Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani (Milan | Lucca) wishes you a lovely

summer break!

The Gallery will be closed from August 13 to August 28, 2022.

We are pleased to announce that the artist Giuseppe Stampone has won the national award PAC (Plan for Contemporary Art) from the Ministry of Culture 2022 with a museum from Abruzzo: Museolaboratorio d'arte contemporanea "ex manifattura tabacchi," Città Sant'Angelo (PE).

PAC2021

Prometeo Gallery is pleased to announce the partecipation of Ivan Moudov at the next edition of Manifesta 14, Prishtina 2022.

22.07.2022 - 30.10.2022

www.manifesta14.org

Parla del tuo Villaggio is, after Home Sweet Home–esplorazioni dell’abitare, the second chapter of a long-term research on the theme of dwelling that will accompany the artistic programming of KORA-Centro del Contemporaneo for the coming years. The exhibition, curated by Paolo Mele and Claudio Zecchi, is the first of three installations that will follow one another throughout the year with the intention of integrating a more complex vision through a broad and plural body of voices that will dirim through different formats such as masterclasses, talks, projections and performances. If the chapter on the house was a way to question the instituting dimension of a Center for Contemporary Production and Research, the chapter on the Village is instead a way to reflect on what it means to make cultural production in a liminal area, a small town, involving it in all its meshes.

The public art workshop held at KORA in the summer of 2021, coordinated by the artist duo Bianco-Valente, was the lever to begin systematizing a broader reflection on the potential offered by a village that seeks to transform its limitations into strengths.

The result of the workshop was a mural titled A chi appartieni collectively signed by the participants and created at the Corigliano d'Otranto-Melpignano-Castrignano de' Greci Comprehensive Institute and the permanent work Parla del tuo Villaggio by Bianco-Valente.

This, an LED inscription installed on the pediment of the west entrance of Palazzo de' Gualtieriis, gives the title to the entire exhibition while also representing a statement with respect to the intention to open and make the cultural proposal organic within the territory in which it operates.

The writing takes its cue from a quote by Russian poet Lev Tolstòj that reads in full, "If you want to be universal, speak of your village". This phrase is meant to state that taking care of a small town located in an ideal marginal line means taking care of human life in its essence and extremes and, therefore, also of its culture.

If the title of the exhibition is inspired by the work of Bianco-Valente, two texts, on the other hand, structure its theoretical basis: Realizable Utopias (1974) by Yona Friedman and Beyond the Floating Islands (1985) by Eugenio Barba, which intend to investigate the possible utopian thrust that resides in small groups, in "marginal movements," and in the strength of collective (or collectively activated) work.

Eugenio Barba writes: "[...] This country has long appeared to me as an archipelago. And its islands like floating islands. I used a historical comparison: a minor episode in New World history tells of men who abandoned the safety of the mainland to lead a precarious life of floating islands. To remain true to their desires, they built villages and towns, or meager dwellings with a fistful of land for a vegetable garden, there where it seemed impossible to build and cultivate anything: on the water and in the currents. These were men who, either out of personal necessity or because they were forced to, seemed destined to be antisocial and managed to create other models of sociality. The floating island is the earthly encounter that can get lost underfoot, but that can allow for encounter, for overcoming personal limitations.

But beyond floating islands, what exists? What or who does one encounter?".

Thus, the floating islands are a kind of utopia that, in Yona Friedman's words, we could precisely define as realizable: "believing in a utopia and being a realist at the same time is not a contradiction, "a utopia is, par excellence, realizable" provided that the necessary collective consensus is obtained because a utopia imposed by force is no longer such".

In continuity with the previous exhibition, Speak of Your Village will also run for one year: July 21, 2022-June 2023.

The first exhibition will last until November 18, 2022

Artists:

Bianco-Valente, Filippo Berta, Carlos Casas, Francesco Cavaliere, Luigi Coppola, Giuseppe DeMattia, Alessandra Eramo,Claudia Losi, Theodoulos Polyvioue Alfatih, Andrea Nacciarriti, EnzoUmbaca, Marco Maria Zanin.

Artists collective mural:

Grazia Amelia Bellitta, Paolo Bini, Alice Caracciolo, Alice Di Nanna, Elena Eugeni, Sara Fiorentino,Rebecca Fuso, Nicola Guastamacchia, Vincenzo Luchena, Mariantonietta Clotilde Palasciano,Rossana Viola, Apo Yaghmourian.

Fondazione MACC, in collaboration with Prometeo Gallert Ida Pisani, is pleased to announce Dulce bellum inexpertis. War is sweet to those who have never experienced it, a group exhibition that welcomes the works from artist who stood up on the international scene for their research on political and social issues. From July 17 to September 25, 2022, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Calasetta (SU) shows the works of Filippo Berta, Zehra Doğan, Regina José Galindo, Edson Luli, Rosanna Rossi e Santiago Sierra.

