Contemporary art in Genoa: start of the fourth edition of the Biennale Le Latitudini dell'arte

Held from July 20 to Aug. 31, 2019, at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, the fourth edition of the contemporary art biennial Le Latitudini dell’arte takes place.

The exhibition, conceived and curated by Virginia Monteverde and presented this year by art critic Viana Conti, has the patronage of the Liguria Region, the City of Genoa and theEmbassy of the Netherlands. The Biennial was established in 2013 with the aim of promoting and encouraging artistic-cultural interchange betweenItaly and other European countries. This 4th edition, with the theme Water and Light, features the participation of 60 artists living and working in Italy and the Netherlands. As in previous editions, the artists were selected through collaboration with Galleries and Foundations in the two countries.

“Multimedia, on a linguistic level, and the liquid condition of the social fabric of postmodernity, theorized by political scientist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman,” says Viana Conti, “recursively connote the artistic choices of the broad cultural landscape outlined by the curator. In an era of globalization, de-aestheticization of art versus a widespread aestheticization of a commodity-fetish, this society, with advanced capitalism, presents, inevitably, its tensions, its resolved or unresolved conflicts, its migratory flows, its desperate hope trips, its ecological degradation or recovery, its open questions about the present and the future. The scenario resulting from a selective panorama of thirty Dutch and as many Italian exponents, does not fail, in fact, to reflect the signs, the symptoms, the openings or closures of the horizon, which each artist, as a sensitive creative seismograph of the context that surrounds him, projects in his work.”

The 2019 edition of the Biennial Le Latitudini dell’arte also, in alliance with the Museums of Genoa circuit, invites visitors to the exhibition to take the Holland and Flanders - The Latitudes of Art in the Genoa of the Past itinerary, which runs between Palazzo Reale, Strada Nuova Museums, Palazzo Spinola National Gallery and Trust (Villa del Principe). The artists of the Biennial Le Latitudes of Art - 4th Edition Holland and Italy: Annemieke Alberts, Roland Berning, Federico Bonelli, Wim Claessen, Lin de Mol, Lara de Moor, Kitty Doomernik, Stephen Eastaugh, Peter Edel, Theo Eissens, Kim Habers, David Lascaris, Lynne Leegte, Danielle Kwaaitaal, Kiki Lamers, Raquel Maulwurf, Hidenori Mitsue, Jef Nassenstein, Pieter Obels, Monica Ragazzini, Joseph Sassoon Semah, Charlotte Schrameijer, Ingrid Simons, Ellen Schippers, Hugo Tieleman, Willem van den Hoed, Aaron van Erp, Roos van Haaften, Marc Philip van Kempen, Tessa Verder. Italy: Maria Rebecca Ballestra, Mirko Baricchi, Carla Bedini, Stefania Beretta, Stefano Cagol, Loris Cecchini, Andrea Chiesi, Davide Coltro, Vania Comoretti, Philip Corner, Roberto de Luca, Chiara Dynys, Federico De Leonardis, Franco Donaggio, Inés Fontenla, Mauro Ghiglione, Riccardo Gusmaroli, Carla Iacono, PierPaolo Koss, Federica Marangoni, Giulia Marchi, Viviana Milan, Anna Oberto, Nicolò Paoli, Angelo Pretolani, Saverio Rampin, Roberto Rossini, Silvano Tessarollo, Valentina Vannicola, Stefano Mario Zatti.

For all information you can call +39 010 8171600, send an email to biglietteria@palazzoducale.genova.it or visit the official website of Palazzo Ducale di Genova.

Pictured: Wim Claessen, Beach, acrylic on linen. Ph. credit: Galerie Roger

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Contemporary art in Genoa: start of the fourth edition of the Biennale Le Latitudini dell'arte

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