Finding oneself among the stars: in Carrara, installation by duo Antonello Ghezzi

The art duo Antonello Ghezzi, who were presented in Carrara with theCosmic Tree in Piazza Duomo, return to the city from March 23 to June 2, 2024 at the mudaC | museo delle arti Carrara with the site-specific installation Trovarsi tra le stelle, promoted by the Municipality of Carrara and curated by Cinzia Compalati. The Antonello Ghezzi return for the third time to work in a UNESCO creative city, proving themselves to be witnesses of creativity as a means of urban and community regeneration. Antonello Ghezzi’s intervention at mudaC stems from a reflection on contemporaneity and the growing distance between virtual platforms and the reality of squares.

Despite hyperconnection, we are disconnected from interiority and the deep meaning of life. At mudaC, Ghezzi has harnessed marble consciously, with a circular economy approach. He created a basic Christmas tree module that will be reinterpreted each year by a different artist. The installation Trovarsi tra le stelle, designed for Carrara, will transform the space dedicated to temporary exhibitions. Viewers, deprived of their cell phones that often obstruct each other’s vision, will find themselves in a lunar space, with marble dunes reminiscent of Carrara’s quarries and a remote planet atmosphere. Binoculars will show two people seemingly looking at each other, with an unusual structure composed of periscopes emerging from the earth and the universe. Using images provided by the European Southern Observatory and NASA, the Earth and stars of the Milky Way will be observed from a distant perspective. Looking out of the periscope, you will recognize yourself in another person’s eyes.

Notes on the artists

Nadia Antonello (Cittadella, 1985) and Paolo Ghezzi (Bologna, 1980) trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and founded the duo Antonello Ghezzi in 2009. Their research focuses on lightness and magic. Their projects that have seen them exhibited in many parts of the world, with the support of numerous institutions, attempt to make fairy tales tangible.

Their installations are part of numerous private collections and have been presented, along with performances, in Italian and international contexts, including: Museo Plaza Cielo Tierra in Córdoba (Argentina), Italian Cultural Institute in Santiago de Chile, Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid, Italian Embassy in Athens, WhiteSpaceBlackBox in Neuchâtel, Kunsthall in Bergen, Beit Beirut, Wayfarers in Brooklyn in New York, European Parliament in Brussels, Gnration in Braga in Portugal, Museum for the Memory of Ustica in Bologna, Miasto Ogródowice in Katowice, Palazzina dei Bagni Misteriosi in Milan, Artbab Manama in Bahrain, Sound Design Festival in Hamamatsu, Japan, Italian Cultural Institute in Athens, Art Foundation in Athens, Davia Bargellini Museum in Bologna, Usina del Arte in Buenos Aires, Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna, Villa Croce Museum in Genoa, Moscow Biennale, Pitti Uomo in Florence, Sarajevo Winter Festival, Blik Openerdi Delft, Arsenale in Verona, and CIFF in Copenhagen. In 2022 they won the Contemporary Art Plan promoted by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity by having their Milky Way flag acquired as a permanent work at the Rocca dei Bentivoglio Foundation. In 2023, the CAMeC Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of La Spezia dedicated to them the exhibition Terra Cielo Iperuranio, the duo’s first anthological exhibition, curated by Eleonora Acerbi, from which came the monograph of the same name published by Metilene with critical texts by Cinzia Compalati and Cesare Biasini Selvaggi.

Finding oneself among the stars: in Carrara, installation by duo Antonello Ghezzi

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