Parma Italian Capital of Culture 2020 opens with an exhibition on time

The year of Parma Italian Capital of Culture 2020 opens with the opening of a major exhibition on January 12: Time Machine. Seeing and Experiencing Time, open to the public from January 13 to May 3, 2020, at the Governor’s Palace.

The brainchild of Parma Councillor for Culture Michele Guerra, the exhibition is curated by Antonio Somaini with Eline Grignard and Marie Rebecchi.

Time Machine examines the way in which cinema and other media founded on moving images have transformed our perception of time over the past 125 years, through a range of temporal manipulation techniques: from acceleration to slow motion; from freeze frame to time-lapse; from backward projection to loop and the endless variations of that fundamental cinematic operation that is montage.

Cinema, video and video installations thus proposed as true “time machines,” according to three different meanings: as media capable of recording, archiving and re-presenting visual and audiovisual phenomena; as media that make possible different forms of time travel; and finally, as media that operate different forms of temporal manipulation.

It is therefore an exhibition that is inextricably linked to the claim of Parma2020: culture beats time(www.parma2020.it).

The starting point of the exhibition itinerary are two events dating back to 1895: the first publication of the science fiction short story The Time Machine: An Invention by H.G. Wells and the first public presentation of the Lumière Brothers’ Cinématographe. The exhibition then winds its way to the very latest techniques for temporal manipulation of moving images produced through artificial intelligence, machine learning and neural networks.

Divided into different sections, the exhibition is a fascinating journey through time, which is revealed in all its relativity and plasticity through works by artists and photographers such as Douglas Gordon, Rosa Barba, Tacita Dean, Jeffrey Blondes, Grégory Chatonsky, Ange Leccia, Jacques Perconte, Robert Smithson, and Alain Fleischer, and filmmakers such as Martin Arnold, Harun Farocki, Jean-Luc Godard, Bill Morrison, Gustav Deutsch, Ken Jacobs, and Malena Szlam.

Along the 25 rooms of the Governor’s Palace is an immersive journey through images, projections and film excerpts from early and experimental cinema, classic and contemporary cinema, scientific and documentary cinema, video installations and selected moments from the history of photography. Visitors will thus experience a temporal journey through moving images conceived as ways of seeing and experiencing time.

Time Machine is produced by Solares Fondazione delle Arti with the contribution of the City of Parma and sponsors Parmalat and Ocme as part of the official program of Parma Italian Capital of Culture 2020, and is in collaboration with the Cinémathèque française.

Accompanying the exhibition is a catalog published by Skira with 11 texts written by leading international figures in art, film and media theory(Emmanuel Alloa, Jacques Aumont, Raymond Bellour, Christa Blümlinger, Grégory Chatonsky, Georges Didi-Huberman, Philippe Dubois, Noam Elcott plus the three curators) and 11 iconographic sections(Time Machines, Time Axis Manipulations, Flows, Instants, Time-lapse, Multiple Exposures, Animate / Inanimate, Re-montage, Loops & Reversals, Deep Time, Machine Visions).

Pictured: Bill Morrison, Light is Calling

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Parma Italian Capital of Culture 2020 opens with an exhibition on time

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