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QUI. New release
Development, projects, and thought of the new generation of Italian critics and curators
Saturday, June 19 and Sunday, June 20, 2004, GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Bergamo will host the event ''Qui. New release - Development, projects, and thought of the new generation of Italian critics and curators'': the first forum organized to give young Italian curators a chance to meet and discuss the present and future.
The idea of transforming ''Qui'' this year into a conference dedicated to young Italian curators emerged from a discussion between Giacinto Di Pietrantonio (the Director of GAMeC) the founders of UnDo.Net (online network of contemporary culture) and the young critics belonging to the Synapser group. Giacinto Di Pietrantonio decided to commission organization of the event by Synapser, which prepared its program.
Synapser is a networking project conceived by UnDo.Net to create new operating synergies and new possibilities for work by young Italian curators. The following individuals collaborate on the project ''Qui. New release'': Katia Anguelova, Laura Barreca, Marco Izzolino, Luigi Negro, Alessandra Poggianti, Angela Serino and Elvira Vannini.
''Qui. New release'' will unfold non-stop over two days (Saturday, June 19, and Sunday, June 20 from 10:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.) and involve over forty young curators from all over Italy.
''Qui. New release'' aims to create a situation that will catalyze the energies and experiences of the emerging generation of Italian curators, in order to take the bearings of opinions, perspectives, problems, and creativity, develop an analysis of possible approaches to work and offer opportunities for growth through the exchange, connection, and presentation of ideas that can be confirmed by the audience. The program of speakers will provide ample opportunities for discussion with all the participants and thus facilitate a stimulating, constructive, amusing and in-depth debate.
The young curators who have been invited boast diverse backgrounds and experiences: master's degrees, internships, collaboration with journals, affiliation with the art "system," and also experience with public or private exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Their differences and affinities will be compared and contrasted during the course of the conference. Synapser sent each participant a list of questions in order to focus their attention on certain issues of particular urgency that regard the figure of the curator, thereby orienting the presentations to be made at the GAMeC and stimulating further questions.
On occasion of ''Qui. New release'' Synapser will present an installation (composed by wallpaper and a selection of artists' videos) containing commentary, outlines, interviews, and works. This diverse material was collected and accumulated over the past several months of collective work, stimulated by the opportunities (including organization of Qui. New release), but also the workshop-in-progress dimension that characterizes Synapser. Language, the impossibility of communicating, or the desire to do so in the most diverse ways gave life to narrations, dynamics of encounter and relation from which were developed common or contrasting views, impulses, and participation by artists and curators as if they were on parallel tracks running through the creative process.
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Saturday, June 19 and Sunday, June 20, 2004. Two days of encounters and dialogue with over forty presentations by young Italian curators. From 10:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo
Via San Tomaso, 53 - 24121 Bergamo, tel. 035.399528
Info:
synapser@undo.net
http://undo.net/synapser
Concurrently at GAMeC:
On occasion of the opening evening of Musei di notte/La Notte dei Musei 2004 ("Museums by Night/Museum Night 2004"):
Saturday, June 19
7:30 p.m. inauguration of:
Dedicato ai bambini nati dal 2000 in poi ("Dedicated to the Children Born since 2000") by Alberto Garutti
Photographs executed after the project ''Ai nati oggi'' ("To Those Born Today") commissioned from the artist by A.C.E.B. in 2000.
Omaggio a Mario Sironi ("Homage to Mario Sironi")
About ten important paintings lent to GAMeC by Bergamo collectors offer an ideal tour of Mario Sironi's presence in the city of Bergamo.
Palestra out:
Vi-Con by Luca Bertini, performance
Palestra is an initiative addressed to the youngest members of the contemporary art world, staged throughout the space of GAMeC.
8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
drinks and DJ in collaboration with the Associazione Culturale P.V.C.
Continuing exhibitions:
Alighiero Boetti, Quasi Tutto
a retrospective dedicated to one of the most influential artists of the postwar era (until July 18)
Another Zero curated by November Paynter
The winning projected of the first annual Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per l'Arte - EnterPrize dedicated to curators under the age of 30 (until June 20)
Palestra - Fifth edition
In circle by Dragana Sapanjos
Raccolta Stucchi ("Stucchi Collection")
Eighteen works by 20th century masters (including Burri, De Pisis, Hartung, Magnelli, Music, Nicholson, Parmeggiani, Sironi,…) donated to the museum in 2004 (until July 18)
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