FATE PRESTO
Ex convent of Santa Sofia, Salerno
5 ARTISTS FOR 5
CURATORS IN EMERGENCY
Salvatore Lacagnina
for Jota Castro
Vera Riera for Claire Fontaine
Eugenio Viola for Carlos Garaicoa
Anne Marie Bonnet for Mariangela Levita
Giuseppe Fonseca for
Giulia Piscitelli
On Saturday, 2nd February, 2008, at 7 p.m. there will be in the Church
of the Addolorata the opening of Fate Presto, in the structure of the ex
convent of Santa Sofia in Salerno. This is an exhibition sponsored by the
Council of Salerno and the Filiberto Menna Foundation.
During the last few months Naples and one part of the Campania region
have been in the headlines for the refuse emergency which has gradually taken
on scandalously worrying dimensions, transmitting, yet again, a terrible image
of a territory already burdened with contradictions and lacerations. The social
emergency, the environmental degradation, the dioxin risk, the impotence of the
political class, hardly give the dimensions of a situation which has become
unbearable.
These circumstances have produced Fate Presto, a project by Emanuela
Adinolfi, Letizia Magaldi and Rocco Orlacchio, with a title which is
deliberately evocative and provocative, taken from the first page of “Il
Mattino”, defunctionalized and immortalized by Andy Warhol who made an art
piece from it for Terrae-Motus, an exhibition organized by Lucio Amelio the day
after the earthquake of 1980. Fate Presto intends to stress the reasons for an
emergency, produced this time not by the destructive forces of nature but by
the not less catastrophic forces of men, the intolerability of which we are
forced to live with to the point of addiction.
Fate Presto, that is, 5 artists – Jota Castro, Claire Fontaine, Carlos
Garaicoa, Mariangela Levita, Giulia Piscitelli – invited to produce site-specific
works for the deconsecrated church of the Addolorata, in the structure of the
ex convent of Santa Sofia in Salerno, supported by 5 curators – Anne Marie
Bonnet, Giuseppe Fonseca, Salvatore Lacagnina, Vera Riera, Eugenio Viola –
called to critically interpret their work. Five artists, used to challenging
themselves with social questions, called upon here to produce works inspired by
the situation of emergency, to contribute to the work of denouncement and
social awareness. Five critical contributions to produce further ideas, to
reinforce a theme that from ethics becomes aesthetics, in the conviction that
art still has a strong social and political function.
5 p.m. Round Table. Meeting room in the Structure of the ex Convent of
S. Sofia
The artists and curators will be present.
Fate Presto: Church of the Addolorata. Structure of the ex Convent of
Santa Sofia
Largo Conforti, Salerno
3rd -29th February 2008, Tuesday/Sunday 10 a.m./1p.m. – 5 p.m./8p.m.
Info: Tel: 3393153399; 3281789396; 089254707 email: fatepresto@gmail.com
Bus service from Naples for the day of the inauguration: leaves 2nd
February 3 p.m. near Hotel de Londres (Piazza Municipio n.64) to allow
journalists and those interested to attend the event. Returns 9p.m. For
bookings: South&Coast Agency Tel. 089 241542
Biographic notes
Artistis:
Jota Castro (Lima, 1965). Lives and works in Brussels
Exhibitions, among others: Istanbul Biennial and Moscow Biennial (2007);
Emergency Biennial, Paris-Brussells-Bolzano-Grozny (2005); Kwangju Biennial,
Korea (2004); Venice Biennial (2003)
Claire Fontaine is a based collective founded in 2004 which operates in
Paris.
Exhibitions, among others: Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Kunsthalle Zürich,
New Mueum of Contemporary Art, New York; Tate Modern, London, Istanbul
Biennial; Lyon Biennial (2007)
Carlos Garaicoa (Havana, 1967) lives and works between Havana and
Madrid.
Exhibitions, among others: ICA Institute of Contemporary Art,
Philadelphia, USA (2007); Moca, Los Angeles (USA), Liverpool Biennial, Moma,
New York (2006); Venice Biennial (2005)
Mariangela Levita (Aversa 1972). Lives and works in London.
Exhibited in private galleries in Naples and Colonia. She has also
participated in: Incursione Vesuviana, Mostra D’Oltremare (2004); Molfalcone
Gallery (2003); Napoli Zero (2002), Castelli in Aria (2001), Castel Sant’Elmo,
Naples.
Gilulia Piscitelli
(Naples 1965)
Exhibited in private
galleries in Naples and Colonia. She has also participated in: Vesuvius, Moder
Museet, Stoccolma (2007); Incursione Vesuviana, Mostra D’Oltremare, Naples
(2004).
She will take part in the next Berlin Biennial (2008).
Curators:
Salvatore Lacagnina (Siracusa, 1973). Lives and works between Siracusa
and Milan.
Freelance curator and director of the Civic Gallery Montevergini,
Siracusa.
Vera Riera (Buonos Aires, 1980). Lives and works in Paris.
Art historian and contemporary art critic.
Eugenio Viola (Naples, 1975). Lives and works in Naples.
Freelance art critic and independent curator.
Anne Marie Bonnet (Friburgo 1954) Lives and works in Colonia.
Professor in Art History, Bonn University, curator and contemporary art
critic.
Giuseppe Fonseca (Genova 1960). Lives and works between Naples and Bari.
Professor in Modern History at the University of Bari.
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