vice versa

vice versa

Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

October 24, 2013

1 June–24 November 2013

Tese delle Vergini
Arsenale
Venice
Italy

www.viceversa2013.org
www.moussepublishing.com                                                      

vice versa
edited by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
published by Mousse Publishing


With texts by Marco Belpoliti, Stefano Catucci, Stefano Chiodi, Andrea Cortellessa, Gabriele Guercio, Riccardo Venturi and Elena Volpato

vice versa explores the complexity that characterizes Italian contemporary art. Following Giorgio Agamben’s concept where in order to interpret Italian culture it is necessary to identify a “series of polarized conjugate concepts,” Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, curator of the exhibition, has chosen seven binomials around which the show and the catalogue are structured: body/history, view/place, sound/silence, perspective/surface, familiar/strange, system/fragment and tragedy/comedy. vice versa is divided into seven chapters—one for each pairing—that present the work of two artists with a critical text, a wide selection of images of the works, technical specifications and information on the artists’ research.

Artists
Francesco Arena, Massimo Bartolini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Elisabetta Benassi, Flavio Favelli, Luigi Ghirri, Piero Golia, Francesca Grilli, Marcello Maloberti, Fabio Mauri, Giulio Paolini, Marco Tirelli, Luca Vitone, Sislej Xhafa

The Italian Pavilion is realized by the Directorate-General for the Landscape, Fine Arts, Architecture and Contemporary Art (PaBAAC) of the Ministry for Cultural Assets, Activities and for Tourism through the Architectural and Contemporary Art.

PaBAAC
General Direction for the Landscape, Fine Arts, Architecture and Contemporary Art promote the contemporary cultural heritage knowledge and preservation, new art languages diffusion, landscape quality and protection, architectural and urban quality, cultural heritage promotion and the development and support to all the expressions of contemporary art creativity in Italy and abroad.
Maddalena Ragni, General Director – General Direction for the Landscape, Fine Arts, Architecture and Contemporary Art (PaBAAC) and commissioner of the Italian Pavilion
Head of Service for Contemporary Architecture and Art—Maria Grazia Bellisario

Press contacts
Italian press office
Maria Bonmassar: M +39 335 49 03 11 / maria.bonmassar [​at​] gmail.com
Ludovica Solari: M +39 335 577 17 37 / ludovicasolari [​at​] gmail.com 

International press office
Rhiannon Pickles: M +31 (0) 6158 21202 / rhiannon [​at​] picklespr.com
Maria Cristina Giusti: M +44 (0) 792 581 0607 / cristina [​at​] picklespr.com 

Communications – Directorate General PaBAAC / MiBAC 
Alessandra Pivetti: M +39 366 64 82 897 / alessandra.pivetti [​at​] beniculturali.it
Gaia Gallotta: T +39 06 58 43 48 16 / gaia.gallotta [​at​] beniculturali.it

 

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