You Got to Burn to Shine: an exhibition at GNAM chronicles the complexity of the individual in being in the world

by Redazione , published on 05/02/2019
Categories: Exhibitions / Disclaimer
From Feb. 5 to April 7, 2019, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome is hosting the exhibition 'You Got to Burn to Shine'

From Feb. 5 to April 7, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome is hosting the exhibition You Got to Burn to Shine, whose title (meaning “To shine you must burn”) is borrowed from the famous collection of poems by the American poet, artist and performer John Giorno (New York, 1936) and emphasizes the complexity of the individual in being in the world and, in parallel, propitiates its construction as a subject.

The exhibition, curated by Teresa Macrì, has the ambition to narrate, through a game of cross-references and connections, the discords and processes of redefining the system-world and its aesthetic interpretation in the post-ideological era. You Got to Burn to Shine also aims to analyze how the work, within the art display, can explicate critical thinking and represent new mental geographies both individual and collective. And, above all, to explore what devices can be triggered to transform one’s positions into aesthetic-visual suggestions touching the collective consciousness; what paradigms can be activated, in an ever-changing present, to subvert concepts and stereotypes and configure a universe of meaning.

Artists in the exhibition: Francis Alÿs, Bertille Bak, Elena Bellantoni, Jeremy Deller, Roberto Fassone, John Giorno, Luca Guadagnino, Mike Kelley, Krištof Kintera, Domenico Mangano & Marieke van Rooy, Fiamma Montezemolo, Luca Vitone, Sislej Xhafa. For all information you can visit the official website of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art.

You Got to Burn to Shine: an exhibition at GNAM chronicles the complexity of the individual in being in the world
You Got to Burn to Shine: an exhibition at GNAM chronicles the complexity of the individual in being in the world


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