For the first time in Italy, Jesper Just's techno-nursery at the Museo Marino Marini

Until March 20, 2023, the Museo Marino Marini presents for the first time in Italy the exhibition SEMINARIUM by Danish artist Jesper Just (Copenhagen, 1974). Protagonist of the Danish Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, Jesper Just is known for his cinematic works and large sculptural installations that engage the viewer.

At the Marino Marini Museum, the artist presents an immersive environment through a series of multimedia stations that stage the interdependent relationship between humans and nature. Six multiscreens, manipulated to become real sculptural installations placed in the exhibition space, offer floating fragments of athletic anatomies, while a hypnotic voice repeats commercial slogans of body care products. The wires and circuits of the equipment are visible, creating a disturbing contrast to the glossy aesthetic of the images. In front of each screen, pedestals support plants that live off the water contained in the pots and the violet light radiating from the screens. Human bodies and plants, technology and biology form an ecosystem that reproduces the delicate balance between progress and sustainability that is becoming increasingly unstable.

Installed in the museum’s thirteenth-century crypt, "Jesper Just’s techno-tree nursery," speeches curator Caroline Corbetta, “creates an exciting and sensual environment that offers food for thought on the preservation and reactivation of artistic heritage, on the ability of contemporary artists to address topical issues but also to connect with history.” Upon entering the ancient subterranean space, illuminated by violet glows, the viewer becomes an integral part of this complex pulsating organism in which machines, bodies and plants support each other in an imaginative solution that transcends the anthropocentric view of the world.

Seminarium is the artist’s first monographic exhibition in an Italian museum institution and is organized on the occasion of the new edition of Green-Line, the Christmas festival sponsored by the City of Florence and promoted by MUS.E, under the artistic direction of Sergio Risaliti, running from December 7, 2022 to January 8, 2023.

For the first time in Italy, Jesper Just's techno-nursery at the Museo Marino Marini

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