The very young Julian Charrière is on display at MAMbo in Bologna.

The very young French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière (Morges, 1987) is the protagonist, from June 9 to September 8, 2019, of the solo exhibition All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere scheduled at MAMbo in Bologna and curated by the director of the Bologna museum himself, Lorenzo Balbi. Charrière was trained in the circle of Olafur Eliasson, and he immediately came to the contemporary art scene with profound and provocative reflections on the critical and conflicting relationship between the world of technology and the natural world.

Julian Charrière’s works are born to reveal the invisible forces that shape the landscape, from geological phenomena to the digital age’s thirst for resources, without excluding, on a more intangible level, the cultural projections by which humanity changes the meaning and perception of places. Through a series of works, including videos, photographs and installations, touching on the history of science, the development of media culture, the romance of exposure and the contemporary ecological crisis, Charrière induces us to a visual and conceptual meditation on the contemporary geographical imaginary.

Always interested in the processes behind the production of scientific knowledge and the different methods used to arrive at a discovery, through his works Charrière seeks to understand history by looking to the past to try to imagine what the future will look like. Like a kind of archaeologist, the artist peers into history to understand the future while reflecting on the present, and he does so in the field, traveling to remote regions with extreme conditions: the so-called impossible places on earth from which to bring out not the sheer beauty of nature, but the vulnerability and the rift between nature and civilization.

The exhibition, titled All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere, is curated by Lorenzo Balbi and is open until Sept. 8.

For all information you can call +39 051 6496611, send an email to info@mambo-bologna.org or visit Mambo’s official website.

The very young Julian Charrière is on display at MAMbo in Bologna.

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