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CityLifeArtLine Milan: program for Art Week 2022CityLifeArtLine Milano 2022
The exciting yearly program of inaugurations and initiatives of Milano Art Week 2022, that from 28 March to 3 April will spread to the entire city and to the public and private institutions dedicated to modern and contemporary art, returns this year with an important public art event.
Friday 1 April at 12.30 pm ArtLine Milano– the public art project of the Municipality of Milan dedicated to the introduction of twenty permanent artworks in the CityLife Park – is presenting three new works: Atrio dello sguardo sul futuro by Mario Airò, Padiglione Rossoby Alfredo Jaar, and Guardiansby Kiki Smith.
The works by Mario Airò, Alfredo Jaar and Kiki Smith are an addition to the first nine site-specific interventions already installed in the park by artists Riccardo Benassi, Judith Hopf, Maurizio Nannucci, Adrian Paci, Ornaghi & Prestinari, Wilfredo Prieto, Matteo Rubbi, Pascale Marthine Tayou and Serena Vestrucci. Further works by Rossella Biscotti, Elisabetta Benassi, Jeremy Deller, Shilpa Gupta, Adelita Husni-Bey, Liliana Moro, andOtobong Nkanga are currently in the making and will be installed in the future.
Atrio dello sguardo sul futuro by Mario Airò (Pavia, 1961) is an underground sculpture, surmounted by an external bronze dome and inspired by the so-called “Liver of Piacenza” or “Etruscan Liver” (dating back to the second to first century BCE). By reversing the traditional way of understanding this divinatory object, the artist presents it to the viewer as a ceiling coinciding with the celestial vault.
“Atrio dello sguardo sul futuro is an environmental installation inspired by the ‘spatial-environmental’ vocation of Milanese avant-garde art,” explains Mario Airò.“It is inspired by the Liver of Piacenza, a small late-Etruscan bronze object that served as a map for the reading of the sacrificial animal’s entrails. The various parts of the liver and its protuberances are made to coincide with a superimposed celestial map, so as to establish a connection between the manifestations in the organ and the influence of this or that deity. This was how the Haruspex could read signs, omens, and tell the future. The idea was to pair this ancestral, somewhat chthonic root, to a place mainly characterized by the vertical thrust of the Three Towers.”
Padiglione Rosso by Alfredo Jaar (Santiago de Chile, 1956) welcomes the visitor inside a perfectly cubic space offering an alternative view of the CityLife context. Through a large red glass window, the artist invites us to reflect through the transformed image of the surrounding reality.
“Padiglione Rosso is a frame that reduces the gigantic scale of CityLife to a more human scale,” explains Alfredo Jaar, “a modest frame that allows the spectator to see everything at once, have everything under control. Padiglione Rosso offers a space of silence and meditation. A thinking space about the state of culture and finance in our contemporary world.A thinking space about the state of culture and politics in our contemporary world. Padiglione Rosso is a space of resistance, a space of hope.”
The architectural design of the installation is by AOUMM.
Guardians by Kiki Smith(Nuremberg, 1954) consists of two bronze statues of two cats placed a short distance from one another.
“These two cats are benevolent protectors, guarding the neighborhood,” underlines Kiki Smith, “Cats are mystical companions that bring us joy and solace. These sacred animals, like many living creatures, have become perceived as burdens to modern cities. People abandon them for social and economic reasons. They are left without care and subject to disease. Often their reproductive organs are destroyed for our convenience. Like the loss of diversity in the plant world, the genetic diversity of animals is dwindling. I was inspired by the cats living in the moat surrounding Castello Sforzesco to make my piece for Citylife (ArtLine).
The inauguration will take place at 12.30 pm in the presence of the Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Milan Tommaso Sacchi, the CEO of SmartCityLife Roberto Russo, the director of the Office of Art in Public Spaces Marina Pugliese, the coordinator of ArtLine Milano Roberto Pinto and the artist Mario Airò.
