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We are super excited to announce the exhibition of”Resolution 46/230” by F**g Ahmed, curated by Farah Piryie, in the Uni...
11/09/2023

We are super excited to announce the exhibition of”Resolution 46/230” by F**g Ahmed, curated by Farah Piryie, in the United Nation Palace in Geneva.
A big thank you to and to the collectors who made it possible. If you are in Geneva go and see the magical works bn of the Lord of bn the Carpets!

09/09/2023

ANIMAL POWER!
curated by Ursula Hawlitschka
Sept 7 – October 28, 2023
Montoro12 Contemporary Brussels, Avenue Van Volxem 316, Brussels

ANIMAL POWER!curated by Ursula Hawlitschka📅 Sept 7 – October 28, 2023Avenue Van Volxem 316📌The exhibition is part of Bru...
07/09/2023

ANIMAL POWER!
curated by Ursula Hawlitschka
📅 Sept 7 – October 28, 2023
Avenue Van Volxem 316

📌The exhibition is part of Brussels Gallery Weekend with special opening hours on Sept. 7-10, 2023:
Thur, Sept. 7, h.5-9pm (vernissage)
Fri, Sept. 8, h.11-7pm
Sat, Sept. 9, h.11-7pm
Sun, Sept. 10, h.11-6pm

Feauturing: Hanien Conradie (South Africa), Gustafsson & Haapoja (Finland, NYC), Kate Javens (NYC) Hartmut Kiewert (Germany)
Maximilian Prüfer (Germany), ROA (Belgium), Wade Schuman (NYC), Vanessa von Zitzewitz (Germany, living in Monaco), Janice Wright Cheney (Canada)

📷 Hanien Conradie, “TOVER LAND”, [Tr. Magical Land], 2023, detail.
9 Works:
Natural Ochre and Gum Arabic on Black Slate With Leather Strap and Metal Hook, 35 x 27,5 cm

We take part to Enter Art Fair Copenaghen 24th - 27th August, 2023Main Section | Booth 49Lionel Dury, “Scriptas Digito D...
18/08/2023

We take part to Enter Art Fair Copenaghen
24th - 27th August, 2023
Main Section | Booth 49

Lionel Dury, “Scriptas Digito Dei”, 2022, Gravitational waves polarization, cordierite, laser engraving, 39x30cm.
and
Loredana Longo, “Carpet #52”, burnt sentence on handmade Persian carpet, 220x23cm

28/12/2022

WE WISH YOU HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Holiday Hours: the gallery will be closed from December 24, 2022 until January 2023
Our current exhibition, PERSEVERANCE III, will be extended until January 14th, 2023!

Thank you all for joining the opening of PERSEVERANCE III, curated by Stefan Pollak.And special thanks to the artists Ba...
19/11/2022

Thank you all for joining the opening of PERSEVERANCE III, curated by Stefan Pollak.
And special thanks to the artists Barbara Leclercq, Lionel Dury, Robin Wen, Lucian Moriyama, Anna Zanichelli

Until January 7, 2023
Wednesday – Saturday, 2pm – 6.30pm
Avenue Van Volxem 316.

Stay tuned for upcoming events!

See you at the Opening of PERSEVERANCE IIIJoin us today, 17th November, from 5-9pm.
17/11/2022

See you at the Opening of PERSEVERANCE III
Join us today, 17th November, from 5-9pm.

Montoro12 take part to Luxembourg Art Week, THE FΛIR 202211–13 November 2022, Booth D04
10/11/2022

Montoro12 take part to Luxembourg Art Week, THE FΛIR 2022
11–13 November 2022, Booth D04

PERSEVERANCE IIISave the date: Opening 17.11.2022Curated by Stefan PollakFeaturing: Barbara Leclercq, Lionel Dury, Robin...
08/11/2022

PERSEVERANCE III
Save the date: Opening 17.11.2022
Curated by Stefan Pollak

Featuring: Barbara Leclercq, Lionel Dury, Robin Wen, Lucian Moriyama, Anna Zanichelli

Stay tuned for updates!

