Press release
Vernissage: Saturday the 4th
of February, at 6.00 p.m., at the Umberto Veruda Gallery, Piazza Piccola 2,
Trieste, Italy (access via Piazza Unità walking throughout the main portico)
Exhibition's details: from 4th of
February until Sunday 5th March; from Monday to Saturday from 10.00 a.m. to
1.00 p.m. and from 5.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m., with the possibility of free guided
tours every Friday and Saturday from 5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. (bookings available
at info@iodeposito.org or via B#SIDE WAR
App).
Infoline: www.iodeposito.org;
www.bsidewar.org
In collaboration with the Municipality of Trieste
and the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, IoDeposito Ngo is glad to present Memory
As A Living Matter / International Artists for a a re-interpretation of the war
object. The Vernissage will take place Saturday the 4th of February, at
6.00 p.m. at the Umberto Veruda Gallery (Trieste, Italy): for the occasion, a
talk with the artists. The exhibition will be available for free until Sunday
5th March in the prestigious location, from Monday to Saturday from 10.00 a.m.
to 1.00 p.m. and from 5.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m., with the possibility of free
guided tours every Friday and Saturday from 5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. (bookings
available at info@iodeposito.org or via B#SIDE WAR
App).
The event belongs to the third edition of the
diffuse artistic and cultural Festival B#SIDE WAR, which is promoted by
IoDeposito through numerous italian and international events such as
exhibitions, conferences and research project (www.bsidewar.org).
The exhibition Memory As A Living Matter
proposes new interpretations of the war object by 10 international contemporary
artists, in an original concept of "artist's museography": only a few
pieces, made out of poor materials, essential and almost naked in their
exposure, but yet so powerful in their expression to unlock the universal
meanings, awakening the collective memory and bringing us in contact with the experience
of those who have lived the conflict. Between works composed of
"strong" materials - iron, cement, everyday items, ready made and
objets trouvé - and works composed instead of fragile materials, ineffable and
powerfully organic, that bleed to death and fade away under the eyes of the
visitor - paper, burned wood, ashes, graphite, egg shells, bread -, the meaning
that artists attach to the event of war becomes perceptual, immediate, it
brings us back to the sense of humanity, in the world of everyone's images,
where the archetypal realities speak a universal language that awakens the
legacies and the memories of all of us, echoing those latent legacies of the
conflicts that are stratified in our DNA.
Boris Bejas, one of the exhibition's artist,
argues «I am very interested in how the social crises interact with the
structure of everyday life: through the use of the spectator, art belongs to
all three time-lines -past, present and future». Playing a part in the
reinterpretation of the war object into contemporary artworks made with war
remains, and in artworks that materialise the unexpressed war heritages, the
user is immersed in a multi-focal perception of history.
Contacts:
Direction:
info@iodeposito.org
Press&Communication: daniela.madonna@iodeposito.org
