Grand Tour d'Italie: thirty contemporary Italian artists meet the directors of major international centers

Thirty contemporary artists from all over Italy will present their works, from November 12 to 16, 2019, to representatives of ten international institutions identified as excellences, all in Bologna and L’Aquila, the cities hosting the program. This is Grand Tour d’Italie, a project presented by MiBACT’s General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity and Urban Regeneration and NOS Visual Arts Production, curatorial directorship of the cultural association Nosadella.due: the initiative is now in its third year.

The aim of the Grand Tour d’Italie project, launched in 2016, is to activate relationships between Italian mid-career artists and curators and directors of international contemporary art centers: the ultimate goal is to promote Italian art abroad. The artists, this year, have been selected by NOS curators Elisa Del Prete and Silvia Litardi, and will present their works at MAMbo in Bologna and at theAcademy of Fine Arts in L’Aquila, where closed-door meetings between artists and institutions will be held.

The artists selected this year are Alterazioni Video, Andreco, Sara Basta, Riccardo Benassi, Carola Bonfili, Simone Cametti, Chiara Camoni, Canecapovolto, David Casini, Federico Cavallini, Giulia Cenci, Luca Coclite, Davide D’Elia, Maria Adele Del Vecchio, Roberto Fassone, Giovanni Giaretta, GrossiMaglioni, Valentina Medda, Jacopo Miliani, Giovanni Ozzola, Mattia Paje, Luana Perilli, Mariagrazia Pontorno, Anna Raimondo, Ivana Spinelli, Sasha Vinci, Giacomo Zaganelli, and Virginia Zanetti. They are joined by Flavio Favelli and Angelo Bellobono, who were invited as “godparents” to Bologna and L’Aquila, respectively, because of their work for the two cities. The ten international institutions are the CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France), Frame (Helsinki, Finland), Istanbul Modern (Istanbul, Turkey), Maumaus (Lisbon, Portugal), the Museo de Artes Plasticas Eduardo Yesvori (Buenos Aires, Argentina), the Nirox Foundation (Johannesburg, South Africa), NTU Center for Contemporary Art Singapore (Singapore), Rotor (Graz, Austria), RUPERT (Vilnius, Lithuania), Sazmanab, (Tehran, Iran).

“The choice of artists,” the curators state, “was guided by the desire to want to conduct a reconnaissance of the Italian art scene of the last 15 years, a time frame in which the Great Recession, the economic crisis of the 21st century on a global scale, is located. Brought together by an era that seeks to define the paradigm shift to which it is called in order to overcome an economic/productive model that is no longer sustainable, the artists offer an open investigation of what are the aesthetic reactions to our time, by those who have suffered its globalization from the beginning as well as by those, younger, who were born right in the heart of the transformation taking place. Beyond any linguistic or thematic boundary, the chosen artists confront a present that calls for a new experimentation both linguistic and processual, to the need for a confrontation no longer with the image in itself, but with the artifice that originates it, with its possibilities, the potential of form, matter, technology, relationships. What they have in common is certainly a shrewd attitude in which curiosity has replaced denunciation, observation the spectacle, experience the science. The work of these artists infiltrates the interstices of the current world not to change its premises and conditions but to imagine others.”

Pictured: the MAMbo in Bologna

Grand Tour d'Italie: thirty contemporary Italian artists meet the directors of major international centers

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