PERSEVERANCE IIIOpening 17.11.2022Curated by Stefan PollakFeaturing: Barbara Leclercq, Lionel Dury, Robin Wen, Lucian Mo...
07/11/2022

PERSEVERANCE III
Opening 17.11.2022
Curated by Stefan Pollak

Featuring: Barbara Leclercq, Lionel Dury, Robin Wen, Lucian Moriyama, Anna Zanichelli

Stay tuned for updates!

Last week to see the dual exhibition “Break” by Serena Fineschi & Loredana Longo, curated by Marina DacciExtract of the ...
25/10/2022

Last week to see the dual exhibition “Break” by Serena Fineschi & Loredana Longo, curated by Marina Dacci

Extract of the exhibition text by the curator:
(…) The works on display have an agentivity within them, a special hold on the viewer. The works are observed and, in turn, they observe, they offer and question themselves. They act, sliding towards the viewer, witnessing individual paths that thus become a shared heritage of feelings and reflections, including social ones. (…)

Marina Dacci full text on our website www.m12gallery.com :
https://www.m12gallery.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/BREAK_txt_marina-Dacci_EN.pdf

Until 30 October 2022
Wednesday – Saturday, 2pm – 6.30pm
Montoro12 Contemporary Brussels, Avenue Van Volxem 316.

Thanks to Le Vif for the great article that calls the dual exhibition “Break” unmissable!!! “Break” by Serena Fineschi &...
22/10/2022

Thanks to Le Vif for the great article that calls the dual exhibition “Break” unmissable!!!

“Break” by Serena Fineschi & Loredana Longo, curated by Marina Dacci

Until 30 October 2022
Wednesday – Saturday, 2pm – 6.30pm
Montoro12 Contemporary Brussels, Avenue Van Volxem 316.

Themba Khumalo, “Uhambo olude”, 2022Charcoal, coffee wash and pastel on paper 50x140cm On view in our Booth W14 ,  Londo...
14/10/2022

Themba Khumalo, “Uhambo olude”, 2022
Charcoal, coffee wash and pastel on paper 50x140cm
On view in our Booth W14
, London.
until October 16th.

With artworks by Hanien Conradie, Themba Khumalo, Cow Mash and Chris Soal

Ready to welcome you at ,  London. Visit us at Booth W14, with artworks by ,  , .mash and  VIP preview today October 13t...
13/10/2022

Ready to welcome you at , London.
Visit us at Booth W14, with artworks by , , .mash and

VIP preview today October 13th
Open to public October 14th to 16th

Tomorrow don’t miss the opening day at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2022!Come over and discover more about our boo...
12/10/2022

Tomorrow don’t miss the opening day at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2022!

Come over and discover more about our booth, with artworks by Hanien Conradie, Themba khumalo Art, Cow Mash and Chris Soal

13- 16 October, 2022
Main Section | Booth W14

Cow Mash, “Matwetwe”, 2022, Faux leather, synthetic fibre, found object, Material one 93.5x63.5x35cm; unique.

Thanks to Artcollector Magazinfor the great article on “Break”, dual exhibition by Serena Fineschi and Loredana Longo, c...
03/10/2022

Thanks to Artcollector Magazin
for the great article on “Break”, dual exhibition by Serena Fineschi and Loredana Longo, curated by Marina Dacci

Until 30 October 2022
Wednesday – Saturday, 2pm – 6.30pm
Avenue Van Volxem 316.

Photo caption: Loredana Longo, Armor, 2022
Ceramics (five pieces), tempera 147x147x23cm

“Break”, dual exhibition by Serena Fineschi & Loredana Longocurated by Marina Daccion view until October 30th.Wednesday ...
29/09/2022

“Break”, dual exhibition by Serena Fineschi & Loredana Longo
curated by Marina Dacci

on view until October 30th.
Wednesday – Saturday, 2pm – 6.30pm
Montoro12 Contemporary Brussels, Avenue Van Volxem 316, Brussels.

