“LA VIDEOARTE IN EUROPA” ALLA GALLERIA DE’ FOSCHERARI – Bologna – dal 6 aprile
Dopo la brillante inaugurazione al cinema Lumière, avvenuta nell’ambito della Notte Bianca di Artefiera, con un doveroso omaggio a Marina Abramovic, una protagonista indiscussa dell’arte del nostro tempo, la rassegna dedicata a La videoarte in Europa 1970-1980 prosegue, come già annunciato, alla Galleria de’ Foscherari a partire da giovedì 6 aprile.
Galleria de’Foscherari
GIOVEDI 6 APRILE ORE 18.00
Raum Sehen und raum horen (Austria/1974) di VALIE EXPORT (9’22”)
Breath text breath: Love Poem B (Austria/1970-73) di Valie EXPORT (2’23”)
L’arche de Nam June Paik (Francia/1981) di Jean Paul Fargier (22′)
Three Pieces (Paesi Bassi/1983) di Nan Hoover (10′)
I feel like boiled milk (Paesi Bassi/1980) di Lydia Schouten (12’05”)
Totale: 55’50”
GIOVEDI 13 APRILE ORE 18.00
Vidicon inscriptions (GB/1973) di David Hall (6’10”)
Rhyme and reason (Ucraina/1978) di Peter Weibel (37’33”)
Quelques souvenirs de jeunesse (Francia/1974) di Christian Boltanski (14’43”)
Totale: 57’86”
GIOVEDI 20 APRILE ORE 18.00
Monotor 1 (GB/1975) di Steve Partrige (6′)
Image is virus (Croazia/1983) di Dalibor Martinis (20′)
Der widerspruch der erinnerungen (Germania/1982) di Marcel Odenbach (14′)
Das feenband (Germania/1983) di Ulrike Rosenbach (15’30”)
Totale: 55’30”
GIOVEDI 27 APRILE ORE 18.00
L’entr’apercu (Francia/1980) di Robert Cahen (9′)
L’invitation au voyage (Francia/1973) di Robert Cahen (9′)
Juste le temps (Francia/1983) di Robert Cahen (13′)
ABC of reading (Germania/1979) di Jochen Gerz (9’32”)
Meeting point (Croazia/1978) di Sanja Ivekovic (6’09”)
Personal cuts (Croazia/1982) di Sanja Ivekovic (3’40”)
I’m not the girl who misses much (Svizzera/1986) di Pipilotti Rist (5′)
Totale: 54’61”
GIOVEDI 4 MAGGIO ORE 18.00
Death valley days (GB/1984) di Gorilla Tapes (20′)
Chanoyu (Croazia/1983) di Sanija Ivekovic e Dalibor Martinis (11′)
Actions (Spagna/1972) di Antoni Muntadas (13′)
Entre chien et loup (Germania/1989) di Bettina Gruber (6’56”)
Passe pas seul (Germania/1988) di Bettina Gruber (4’01”)
Rituels 81 (Francia/1982) di Catherine Ikam (13′)
Totale: 67’57”
After a splendid kickoff at Cinema Lumière during Artefiera’s Notte Bianca, with a necessary tribute to Marina Abramovic, an unchallenged pioneer in contemporary art, the festival La videoarte in Europe, 1970-1980 will continue as announced at Galleria de’ Foscherari, starting Thursday, April 6.
This initiative, conceived and organized by the Cineteca di Bologna and the gallery itself, includes five more screenings: one on every Thursday in April at 6 PM, and a final evening on May 4. The program, which was developed with substantial input from Lola Bonora, founder and for many years director of the Centro Video Arte in Ferrara, is meant to offer an exhaustive overview of electronic art in Europe from 1970 to 1990, presenting viewers with a selection of works by the figures who were most significant in terms of their cultural impact and artistic achievement.
This is the third festival co-produced by the Cineteca and the gallery, following up on the ones dedicated to video art in Italy (spring 2015) and the parallel artistic phenomenon that exploded in the United States (early 2016).
Now comes the turn of the rest of Europe, in an effort to show the very best that the Old World―from Spain to Ukraine, by way of France, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Croatia, without overlooking Great Britain and the Netherlands―has produced in this still vibrant field of art.
The twenty-odd artists in the festival are not all as well-known in Italy as Jean-Paul Fargier, Robert Cahen, and Christian Boltanski (this country’s cultural contacts with France were always more intense than with other nations in Europe), but are all highly representative of a cultural and artistic climate that left a deep mark on our era. All screenings are open to the public free of charge.