5 encounters with the curators

starting 27 October at 6.30 pm

A new edition of Spot!, a rendez-vous at cocktail hour offering a guide to the appreciation and interpretation of a work of art, a theme or an artist in the exhibition, is returning to accompany the  16 Art Quadriennale. Different Times, Different Myths exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, offering visitors a unique opportunity to explore and understand the themes, languages and leading players in young Italian art "straight from the horse's mouth" by meeting with the curators.

The programme comprises five encounters with five pairs of curators. We kick off on Thursday 27 October with Luigia Lonardelli and Simone Ciglia, who will be presenting their section entitled I would prefer not to/Preferirei di no, a selection of artists whose work exemplifies a widespread approach to the production of art today based on rejecting and resisting codified identity. The rest of the programme includes:

Thursday 17 November at 6.30 pm

Michele D'Aurizio and Simone Frangi

Michele D'Aurizio with Hey, You Guys! discusses portraiture as a language through which we can explore the most recent developments in our art, expressing a combination of the individual and social spheres.

Simone Frangi in Italian Oresteia turns his gaze on the context of our country in its cultural, political and economic aspects, with a choral and analogical revisitation of certain elements in one of Pasolini's film works.

Thursday 1 December at 6.30 pm

Luigi Fassi and Cristiana Perrella

Luigi Fassi with Democracy in America urges us to explore certain aspects of Italy's contemporary history in greater depth through a revisitation of de Tocqueville's thought.

Cristiana Perrella in The Second Time identifies a group of artists who share an interest in the use of materials full of stories already experienced, which they reinterpret in unexpected combinations on the basis of a transformational poetic.

Wednesday 14 December at 6.30 pm

Matteo Lucchetti and Marta Papini

Matteo Lucchetti in De Rerum Rurale focuses on the countryside as a real and speculative space in which to describe and to rethink the system of relations between the natural and man-made environments also in their historical depth.

Marta Papini in The State of Things proposes a setting in progress in which the rotation of very different artists develops a space for dialogue both among their individual paths and between those paths and the public.

Thursday 5 January at 6.30 pm

Luca Lo Pinto and Denis Viva

Luca Lo Pinto in With Your Eyes Closed, Your Eyes Are Astonishingly Open explores the themes of time, identity and memory interpreted in an uninterrupted metamorphosis within the relationship between the individual and the community.

Denis Viva in Peripherals identifies polycentrism as an original structural condition of our territory which also permeates our visual culture.

info

meeting point in the rotunda at 6.30 pm (we recommend getting there quarter of an hour early)

Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale, 194, Rome

the fee for taking part in the activity is included in the price of admission to the exhibition (a special Open Quadriennale ticket costing  € 8.00 admits students of any kind to the Quadriennale as many times as they like until the exhibition closes)

laboratoriodarte@palaexpo.it