Extract of the exhibition text by the curator :

(…)“The body is experienced and perceived as a psychic and sentimental journey that is symbolically reactivated and comes to life with and in matter or with and in language (…)

Marina Dacci full text on our website www.m12gallery.com

Photo Caption: Serena Fineschi, "Malelingue”, 2020-2022, old polished iron files, variable measures

Montoro12 Artist Residence in Rome is starting again!! We are excited to host the Austrian artist Jochen Höller. Born in...
21/09/2022

Montoro12 Artist Residence in Rome is starting again!!
We are excited to host the Austrian artist Jochen Höller. Born in 1977 in Amstetten, Austria, graduated at the university of art and industrial design in Linz lives and works in Vienna.

For more info on the artist Jochen Höller take a look at our web www.m12gallery.com and follow us for updates!
Montoro12 Artist Residence: Via Alfonsine 21, Rome

Jochen Hoeller, “Oracle”, 2016, mix media.

Discover in our gallery in Brussels, “Break” the dual exhibition by Serena Fineschi & Loredana Longo curated by Marina D...
16/09/2022

Discover in our gallery in Brussels, “Break” the dual exhibition by Serena Fineschi & Loredana Longo curated by Marina Dacci

on view until October 30th.
Wednesday – Saturday, 2pm – 6.30pm
Avenue Van Volxem 316, Brussels.
On our bio the link for Espoarte’s article.

Loredana Longo, “Floor #6”, floating ground, concrete and glass.
“Carpet #4”, burns on carpet.

Serena Fineschi “Primavera dell’impazienza”, 2022, fine art printing, pop corn, 2 (70x100 cm) is part of “Break” the dua...
14/09/2022

Serena Fineschi “Primavera dell’impazienza”, 2022, fine art printing, pop corn, 2 (70x100 cm) is part of “Break” the dual exhibition by Serena Fineschi & Loredana Longo curated by
Marina Dacci.

On view until October 30th.
Wednesday – Saturday, 2pm – 6.30pm
Avenue Van Volxem 316, Brussels.
On our bio the link for Espoarte’s article.

Discover in our gallery in Brussels the dual exhibition  “Break” by Serena Fineschi and Loredana Longo, curated by Marin...
12/09/2022

Discover in our gallery in Brussels the dual exhibition “Break” by Serena Fineschi and Loredana Longo, curated by Marina Dacci.

Until October 30th.
Wednesday – Saturday, 2pm – 6.30pm
Montoro12 Contemporary Brussels, Avenue Van Volxem 316.

Busy day for the exhibition Break Montoro12 Gallery Brussels]. The exhibition curated by Marina Dacci] with works by ser...
10/09/2022

Busy day for the exhibition Break Montoro12 Gallery Brussels]. The exhibition curated by Marina Dacci] with works by serenafineschi] and Loredana Longo is part of the Brussels Gallery Weekend and will run till Oct 30. Come visit us in Avenue Van Volxem 316! Montoro12 Gallery Brussels

Thanks to Espoarte for the great article on “Break”, dual exhibition by Serena Fineschi and Loredana Longo, curated by M...
09/09/2022

Thanks to Espoarte for the great article on “Break”, dual exhibition by Serena Fineschi and Loredana Longo, curated by Marina Dacci
link for the article: https://cutt.ly/KCUlUJa

Until 30 October 2022
Avenue Van Volxem 316,

Dinner before “ Break” opening, dual exhibition by Serena Fineschi  e Loredana Longo, curated by Marina Dacci, part of t...
06/09/2022

Dinner before “ Break” opening, dual exhibition by Serena Fineschi e Loredana Longo, curated by Marina Dacci, part of the Brussels Gallery Weekend.

Opening on Thursday 8th!
Avenue Van Volxem 316, Brussels.

Installation day for the exhibition “Break” with works by Serena Fineschi and Loredana Longo, curated by Marina Dacci, p...
04/09/2022

Installation day for the exhibition “Break” with works by Serena Fineschi and Loredana Longo, curated by Marina Dacci, part of the Brussels Gallery Weekend.

Opening on Thursday 8th
Montoro12 Contemporary Brussels, Avenue Van Volxem 316.
don’t miss the show!

We are excited to announce that starting on September 8th, during the , there will be the dual exhibition “Break” by  an...
09/08/2022

We are excited to announce that starting on September 8th, during the , there will be the dual exhibition “Break” by and Loredana Longo], curated by


Avenue Van Volxem 316, Brussels

Stay Tuned for updates!