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On 9 November, ArtLine Milano and Triennale Milano will host Le Relazioni oltre le Immagini, the third conference day dedicated to public artThe Relationships beyond Images
Art, Architecture, Urban Regeneration
Conference – Day Three
Triennale Milano, Viale Emilio Alemagna, 6 Milan
9 November 2019, 10.30 am-6 pm
A project by ArtLine Milano in collaboration with Triennale Milano
Triennale Milano hosts the third appointment of “The Relationships beyond Images” (Le Relazioni oltre le Immagini) program, a series of conferences exploring the current trends in public art and analyzing their relation with contemporary social space. This series is part of the “ArtLine Milano” public program, a City of Milan public art project based in the CityLife Park.
How can the artwork interact with public space, while remaining an unexpected and distinct element? How can the alliance between art and architecture change our perception of the territory?
The aim of this conference day is to examine, through the analysis of historical and contemporary case studies, the function of site-specific sculptural interventions in the urban landscape – both in the design phase and in the fruition people might make of it daily – also considering these interventions’ potential cultural and social effects, and economic impact on the territory.
Speakers: Kasper König, artistic director of “Skulptur Projekte Münster”; Akiko Miki, international artistic director of “Benesse Art Site di Naoshima”; Piero Gilardi, artist and theorist, political activist and youth culture leader; Lorenza Baroncelli, urbanist, researcher and artistic director of Triennale Milano; Alterazioni Video, artistic collective; Luca Vitone, artist.
Moderators: Katia Anguelova, ArtLine production manager; Cecilia Guida, head of the ArtLine public program; Roberto Pinto, ArtLine coordinator.
Schedule
Morning Session, 10.30 am-1 pm
10.30 am-10.45 am: Institutional welcome speeches
10.45 am-11.00 am: introduction to the conference subjects with Katia Anguelova, Cecilia Guida and Roberto Pinto
11.00 am-12.00 pm: Keynote: Sculpture against territory and nature, Kasper König
12.00 pm-1.00 pm: Keynote: Benesse Art Site Naoshima – Art Architecture Nature, Akiko Miki
Break
Afternoon Session, 2.30 pm-6 pm
2.30 pm: The bright side of Bioart, Piero Gilardi
3.10 pm: Architecture, urban regeneration and city, Lorenza Baroncelli
3.50 pm: Incompiuto, how to build an apparatus to reframe the real, Andrea Masu /Alterazioni Video
4.30 pm: Romanistan. The journey, Luca Vitone
5.10-6.00 pm: Q&A
For further information, please write to artline.milano@gmail.com
Speakers’ Biographies
Kasper König, curator of numerous exhibitions, including Andy Warhol (Stockholm, 1968), and Westkunst (Cologne Exhibition Hall, 1981). Director of the Städelschule and founding Director of the exhibition hall Portikus, Frankfurt from 1989 to 2000, he was also Head of Museum Ludwig, Cologne from 2000 to 2012; Artistic Director of Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg in 2014 and of Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, which he co-initiated in 1977.
Akiko Miki is the International Artistic Director of “Benesse Art Site Naoshima”. She has been Chief and Senior Curator at Palais de Tokyo (2000-14), Co-director of Yokohama Triennale 2017 and Artistic Director of its 2011 edition. She was also guest curator for many museums in Asia and Europe, including the Barbican Art Gallery, Mori Art Museum, Taipei Fine Art Museum and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.
Piero Gilardi is artist and theorist, political activist and youth culture leader. Founder of PAV-Parco Arte Vivente in Turin, in his work he draws from his study of the relational changes of nature and art. His recent solo exhibitions include Piero Gilardi. Collaborative Effects 1963 – 1985, Castello di Rivoli – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (2012-2013); Nature Forever, MAXXI-Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (2017).
Lorenza Baroncelli, urbanist, researcher and curator. She is currently the Artistic Director of Triennale Milano. From 2015 to 2018, councilor for Urban Regeneration for the City of Mantua, in 2015 she was the Scientific Director of 15 Rooms, the exhibition curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist; co-curator of the Swiss Pavilion with Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. From 2009 to 2011 she worked with Stefano Boeri on a number of projects including the development of the concept plan for “Expo Milan 2015”.
