participating in the exhibition are: Alvise Bittente, Oli Bonzanigo, Ludovico Colombo, Marilisa Cosello, Lea Pedri Stocco, Pierluigi Scandiuzzi, Lorenzo Servetti, Davide Zulli.
Send your contribution to curatorialschool@gmail.com by May 9th. We will display your intervention within the exhibition. You can send images, sentences, photographs, and poems, as long as they fit on an A4 sheet. Furthermore, it will be possible to bring the chosen object on display if its dimensions are small.
INFORMATION
13 – 21 May
Pier Fortunato Calvi Secondary School
Castello, 1808, 30122 Venice
Opening hours: 2.30pm – 7pm
Opening: Saturday 13 May, 17:00
Punto Zero. An object that wanted to change the world Final Exhibition by the 30th Course in Curatorial Practice and Contemporary Arts School for Curatorial Studies Venice School for Curatorial Studies is an experimental school that trains young people to become art curators, active in Venice since 2004.
The exhibition has been curated by the students of the 30th Course in Curatorial Practice and
Contemporary Art of the School for Curatorial Studies Venice: Rebecca Canavesi, Carlotta
Carosso, Tommaso Carradori, Nora Criado Diaz, Sofia Fongaro, Paola Lavra, Elena Lenzi, Lisa
Angelica Manente, Ada Maroni, Beatrice Mercanti, Luz Otxoa, Lucrezia Odorici, Claudia Palli,
Denise Patrascan, Adriana Pizzo, Gaia Serafini, Marco Tiberi, Marilisa Vanin.
Scuola Secondaria di I° Grado Statale
Pier Fortunato Calvi, Istituto Comprensivo
Dante Alighieri Via Garibaldi 1808, 30122 Venice
Opening times: 14:30 – 19:00
Opening: Saturday 13 May, ore 17:00
of the School for Curatorial Studies Venice. This event has been created in collaboration with
Video Sound Art Milan, a festival and production centre of contemporary art, Coordinated by
Laura Lamonea (artistic director and curator) and Thomas Ba (curator). The students have
developed a curatorial project investigating the invisible qualities of objects. Through installations,
sculptures, sound, and site-specific performative events, the visitor will have the opportunity to
confront the nature of the objects that surround us. The exhibition can be visited between the 13 and 21 of May at Istituto secondario di primo grado Pier Fortunato Calvi, located between the Giardini and the Arsenale of the Venice Biennale.
An object is a physical entity, that in its tangibility, contains values, narratives and memories. It is a medium but also an origin, a starting point for narrating and remembering a punto zero. The space of the school symbolizes the place of our first encounters with socialization, and therefore it is where hierarchies are set and experienced. Reflecting in this way the dynamics of society. Resembling a punto zero where power relations get established through the arrangement of desks, chairs, and other objects.
The objects are charged with both individual and collective memory. They become, through the
artists’ interventions, tools to reactivate these memories and evoke new ways of relating to them.
The desk, the blackboard, the bell, are therefore protagonists of the performances. Inviting the
visitors to reflect upon the power of objects to create relations with society and individuals.
Punto Zero is an intervention that aims to involve all visitors in the exhibition by welcoming
contributions such as images, texts, sentences and drawings that summarize what was or is an
object that changed the world. Creating an archive, all of these contributions will be set up in a
dedicated room dealing with the curatorial research that the students have been investigating in
the past months.
Punto zero is an object, any. But which object wanted to change the world?
The artists participating in the exhibition are: Alvise Bittente, Oli Bonzanigo, Ludovico Colombo, Marilisa Cosello, Lea Pedri Stocco, Pierluigi Scandiuzzi, Lorenzo Servetti, Davide Zulli.
Send your contribution to curatorialschool@gmail.com by May 9th. We will display your intervention within the exhibition. You can send images, sentences, photographs, and poems, as long as they fit on an A4 sheet. Furthermore, it will be possible to bring the chosen object on display if its dimensions are small.
INFORMATION
13 – 21 May
Pier Fortunato Calvi Secondary School
Castello, 1808, 30122 Venice
Opening hours: 2.30pm – 7pm
Opening: Saturday 13 May, 17:00
Punto Zero. An object that wanted to change the world Final Exhibition by the 30th Course in Curatorial Practice and Contemporary Arts School for Curatorial Studies Venice School for Curatorial Studies is an experimental school that trains young people to become art curators, active in Venice since 2004.
The exhibition has been curated by the students of the 30th Course in Curatorial Practice and
Contemporary Art of the School for Curatorial Studies Venice: Rebecca Canavesi, Carlotta
Carosso, Tommaso Carradori, Nora Criado Diaz, Sofia Fongaro, Paola Lavra, Elena Lenzi, Lisa
Angelica Manente, Ada Maroni, Beatrice Mercanti, Luz Otxoa, Lucrezia Odorici, Claudia Palli,
Denise Patrascan, Adriana Pizzo, Gaia Serafini, Marco Tiberi, Marilisa Vanin.
Scuola Secondaria di I° Grado Statale
Pier Fortunato Calvi, Istituto Comprensivo
Dante Alighieri Via Garibaldi 1808, 30122 Venice
Opening times: 14:30 – 19:00
Opening: Saturday 13 May, ore 17:00
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