Fano, at the Urban Factory the first stop of the traveling exhibition The Things That Happen

Scheduled from August 20 to September 8 is the exhibition Le cose che accadono (Things Happening), which presents the works resulting from the Lido La Fortuna Residency curated by Caterina Angelucci and Luca Zuccala, promoted by theCultural Association Lido Contemporaneo in collaboration with the Municipality of Fano - Department of Culture and Cultural Heritage and Fabbrica Urbana, held in May in and around Fano (and about which we have discussed in detail on these pages in an interview with the curators).The project aims to promote and support the work of artists under 35 invited to engage with the artistic, cultural and landscape peculiarities of the Marche region.

The artists in the exhibition are Nicolò Cecchella, Andrea Martinucci, David Serpetti and Catherine Erica Shanta. Accompanying this poker of artists will be the works of Danny Avidan, Jingge Dong and Oscar Contreras Rojas, three international painters who have made the city of Fano a place of choice and inspiration.The exhibition is based at Palazzo Montevecchio in Fano; it will then move on to Pergola (PU) at Casa Sponge, from September 11 to 30, 2022, and then from October 6 to 18, 2022, in Milan, at the Artcurial auction house.

The things that happen are a revelation, a mixture of assonances and correspondences sparked during the weeks of research on the territory of Fano. Flashes of memories, reminiscences, coincidences ignited in the intense osmotic dialogue with the city, which reverberate in the work of each artist and in the exhibition itinerary. An unprecedented reading of a precious territory, saturated with history and stories that the artist rereads and reinterprets through his own sensitivity, his own eyes. An educated and “foreign” gaze that welcomes and makes its own the peculiarities of the land, the community and the territory, merging and blending with them, until arriving at something that one was not looking for but that, suddenly and inexplicably, manifests itself as a precious piece for one’s own research.

For Andrea Martinucci The things that happen are canvases of different sizes that inaugurate the series The Suites, deep rooms experienced by desires, emotions and fears that ask to be inhabited with a different experience. Through layering, tearing, chaotic compositions and real gestures - such as carrying the canvases inside a suitcase that Martinucci carries with him, immersing them in sea water and finally trampling them as in a ritual dance - the works intend to destroy the ocular distance with the pictorial surface, questioning the value of the figure.

Through an installation consisting of a video projection, an audio track and a graphite drawing on black cardboard,Catherine Erica Shanta presents Calante: a tension to fall, a loss of balance in which the earth sinks into the Adriatic Sea. Investigating the phenomenon of coastal erosion, Shanta pays homage to the unpredictable and subversive water gate that bypasses human action and engulfs it.

On the other hand, David Serpetti questions the concept of human nature by investigating the relationship between icons and power. As the artist explains, “My work investigates the relationship between these two poles through the use of three elements: the hero, sculpture and animals. In my work, each of these elements functions as an iconographic form-representing a purpose, an ideal, an emotion-that allows me to interrogate the concept of human nature in its entirety. In recent years, my subjects have begun to investigate identity in a nonbinary way, pursuing a model of androgynous representation.” Beings of indefinite identity, often likened to animals, such as those depicted in the pages of Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Monstrorum historia, a seventeenth-century bestiary of fantastic animals, preserved in the Federiciana Library in Fano.

Finally,Nicolò Cecchella presents Only with Eyes, an installation consisting of a video and two stainless steel frames containing a film of natural latex rubber mixed with shell dust, sand and archaeological excavation soil. The work becomes a membrane filtered by light and space, like a trace of immanent time, fixed forever.

The residency project saw the involvement of personalities belonging to important cultural and social realities of Fano and its province, who over the course of the residency helped provide the artists with the tools of investigation for a broad and in-depth knowledge of the area.

For all information, you can visit the official website of Lido Contemporaneo.

Fano, at the Urban Factory the first stop of the traveling exhibition The Things That Happen

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