Alterazioni Video is an artistic collective active since 2004 whose members are Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Alberto Caffarelli, Andrea Masu, Giacomo Porfiri, and Matteo Erenbourg. They are known for Incompiuto Siciliano, an aesthetic investigation of unfinished public works; for years they have been producing Turbo Film, a film genre they themselves invented. Their work has been exhibited in museums and art institutions, including: 52nd Venice Biennale, Manifesta 7, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin, Performa New York, Rome Quadriennale.
Luca Vitone is an artist who with his practice since the second half of the ’80s has focused on the idea of place, inviting us to recognize something we already know, defying the conventions of today’s mutable, faded memory. His work explores the way places are identified through cultural production: art, cartography, music, cuisine, political associations, ethnic minorities. Vitone bridges the gap between the sense of loss of place characteristic of the postmodern and the ways in which feelings of belonging arise in the intersection of personal and collective memory. He reconstructs and invents forgotten paths to reconfigure his own personal geography. Since 2006 he has been teaching at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti-Naba in Milan.
Upcoming appointments:
Conference – Day Four
Methodology, Workshop, Participation
Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Viale Pasubio, 5 Milan
11 December 2019, 10:30-18:00 a.m.
The Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli and ArtLine Milano collaboration
Conference – Day Five
Interaction, Activation, Preservation
Palazzo Reale, Piazza del Duomo, 12 Milan
March 20, 2020, 10:30-18:00 a.m.
The Museo del Novecento and ArtLine Milano collaboration
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On 30 September, Pac and ArtLine will host Le Relazioni oltre le Immagini, the second conference day dedicated to public artThe Relationships beyond Images
Democracy, Norms, Utopias
Conference – Day Two
PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Via Palestro, 14 Milan 30 September 2019, 10.30 am-6 pm
A PAC and ArtLine Milano collaboration
PAC, the Contemporary Art Pavilion of Milan, hosts the second appointment of “The Relationships beyond Images” (Le Relazioni oltre le Immagini) program, a series of conferences exploring the current trends in public art and analyzing their relation with contemporary social space. This series is part of the “ArtLine Milano” public program, a City of Milan public art project based in the CityLife Park.
Are there any other possible forms of democracy? How does art in the public sphere become a tool for imagining and exploring a participatory democracy based on critical reflection rather than on the pursuit of consensus? What role does the artist play in a public and shared space?
This conference day, through the contributions of museum directors, theorists, curators and artists, aims to address the relationship between art, institutions and collective imagination by answering these questions from a theoretical-historical-philosophical and practical-political-artistic point of view, without neglecting the normative aspects and the limitations associated with operating in a public space.
Speakers: Irit Rogoff, Charles Esche, Antoni Muntadas, Iida Shihoko, Tania Bruguera, Federico Rahola, Olu Oguibe.
Moderators: Cecilia Guida, head of the ArtLine public program, Roberto Pinto, ArtLine coordinator, Diego Sileo, curator at PAC.
Two of the interventions will also provide the opportunity to meet two protagonists of PAC’s incoming exhibition season: Tania Bruguera, who will showcase her work at PAC in March 2020 with a solo show during Miart and Art Week, and Iida Shihoko who will curate an exhibition on contemporary Japanese art in autumn 2020, also at PAC.