Loredana Longo, “Tirapugni 1”

Our gallery in Brussels is closed for the Summer break, and will re-open in September with a new exhibitions:  “Break” d...
01/08/2022

Our gallery in Brussels is closed for the Summer break, and will re-open in September with a new exhibitions:
“Break” dual solo exhibition by Serena Fineschi and Loredana Longo, curated by Marina Dacci (part of Brussels Gallery Weekend)

Keep on following to discover more!

Last chance to visit 's solo exhibition “Picking Flowers at the Edge of the Minimum”📆 Until today, 30 July 2022⌚️Wednesd...
30/07/2022

Last chance to visit 's solo exhibition “Picking Flowers at the Edge of the Minimum”

📆 Until today, 30 July 2022
⌚️Wednesday – Saturday, 2pm – 6.30pm
📍
Avenue Van Volxem 316, Brussels
🎯On our bio the link for the article on

⏳Last 2 days to see Sakir Gökcebag]’s solo exhibition “I Can’t Say it Better”📆Until Saturday July 30th⌚️Wednesday – Satu...
29/07/2022

⏳Last 2 days to see Sakir Gökcebag]’s solo exhibition
“I Can’t Say it Better”
📆Until Saturday July 30th
⌚️Wednesday – Saturday, 2pm – 6.30pm
📍Montoro12 Gallery Brussels]
Avenue Van Volxem 316, 1190 Brussels

📷 Sakir Gökcebag], “Untitled”, 2017, 30x45x25 cm, unique
Montoro12 Gallery Brussels]

“Botta works with elements that have an ancient connection with man, that are somehow inscribed in our cultural DNA, suc...
22/07/2022

“Botta works with elements that have an ancient connection with man, that are somehow inscribed in our cultural DNA, such as wax, lead, glass, water, iron, fire, marble, clay, lately also leaves, herbs, flowers and blood: materials transformed into something lighter, aerial, suspended, which speak to us of our fragility and impermanence”.

Discover in our gallery in Brussels ’s solo exhibition “Picking Flowers at the Edge of the Minimum”

Until 30 July 2022
Wednesday – Saturday, 2pm – 6.30pm
Avenue Van Volxem 316, Brussels

Sakir Gökcebag, “Global Level”, (spirit level), 2021, 200x14x2cm. Currently on view in Sakir Gökcebag’s solo exhibition ...
20/07/2022

Sakir Gökcebag, “Global Level”, (spirit level), 2021, 200x14x2cm.

Currently on view in Sakir Gökcebag’s solo exhibition “I Can’t Say it Better”.
Until July 30th
Wednesday – Saturday, 2pm – 6.30pm
Montoro12 Contemporary Art Brussels
Avenue Van Volxem 316, 1190 Brussels

Discover, in our gallery in Brussels, the poetry of the works in alabaster by  in the solo exhibition “Picking Flowers a...
13/07/2022

Discover, in our gallery in Brussels, the poetry of the works in alabaster by in the solo exhibition “Picking Flowers at the Edge of the Minimum”

Until 30 July 2022
Wednesday – Saturday, 2pm – 6.30pm
Avenue Van Volxem 316, Brussels

On view at our gallery in Brussels  ‘s solo exhibition “Can't Say it Better". Until 30 July 2022Wednesday – Saturday, 2p...
12/07/2022

On view at our gallery in Brussels ‘s solo exhibition “Can't Say it Better".

Until 30 July 2022
Wednesday – Saturday, 2pm – 6.30pm
Montoro12 Contemporary Art Brussels
Avenue Van Volxem 316, 1190 Brussels

💥 Hope to see you today June 16 at 4/8 pm at the Gregorio Botta's first solo exhibition in Belgium entitled 🌸 “Picking F...
16/06/2022

💥 Hope to see you today June 16 at 4/8 pm at the Gregorio Botta's first solo exhibition in Belgium entitled
🌸 “Picking Flowers at the Edge of the Minimum”.

