Masbedo art duo in Milan with exhibition Why Frontiers Change

Alberto Salvadori, director of the Fondazione ICA Milano and curator of the exhibition ICA Milano - Istituto Contemporaneo per le Arti continues its programming with a new unprecedented exhibition project, the solo show of Masbedo, an artistic duo formed by Nicolò Massazza (1973) and Iacopo Bedogni (1970).

Because Frontiers Change is the title of the exhibition, curated by Alberto Salvadori, which will occupy the two floors of the Foundation from Saturday, October 12 to Sunday, November 10, 2019.

Focus of the project is a reflection on the past and present history of Sicily, which has always been a land of everyone and no one, a mythopoetic place par excellence. The exhibition brings together pre-existing works, re-editions and unpublished works, all generated in Sicilian territory and linked to its cultural and social complexity.

The Masbedo duo fuses together elements of Sicilian history, such as the story of the Panaria Film production company and the testimony of Palermo ’s mayor Leoluca Orlando, famous references to the cinematographyof directors Vittorio De Seta, Ugo Gregoretti, Francesco Rosi and Luchino Visconti, and issues related to Palermo’s Tamil community.

The exhibition also becomes an opportunity to present the themes most dear to the two artists: the history of cinema and its connection with performance, the image as a tool for reflection and dissemination of memory, the importance of cultural action and at the same time its performative dimension.

Through an entirely Italian historical and cultural narrative path, the Masbedo unveil the creation of a dream, the cinematic one, brought back to life in the spaces of ICA. The artists thus activate a reasoning about the cinema of the past, leading a reflection on the image deported in memory and its ability to influence cultural and performative actions.

Why Frontiers Change is an exhibition co-produced by ICA Milan with Beatrice Bulgari for In Between Art Film and Stone Island. Executive co-production is by A.C. AreaVideo.

Masbedo is a duo formed by Nicolò Massazza (1973) and Iacopo Bedogni (1970). Their works have been exhibited in museums, biennials and institutions around the world, including: 2018 - MAMM Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, Manifesta12 Palermo, Kunstlaboratorium Vestfossen Oslo, Centre Pompidou/Forum des Images Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin 2017 - Marta Herford 2016 - Reggia di Venaria Reale Turin, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Nomas Foundation Rome, Blickle Foundation Stuttgart 2015 - MART Rovereto, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Basel Film Hong Kong Arts Centre 2014 - Fondazione Merz 2013 - Leopold Museum Vienna, MAMBA Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires 2012 - Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Contemporary Art Turin 2011 - Art Unlimited Basel, MAXXI Rome, OK Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, EMAF European Media Art Festival Osnabrück 2010 - Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowsky Castle Warsaw, CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno Las Palmas, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Taiwan 2009 - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, 53. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte la Biennale di Venezia 2007 - Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci Prato, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2006 - CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, DA2 Domus Artium 02 Salamanca, Hangar Bicocca Milan.

For all information you can visit the official website of the ICA Milan Foundation.

Pictured: MASBEDO, Videomobile (Leoluca Orlando), 2019, video installation, duration and dimensions variable. Ph. credit: In Between Art Film, Genny Petrotta

Masbedo art duo in Milan with exhibition Why Frontiers Change

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