UNCOMMON PLACES an accelerationist aesthetics

UNCOMMON PLACES

LUCA CAMPIGOTTO - OLAF OTTO BECKER - DAVIDE BRAMANTE -
JULIANE EIRICH - ANDREA GALVANI - HIROYUKI MASUYAMA
REGINE PETERSEN - ALVARO SANCHEZ-MONTAÑES
project by Manon Comerio
curated by Camilla Boemio

Palazzo da Schio
Via Capitano G. Sella 4 – Schio, Vicenza
dal 15 aprile al 15 maggio 2016/from April 15 to May 15, 2016

Palazzo da Schio, an unusual context but one overflowing with history and fascination, has become the venue for an analytical show resulting from the interaction between the project's originator, Manon Comerio, and thecurator-theoretician Camilla Boemio. The show aims at investigating the natural and urban landscape in another dimension: that of the imagination in a state of aesthetic acceleration. An imagination that, in the face of nature's display, searches for nothing from itself, nor does it search for a confirmation of its own certainties, but highlights ways for integrating multiple visions. We are living in an age of time without time, one in which images are superimposed to recount disorderly landscapes from which emerge parallel stories, vernacular elements, and allusions to geometrical-temporal aesthetic constructions. The hendiadys of Being and Time, to which Martin Heidegger had devoted his 1927 masterpiece, today seems to reveal itself in the disturbing form of an endless being without time. The legitimate child of the acceleration of historybegun with the Industrial revolution and by the French Revolution, thephenomenon of urgency was promoted, at a theoretical level, by theEnlightenment's enthusiasm for a future as the realisation of projects foremancipation and improvement. All the same, our postmodern age, one that has in fact stopped believing in the future, has not stopped hurrying, and has given life to a wholly self-referential version of urgency: a nihilistic version of it because it has been emptied of projects for universal emancipation and the promise of colonising the future.
The process of transcending the present is partly undertaken by our exhibition, with the narrative supplied by multifaceted works consisting of different scenarios: from the Broken Line and Ilulissat series by Olaf Otto Becker, to Regine Petersen with Find a Fallen Star, Luca Campigotto with a selection of landscape extracted from his well-known series, Davide Bramante's Saint Petersburg, the works specifically made for Italy by the Spaniard Alvaro Sanchez Montañes, a series of iconic works by Andrea Galvani, Hiroyuki Masuyama with a site-specific installation, and the German Juliane Eirich with a selection from her series Korea Diary and Itoshima.

Camilla Boemio è la curatrice di Diminished Capacity il Primo PadiglioneNazionale della Nigeria alla 15°.International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia/Camilla Boemio was the curator of Diminished Capacity the first national pavilion of Nigeria at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, the Venice Biennale.


Orari/Opening Hours:
Martedì al Venerdì dalle 10 alle 18 /Tuesday to Friday from 10a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sabato e Domenica dalle 10 alle 19/Saturday and Sunday, from10 p.m. to 7 p.m.