📆 Exhibition dates: 16 June – 30 July 2022
📍
Avenue Van Volxem 316, Brussels

📷 , “Noli me tangere 1”, paper, wax, natural elements, blood, iron, glass, 42x173 cm.

Opening on Thursday June 16, 4-8 pm. Gregorio Botta's first solo exhibition in Belgium entitled “Picking Flowers at the ...
14/06/2022

Opening on Thursday June 16, 4-8 pm.
Gregorio Botta's first solo exhibition in Belgium entitled “Picking Flowers at the Edge of the Minimum”

Exhibition dates: 16 June – 30 July 2022
Avenue Van Volxem 316, Brussels

Gregorio Botta, “Angelo nascosto”, 2022, wax and iron, glass, 183x36x50 cm

✨Tomorrow join us for the finissage of the group exhibition 🌏“Earth Power!” 📅On Monday June 13,⌚️from 5 pm to 8 pm📍 Aven...
12/06/2022

✨Tomorrow join us for the finissage of the group exhibition 🌏“Earth Power!”

📅On Monday June 13,⌚️from 5 pm to 8 pm
📍
Avenue Van Volxem 316, Brussels

Featuring: , , , , , , , , ,
Curator:



Save the date! Opening June 16, 5-8 pm!
08/06/2022

Save the date! Opening June 16, 5-8 pm!

We are pleased to present Gregorio Botta's first solo exhibition in Belgium entitled “Picking Flowers at the Edge of the Minimum”

Opening on Tuesday June 16, 5-8 pm
Avenue Van Volxem 316, Brussels

Caption pics: Gregoria Botta, “Holderlin Paradise”, seven 30 cm glass circles, terracotta, variable dimensions, detail.

📌Save the dates! We will participate on May 27 to 29, in the third edition of The Phair Turin with a project shared with...
24/05/2022

📌Save the dates! We will participate on May 27 to 29, in the third edition of The Phair Turin with a project shared with Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea.
Artworks by: Paula Baeza Pailamilla, Elena Bellantoni, Steve Sabella and Larissa Sansour.

📷, Sinopia III, 2014, lightjet print mounted on matt diasec with 3.5cm aluminum box edge, 205x136cm, 54x70cm.

🇮🇹Partecipereremo dal 27 al 29 Maggio, alla terza edizione di The Phair Torino con un progetto condiviso con Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea.
Con le opere di Paula Baeza Pailamilla, Elena Bellantoni, Steve Sabella and Larissa Sansour.
.antoniniartecontemporanea

“Dear Nature, full of conceptual implications and hidden meanings that only the camera can bring to light.”We will parti...
23/05/2022

“Dear Nature, full of conceptual implications and hidden meanings that only the camera can bring to light.”

We will participate on May 27 to May 29, in the third edition of The Phair Torino with a project shared with Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea.
With artworks by Paula Baeza Pailamilla, Steve Sabella Artist Page and Larissa Sansour.

“Cara Natura, i tuoi infiniti risvolti concettuali e i tuoi significati nascosti: solo la macchina fotografica sa come metterli in luce.”

Parteciperemo dal 27 al 29 Maggio, alla terza edizione di The Phair Torino con un progetto condiviso con Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea.
Con le opere di Paula Baeza Pailamilla, Steve Sabella and Larissa Sansour.

📷Installation view of our current group exhibition in Brussels 🌏“Earth Power!” Featuring: , , , , , , , , ,  Curator:  📆...
20/05/2022

📷Installation view of our current group exhibition in Brussels
🌏“Earth Power!”
Featuring: , , , , , , , , ,
Curator:

📆Until June 11, 2022
⌚️Wednesday – Saturday, 2pm – 6.30pm
📍Montoro12 Gallery Brussels]
Avenue Van Volxem 316, Brussels
🎯Link in bio for 3d
Montoro12 Gallery Brussels]


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Visit our Booth ZMS1 at Zsona Maco México Arte Contemporáneo presenting the works of Iulian Bisericaru in dialog with Alessandro Brighetti ➡️ Montoro12 Contemporary Art🌵

The dialogue between artists Iulian Bisericaru (b. 1987, Romania) and Allesandro Brighetti (b. 1978, Italy) inspires a new strategy of relating to nature, imagining a fantastic garden in which the aesthetic separation between human and non-human no longer exists. A new spirituality emerges amidst Brighetti's ”Curanderas” shamanic installations of discarded objects and Bisericaru's sublimated landscapes of post-industrial inspiration. Their work evokes the cathartic ethos of nature, in what author and curator Giovanni Aioli would call being ”lost in the post-sublime forest”, in an alternate, post-ecological and post-romantic view of our place in the natural environment.
Zsona Maco México Arte Contemporáneo opening today!

