Rome, Julian Rosefeldt's Manifesto redesigns the Palazzo delle Esposizioni

From Feb. 26 to April 22, 2019, the architecture of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome is redesigned by the installation Manifesto by German artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt (Munich, 1965): the work, articulated in 13 large screens, tells different stories that, from time to time, tune into the power of a choral voice. Manifesto, which first appeared in 2015, pays homage to the poignant tradition and literary beauty of 20th-century art manifestos, while at the same time questioning the role played by the figure of the artist in contemporary society.

For each of the 13 screenings, Rosefeldt created a collage of texts drawing on the manifestos of Futurists, Dadaists, Fluxus, Suprematists, Situationists, Dogma 95 and other collectives or movements or the individual reflections of artists, dancers and filmmakers such as Umberto Boccioni, Antonio Sant’Elia, Lucio Fontana, Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Rainer, Kazimir Malevich, André Breton, Elaine Sturtevant, Sol LeWitt, Jim Jarmusch, Guy Debord, Adrian Piper, and John Cage.

Each station presents a different situation centered, with the exception of the prologue, on eleven different female characters and one male character: a homeless person, a broker, a worker at a garbage incineration plant, a CEO, a punk, a scientist, the speaker at a funeral, a puppeteer, the mother of a conservative family, a choreographer, a television journalist, and a teacher, all played by Australian actress Cate Blanchett. It is she who breathes new dramatic life into the words of Manifestos, which resonate in unexpected contexts.

Manifesto is an opera, written, directed and produced by Julian Rosefeldt. It was commissioned byACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, theArt Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, the Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and the Sprengel Museum in Hanover; co-produced by Burger Collection Hong Kong and Ruhrtriennale; and produced with the generous support of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and in cooperation with Bayerischer Rundfunk.

For all information you can visit the official Palazzo delle Esposizioni website.

Rome, Julian Rosefeldt's Manifesto redesigns the Palazzo delle Esposizioni

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