Schedule
Morning Session, 10.30 am-1 pm
10.30 am-10.45 am: Institutional welcome speech, Marco Edoardo Minoja, Director of the City of Milan Cultural Area
10.45am-11.00am: introduction to the conference subjects with Cecilia Guida, Roberto Pinto and Diego Sileo
11.00 am-12.00 pm: Keynote: Becoming Research, Irit Rogoff
12.00pm-1.00pm:Keynote: The Demodernizing Possibility, Charles Esche
Break
Afternoon Session, 2.30 pm-6 pm
2.30 pm: Public? Space and Communities, Antoni Muntadas
3.00pm: Cancuratorshaveautonomyinexhibitionmaking?–FromAichi Triennale 2019, Iida Shihoko
3.30 pm: Art in synchrony with political time, Tania Bruguera
4.00pm:Notastorytopasson:notesforapoliticaltheoryofruins, Federico Rahola
4.30 pm: Engaging Public Space: Recent and Ongoing Work, Olu Oguibe
5.00-6.00 pm: Q&A
Speakers’ Biographies
Irit Rogoff is a writer, educator, curator and organizer. She is Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, a department she founded in 2002. Rogoff works at the meeting ground between contemporary practices, politics and philosophy.Her current work is on new practices of knowledge production and their impact on modes of research, under the title of Becoming Research (soon to be published). As part of the Freethought Collective, Rogoff was one of the artistic directors of the Norwegian Triennial TheBergen Assembly in September 2016 and editor of The Infrastructural Condition published in its wake. Rogoff was also co- founder in 2017 of The European Forum for Advanced Practices, a European forum for the development of a set of principles for an advanced and practice-driven form of research. In 2019, Rogoff received an honorary doctorate from Aalto University in recognition of her work indeveloping and instituting thefield of Visual Culture.
Charles Esche is director of Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; professor of contemporary art and curating at University of the Arts, London and co-directorof After all ResearchCentre. He is an advisorat Janvan Eyck Academie, Maastricht.He has (co)curated Powerand Other Things, Europalia, BOZAR, Brussels2017; ArtTurns, Word Turns, Museum MACAN, Jakarta 2017; LeMusée Égaré, Kunsthall Oslo 2017 and Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse 2016; Jakarta Biennale 2015; the 31st SãoPaulo Bienal, 2014, U3 Triennale, Ljubljana, 2011; RIWAQ Biennale, Palestine, 2007 and 2009; the Istanbul Biennale, 2005; Gwangju Biennale, 2002 amongst other non-museum exhibitions. He received the Princess Margriet Award for Culture in 2012 and the CCS Bard College Prize for Curatorial Excellence in 2014.
Antoni Muntadas, his practice addresses social, political and communication-related issues, the relationship between public and private space with in social frameworks, and investigates channels of information and ways these may be used to censor central information or promulgate ideas. He works with different media including photography, video, publications, Internet and multi-media installations. Since 1995, Muntadas has put together a set of works and projects grouped under the title On Translation. Their content,dimensions and materials are highly diverse, and all focus on the author’s personal experience and artistic activity innumerous countries over a period of thirty years.By grouping such works together under this epigraph, Muntadas places them with in a body of experience and concrete concerns regarding communication, the culture of our times, and the role of the artist and art in contemporary society.
Shihoko Iida was curator at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery from 1998 to 2009, visiting curator at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane for two years,worked for the Aichi Triennale in 2013 and the Sapporo International Art Festival in 2014, and for the Aichi Triennale in 2019.
Tania Bruguera is one of the most influential artists on the global art scene. In order to de fine her artistic practices, she has developed concepts suchas “behavior art”(arte de conducta), focusing on the limits of language and body in relation to the reaction of spectators, and that of “useful art” (arte útil), about injecting a real transformation into certain political and legal aspects of society. Her work has earned her many awards and has been showcased in several venues including Venice Biennale, Documenta, the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, MoMA, and Guggenheim.
Federico Rahola teaches Sociology of Cultural Processes at the University of Genoa, co-directs the periodical Etnografia (Il Mulino), is the author of Zone definitivamente temporanee. I luoghi dell’umanità in eccesso (Ombrecorte,2003-2015) and–with Massimiliano Guareschi – of Chi decide? Critica della ragione eccezionalista (Ombre Corte,2011) and Forme della città (AgenziaX,2015); he is currently participating in a collectivere search on migrant routes with in and around European borders.
Olu Oguibe is a multi-media artist and writer whose work often straddles minimalist formalism and social engagement. His work has been widely exhibited in museum and gallery shows, as well as biennials and triennials. He has also created several public works in many countries. In 2017 his Strangers and Refugees Monument, a public sculpture in Kassel, Germany, received the Arnold Bode Preis for documenta 14. Oguibe was Professor of Painting at University of Connecticut until 2017 when he resigned to devote his full time to art making.