POSTPRODUCTION, ART STAYS FESTIVAL, 2022

Directors and curators: Jernej Forbici and Marika Vicari

Opening weekend: 7 July - 10 July 2022

Dates: 7 July - 18 September 2022

 Art Stays turns 20

 On July 7, the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Art Stays Festival of Contemporary Art begins. It has been bringing to Ptuj since 2003, the best that Slovenian and foreign contemporary artists have to offer and has featured a number of promising young artists, as well as big names, such as Ai Weiwei, Yoko Ono, Monira Al Qadiri, Gilbert & George, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Edward Burtynsky, Robin Meier, Ivan Navarro, Allora & Calzadilla, Koen Vanmechelen, Hannah Collins, Ilona Nemeth, Jordi Alcaraz, Perino & Vele, Fernando Prats , Roberto Pugliese, Michele Spanghero, Tiffany Chung, Gigi Scaria, Regina Jose Galindo, Grace Weir and many others. Every year, many artists, curators, musicians and gallerists respond to the invitation of the directors to dialogue and travel through a variety of current topics. Today, Art Stays is one of the most important presentations of contemporary, especially fine arts in Slovenia and in this part of Europe, and has become a reference event for many international galleries, museums, foundations and, of course, artists.

The 20th edition of Art Stays is entitled POST-PRODUCTION and has two main thematic threads, which are interconnected. The first strand focuses on the 20-year history of the festival, which over the years has traversed very different themes in contemporary art, from relationships, politics, nature, the fragility of society and materials, sound and silence, and last year, structure.

In the first section, at the Galerija mesta Ptuj (Ptuj City Gallery), we will present works from previous editions of Art Stays, because we see the anniversary year as an opportunity and a responsibility to analyse the work of the past 20 years and to outline new directions for the development of the festival and its products, towards continuity and an ever greater implementation of Art Stays in the image of the local community and its traditions, by means of "post-production".

The exhibition Postproduction I, involves also the most 'iconic' artists and multidisciplinary works that have marked the development of the festival. Among them are installations, photographs, paintings, videos, documentation by: Marko Batista, Lynn Book, Joseph Beuys, BridA, Nemanja Cvijanović, Maitha Demithan, Jarmila Džuppova, Dušan Fišer, Regina José Galindo, Interno3 (Manuel Frara), Jaša, Matthias Langer, Zul Mahmod, Robin Meier, Noriko Obara, Yoko Ono, Perino & Vele, Fernando Prats, Laszlo Laszlo Revesz, Kimitake Sato, Marek Schovanek and Santiago Sierra.                        A selection of works from the current exhibition was hosted and presented last spring in the prestigious Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Galerija Božidar Jakac in Kostanjevica na Krki.

The programme, directed and curated by Jernej Forbici and Marika Vicari, was created in collaboration with the present and invited artists: Felipe Aguila (CHL), Marko Batista (SVN), Janet Bellotto (CAN), Gabrijel Berlič (SVN), Joseph Beuys (DEU), Lynn Book (USA), Beti Bricelj (SVN), BridA (SVN), Costantino Ciervo (DEU / ITA), Riccardo Costantini (ITA), Nemanja Cvijanović (CRO), Ben Darrah (CAN), Leo Ferdinand Demetz (ITA), Maitha Demithan (UAE), Jarmila Džuppova (SVK), Đasper i Đons (SVN), Johann Feilacher(AUT), Dušan Fišer (SVN), Pavel Forman (CZE), Regina Jose Galindo (GTM), Michelangelo Galliani (ITA), Irene Sanchez Garcia (ESP), Resi Girardello (ITA), Bojan Golčar (SVN), Toru Hamada (JPN), Julia Hofstetter (AUT), Interno3 (Manuel Frara)(ITA), Jaša (SVN), Robert Jurak (SVN), Stojan Kerbeler (SVN), Matthias Langer (DEU), Polona Maher (SVN), Zul Mahmod (SGP), Lech Majewski (POL), CREATIVE LABEL MOVEMENT - Simone Pucci, Manuele Petrucci, Riccardo Schippa (ITA), Muzikačaka (Sara Korošec) (SVN), Nicolo Masiero Sgrinzatto (ITA), Robin Meier (CHE / FRA), Igor Molin (ITA), Manfred Moorkamp (DEU), Noriko Obara (JPN), Yoko Ono (USA/JPN), Perino & Vele (ITA), Alex Pinna (ITA), Tomaž Plavec (SVN), Mark Požlep (SVN), Fernando Prats (CHL), Tobia Ravá (ITA), Laszlo Laszlo Revesz (HUN) Marika Ricchi (ITA), Tim Roeloffs (HOL), Kimitake Sato (JPN), Olga Schigal (RUS), Marek Schovanek (CAN / CZE), Joachim Seinfeld (DEU), Santiago Sierra (ESP), Tanja Špenko (SVN), Maruša Štibelj (SVN) Andrea Tagliapietra (ITA), Jakob Tolstrup (DNK), Transversal Project (Erika Vicari) (ITA), Verena Fanny Trausch (ITA / DEU), Valeria Vaccaro (ITA), Elisabeth Wedenig (AUT), Alice Zanin (ITA)

International galleries and institutions: Galerie Joan Prats, Barcelona, Cris Contini, London, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Fondazione Bonotto, Molvena, KAOS Festival, Kranj, Romberg, Latina, Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani, Milan, Punto Sull'Arte, Varese, Galleria Anna Marra, Rome, Galleria Paola Simondi, Turin. 

The complete program is available at www.artstays.si.