Iulian Bisericaru in dialogue with artist Alessandro Brighetti Montoro12 Contemporary Art 🌵

Booth ZMS1 ➡️ section SUR curated by Luiza Texeira de Freitas
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Does the weekend feel far away? Don’t worry, our ENTER galleries are staring their openings early this week. See the list here:

📆Opening Wednesday 17 Nov:

🔹 2112: Lars Christensen “New Objects”.
⌚️Opening: Wednesday, Nov 17th 17.00 – 19.00

📆Opening Thursday 18 Nov:

🔹 Montoro12 Contemporary Art: Group show “Bodies of Desire” curated by Tiago de Abreu Pinto”, 17 Nov – 15 Jan 2022
⌚️Opening: Thursday, Nov 18th 17.00 – 22.00

🔹 Brigade Copenhagen: Coline Marotta “Keeping in Touch".
⌚️Opening: Thursday, Nov 18th 17.00 – 22.00

🔹 The Hole: Joakim Ojanen “The Part You Throw Away” 18 Nov – 31 Dec 2021
⌚️Opening: Thursday, Nov 18th 18.00 – 20.00

🔹 Dio Horia: Aleksandar Todorvic “Brave New Normal World” 18 Nov – 15 Jan 2022
⌚️Opening: Thursday, Nov 18th 19.00 – 22.00

🔹 Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery: Gabriela Giroletti “Breezy”
⌚️Opening: Thursday, Nov 18th 18.30 – 21.00

📆Opening Friday 19 Nov:

🔹 Format: Group show “One Size Fits All” 19 Nov – 22 Dec 2021.
⌚️Opening: Friday, Nov 19th, 18.00 – 21.00

🔹 carlier | gebauer: Group show “8/ # # #” curated by Dieter Schwarz. 19 Nov – 23 Feb 2022.
⌚️Opening: Friday, Nov 19th, 18.00 – 21.00

🔹 Galleri Tom Christoffersen: Julie Nord ”Metamorphosis” 19 Nov – 19 Dec 2021
⌚️Opening: Friday, Nov 19th, 17.00 - 19.00

Euphoria edition 6/6 - last one available! (155 / 125 cm). Matt Diasec
Swab Art Fair With Montoro12 Gallery, Rome, Brussels.

Swab on Paper
"This year again, Swab presents the program Swab On Paper, curated by Carolina Diez-Cascón, which explores the conceptuality and technique of this medium. This edition focuses on photocollage, observing the deformations of photographic reality and the classic paper-collage through the manipulation of the medium itself in response to a society that reflects on its own reality and identity."

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Montoro12 Contemporary Art Swab Barcelona Art Fair
Discover our booth with artworks by Isobel Church, Emmanuele De Ruvo, Luca Padroni, Larissa Sansour, Steve Sabella and Chris Soal

On show at our booth n. 14
until October 10
Swab Barcelona Art Fair , General Program
Montoro12 Contemporary Art
Continuiamo a presentare le mostre della IX edizione di Castelnuovo Fotografia

⚫️ EXTRAMOON
a cura di Manuela De Leonardis

In collaborazione con
Galleria del Cembalo
MEM
Montoro12 Contemporary Art

Con il patrocinio di Accademia di Danimarca - Det Danske Institut i Rom, Ambasciata di Danimarca in Italia, IILA Istituto Italo Latino Americano, Instituto Cervantes Roma, Istituto Giapponese di Cultura in Roma, Oficina Cultural Embajada de España, Real Academia de España en Roma, Embajada Argentina en Roma.