Upcoming appointments:
Conference – Day Three
Art, Architecture, Urban Regeneration
Milan0 Triennale, Viale Emilio Alemagna, 14 Milan
9 November 2019, 10:30-18:00 a.m.
A Trienniale and ArtLine Milano collaboration
Conference – Day Four
Methodology, Laboratory, Participation
Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Viale Pasubio, 5 Milan
11 December 2019, 10:30-18:00 a.m.
The Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli and ArtLine Milano collaboration
Conference – Day Five
Interaction, Activation, Conservation
Palazzo Reale, Piazza del Duomo, 12 Milan
March 20, 2020, 10:30-18:00 a.m.
The Museo del Novecento and ArtLine Milano collaboration
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3 April 2019
ArtLine Milano presents Riccardo Benassi’s temporary art project at CityLife for Miart 2019On the occasion of Milano Art Week and Miart 2019 ArtLine Milano presents, as part of the public program, the temporary intervention of Riccardo Benassi, entitled Poeticizzare il deserto invece di sapere dove termina (2019).
Poeticizing the desert instead of knowing where it ends is a soundtrack composed specifically for the spaces of the Shopping District designed by Zaha Hadid at CityLife. Designed to blend into the daily music programming and then alternate with the radio, the music hits of the moment and tips for shopping, it is broadcast every hour for the duration of ten days.
Making audio exclusively with his own modified voice and aiming at repetition as a form of escape, Benassi underlines the process by which bio-capitalism, technology and contemporary architecture chase, reread and transform the organic forms of human life.
The audio track is part of a twentieth-century tradition that starts with Erik Satie’s music for furniture, Muzak’s music for lifts, Brian Eno’s music for airports and the more recent Vaporwave – thus referring to the unconscious influences that music can have on the human being who crosses a built space.
The intervention will be broadcast in the CityLife Shopping District from Wednesday, April 3 to Sunday, April 14 and will be presented on Sunday, April 7 during the guided tour of ArtLine, by the team and in the presence of the artist.
The guided tour will be at 12 noon, MiCo entrance meeting point (Metro Lille, Portello stop).
The ArtLine Milano project will be accompanied by a public programme with appointments, meetings, conferences and workshops open to the public.
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31 May 2016
Piazza Burri, MilanoFoundation StonePiazza Burri, Milano
Presentation and laying of the first two artworks selected from the competition ArtLine under 40:
“Cieli di Belloveso” by Matteo Rubbi
“Vedovelle e Draghi Verdi” by Serena Vestrucci12:00 -
3 December 2015
Palazzo Reale di MilanoCompetition and exhibition in Palazzo RealePalazzo Reale di MilanoThe exhibition about the competition ArtLine Milano. 30 projects for the Park of Contemporary Art, took place at Palazzo Relae in Milan from the 3rd of December 2015 to the 10th of January 2016.
The participating Italian artists are: Alis/Fillol, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Francesco Arena, Riccardo Benassi, Rossella Biscotti, Linda Fregni Nagler, Adelita Husni-Bey, Nicola Martini, Margherita Moscardini, Ornaghi e Prestinari, Alice Ronchi, Matteo Rubbi, Elisa Strinna, Nico Vascellari e Serena Vestrucci; and the foreigners: Maria Anwander, Mircea Cantor, Shilpa Gupta, Eva Kotátková, Maria Loboda, Armando Lulaj, Marie Lund, Haroon Mirza, Marlie Mul, Amalia Pica, Wilfredo Prieto, Jon Rafman, Timur Si-Qin, Rayyane Tabet e Xu Zhen.
All the invited artists proposed a public art project and the jury selected and awarded eight of them. The jury was composed by Charles Esche, Mary Jane Jacob, James Lingwood, Gianfranco Maraniello, Iolanda Ratti, Lea Vergine and Angela Vettese.
The eight awarded artists are: Riccardo Benassi, Rossella Biscotti, Linda Fregni Nagler, Shilpa Gupta, Adelita Husni-Bey, Wilfredo Prieto, Matteo Rubbi and Serena Vestrucci.