Six paintings exhibited in Bologna... radio-controlled. It is the project of the trio Canemorto

In Bologna, Palazzo Vizzani, home of the Bologna-based association Alchemilla, is hosting The Painting Race, an exhibition and performance project by the artist trio CANEMORTO, curated by Antonio Grulli, from Jan. 25 to March 16, 2024. Promoted by Alchemilla, the exhibition is produced as part of ART CITY Bologna, the institutional program of exhibitions, events and special initiatives promoted by the City of Bologna in collaboration with BolognaFiere in conjunction with Arte Fiera.

The Painting Race involves the staging of six “radio-controlled paintings” equipped with wheels, arranged within a closed circuit that runs through all the rooms of the exhibition space. The Painting Race aims to overturn the common perception of paintings on canvas, precious, static and untouchable objects that are normally to be admired without physical contact. Within the exhibition, by contrast, the paintings become mobile works, available for the public to pilot along the track that winds through Alchemilla’s evocative 18th-century rooms. The circuit, which visually evokes a brutalist, minimalist sculpture, is counterbalanced by a series of fabric works, bleach-painted and custom-made to fit within the mirrors already present on the walls of the Palazzo’s rooms. Through this playful and participatory dimension, The Painting Race aims to cancel the canonical distances between works and visitors, mocking the highly competitive dynamics that characterize the context of art fairs. The public, in these cases generally relegated to the role of passive spectator, becomes the protagonist within the exhibition, driving the works solo or going so far as to challenge other visitors in a “painting on wheels” competition.

During the days of ART CITY Bologna, a series of team performance competitions designed to pit representatives from different professional categories of the art world against each other are scheduled.

CANEMORTO is a trio of anonymous Italian artists, active since 2007. They wear masks, speak an unknown idiom and worship a canine deity called Txakurra, spreading his mysterious cult through “six-handed” works that exploit a variety of media. CANEMORTO has exhibited his work in solo shows at Museo TAM (Matera), MATTA (Milan), Spazio C21 (Reggio Emilia), Centre Culturel Jean-Cocteau (Paris), Litografia Bulla (Rome), Studio Cromie (Grottaglie), Kapow (Ghent), Viafarini (Milan). He has participated in group exhibitions, performances and screenings in galleries and institutions including MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome), MARCA (Catanzaro Museum of Arts), Artmossphere Biennale (Moscow), Triennale (Milan), Museo Etnografico del Friuli (Udine), Galleria Varsi (Rome), Palazzo Fazzari (Catanzaro), Encore (Brussels), USF Verftet (Bergen), Above Second Gallery (Hong Kong), V9 Gallery (Warszawa), Urban Spree (Berlin),TOLK Gallery (Nizhny Novgorod) and FIFTY24MX Gallery (Mexico City).

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

You will find the official website of CANEMORTO by clicking here.

Pictured: CANEMORTO, The Painting Race - Sketch #1, (2023)

Six paintings exhibited in Bologna... radio-controlled. It is the project of the trio Canemorto

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