Anche oggi che si va su Marte per noi «romantici» la luna rimane il territorio parzialmente inesplorato dei sogni e dell’utopia. The dark side of the moon, chiari di luna, moon cake, luna di miele, fasi lunari, allunaggio… pensieri e sguardi indirizzati ad un paesaggio futuro, un altrove per lo più immaginifico in cui proiettare una parte del sé, che in EXTRAMOON viaggiano alla velocità della luce attraverso le opere di 12 artisti internazionali. Di che colore è la luna? s’interrogava Life International nel numero del 25 luglio 1966: la stessa luna che attira il giovane arrampicato sul palo in una notte di festa che Mario Dondero fotografa in Lucania e che si riflette sulle acque del lago d’Annecy, «pescata» dalle fanciulle dipinte da Paul Émile Chabas e riprodotta con fotoincisione nella cartolina postale d’epoca. Francesco Zizola cattura sulle acque dello stretto di Messina un’analoga texture di raggi lunari, mobile come una melodiosa scrittura automatica. Per Yuko Kotaki la luna è sferica come la palla su cui ritrova la propria ombra o come la sede aerospaziale dell’Usaf Space Track spuntata dal nulla nell’arida immensità del territorio statunitense e fotografata da Jack Sal. Ha sempre due facce (guai a dimenticarlo!) - lo sottolinea Natalia Saurin - come l’amore e l’innamoramento. Anche Tahia Farhin Haque intercetta nel visibile la sua ambiguità: la luna, proprio come una fetta d’anguria su uno specchio tondo, appare bellissima e cromaticamente seducente, chissà - però - se cela del marcio al suo interno. Cosmonauti, androidi e anche cani in missione speciale: realtà o finzione? Joan Fontcuberta, Sara Munari, Daniel Rothbart, Noriko Yamaguchi insinuano il dubbio e lo condividono con l’osservatore. Se, poi, Luca Maria Patella sale sempre più su appeso al cartello stradale «stop», Larissa Sansour conquista lo spazio con la bandiera palestinese sulle note arabescate del film di fantascienza 2001: Odissea nello spazio (1968) di Stanley Kubrick. Finché sarà nel cielo stellato, la luna certamente non mancherà di essere quel «gabinetto delle meraviglie» disegnato con levità e ironia da Sara Colaone in Moonderkammer. Intanto sembra di udire la voce di Franco Battiato che intona «cerco un centro di gravità permanente» e noi tutti cantiamo con lui.

English below 👇

Even today when we can get to Mars, the moon remains the partially unexplored territory of dreams and utopia for those of us who are “romantics”. The dark side of the moon, moonlight, moon cake, honeymoon, lunar phases, moonlanding .......... thoughts and visions directed to a future landscape, an elsewhere which is primarily imagined where one can project a part of oneself, and which in EXTRAMOON travels at the speed of light through the works of 12 international artists. Life International in its July 25,1966 edition asked “What color is the Moon?”. Is it the same Moon which led a young man to climb up a pole on a festive night in Lucania that Mario Dondero photographed and which reflects the waters of Lake d’Annecy, “fish caught” by the young girls painted by Paul Emile Chabas and reproduced in the photoengraving in the postcards of the period. Francesco Zizola captures an analogous texture of the lunar rays on the waters in the Straight of Messina, mobile as a melodious automatic writing. For Yuko Kotaki, the moon is a sphere like the ball in which it finds its own shadow or like the USAF Space Track aerospace headquarters rising from nothing in the arid immensity of US territory and photographed by Jack Sal. Natalia Saurin underlines the fact that it always has two faces (and you will pay for it if you forget this) like love and falling in love. Tahia Farhin Haque also intercepts its ambiguity visibly: the moon, like a slice of watermelon laying on a round mirror, appears to be beautiful and chromatically seductive, however, who knows if it is hiding something rotten in its core.
Cosmonauts, androids and even dogs on special missions – reality or fiction? Joan Fontcuberta, Sara Munari, Daniel Rothbart, Noriko Yamaguchi insinuate this doubt and share it with the observer. If then, Luca Maria Patella rises higher and higher, hanging to a street sign that says , Larissa Sansour conquers the space with a Palestinian flag accompanied by the arabesque notes of the science fiction film 2001: Odyssey in Space (1968) by Stanley Kubrick. As long as it remains in the starry sky, the moon will never cease to be the cabinet of marvels designed with levity and irony by Sara Colaone in Moonderkammer. In the meantime, it seems like we can almost hear the voice of Franco Battiato as he sings “I am looking for a permanent center of gravity” as we all sing along with him.

🟠 IL PAESAGGIO FUTURO 🟠
RAPPRESENTAZIONE / IMMAGINAZIONE
2 - 10 ottobre 2021
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🟠 IL PAESAGGIO FUTURO 🟠
RAPPRESENTAZIONE / IMMAGINAZIONE
2 - 10 ottobre 2021

⚫️ After
Larissa Sansour
a cura di Ursula Hawlitschka e Manuela De Leonardis
in collaborazione con Montoro12 Contemporary Art
con il patrocinio di Accademia di Danimarca - Det Danske Institut i Rom e dell' Ambasciata di Danimarca in Italia

After è una narrazione fantapolitica in bianco e nero che intercetta le dinamiche della memoria e della nostalgia. Larissa Sansour (Gerusalemme Est 1973, vive e lavora a Londra) ha realizzato queste fotografie concettuali, in parte stills del video In Vitro (2019), codiretto con Søren Lind, in occasione della 58. Biennale d’Arte di Venezia per la personale Heirloom, curata da Nat Muller e commissionata dalla Danish Arts Foundation per il padiglione della Danimarca. L’artista palestinese che nel suo lavoro interdisciplinare combina film, fotografia, installazione e scultura ha immaginato uno scenario fantascientifico per sfidare la concezione del tempo attraverso il dialogo tra le figure femminili di Dunia e Alia. La prima, detentrice dell’identità e della memoria, sopravvissuta ad un disastro ecologico ha creato un grande frutteto sotterraneo sotto la città biblica di Betlemme, lì dove era situato un reattore nucleare poi abbandonato. Alia, invece, è un clone nato in laboratorio le cui memorie ereditarie interferiscono in maniera alienante con il presente. Se per Dunia (in arabo vuol dire mondo, terra) la casa è rappresentata dalla città, per Alia (nelle diverse etimologie il nome arabo è associato a cielo, paradiso, sublime; in ebraico “aliyah” indica l’immigrazione sionista in Palestina) non è che un mondo artificiale temporaneo. Come scrive Nat Muller, la dimora di Alia “si trova da qualche parte nel futuro – e forse anche altrove – mentre per Dunia è decisamente legata al passato. Entrambe le donne sembrano essere rinchiuse in una prigione temporale con risposte contrastanti su cosa potrebbe liberarle”.

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After is a political fiction narration in black and white which intercepts the dynamics of memory and and that of nostalgia. Larissa Sansour (born in East Jerusalem1973, lives and works in London) created these conceptual photographs, in part stills from the video (In Vitro) which she co-directed with Soren Lind in 2019, for the 58th Biennale D’Arte di Venezia, for her personal show Heirloom, curated by Nat Muller and commissioned by the Danish Arts Foundation for the Danish pavillion. The Palestinian artist, who combines films, photography, installations and sculpture in her interdisciplinary works, envisioned a science fiction scenario to challenge the concept of time through the dialog between the feminine figures of Dunia and Alia. Dunia, keeper of identity and of memory, after having survived an ecological disaster, has created an enormous underground fruit grove below the Biblical city of Bethlehem, exactly where an abandoned nuclear reactor had been located. On the other hand, Alia is a clone created in a laboratory whose inherited memories conflict in an alienating manner with the present. If for Dunia (a name which means mondo or earth in Arabic), the house is represented by the city, for Alia (which in the various ethnologies of Arabic is associated with heaven, paradise and sublime whereas “aliyah” in Hebrew indicates the Sionist immigration into Palestine), it is nothing but a temporary, artificial world. As Nat Muller writes, Alia’s home “is to be found at some place in the future – and even perhaps elsewhere – whereas it is definitely connected to the past for Dunia. Both women appear to be enclosed in a temporal prison with conflicting anwers regarding how they could each be liberated.”

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