A three-day talk on contemporary art starts in Noli: it's Art Dialogues

Scheduled to take place in Noli (province of Savona) on June 8, 9 and 10, 2018, is the third edition of Dialoghi d’Arte, a successful contemporary art festival that once again this year sees a high-level program. The Ligurian village becomes a center of culture and debate on the contemporary with Italian and international personalities who will give life to a rich review, enlivened this year by the art installations of important artists such as the duo Bianco-Valente, Marina Ballo Charmet, Marta Dell’Angelo, Giulia Marchi, Bianca Novizio and Faiza Butt. “The Ligurian village of Noli, a symbol of ancient local traditions and one of the most evocative seaside resorts of the Western Riviera,” the presentation reads, “will become a center of culture and debate on the contemporary, through conversations, installations and different types of artistic testimonies that will take place throughout the three days. The theme of the spectator’s relationship with contemporary art, its institutions and figures, will be addressed as in the festival’s tradition in a program of talks that develop a precise research aimed at focusing on who the spectator is today. The opening of the festival on June 8 is dedicated to the history of contemporary art and the particular case of Calice Ligure, which, in the 1970s, was the stage for the artistic production of some big names of the contemporary scene.” “The aim,” the note continues, “is to create a moment of dialogue, discussion and research on the spectator of visual art in our days, dedicated to rethinking the role of the contemporary art audience and its fruition path.”

This will be followed over the three days by talks by some important personalities: Lorenzo Balbi and Stefano Zuffi, who will talk about the expectations created between the cultural institution and the public and how these affect the process of building the museum’s identity; Cesare Biagini Selvaggi, who will analyze the relationship between the public and emerging artists; and again Giovanna Amadasi and Ivan Bargna, who will address the issue of public access and involvement in the activities of art institutions. Then there will be Philip Cave, who together with Faiza Butt and Luca Bochicchio will talk about contemporary-oriented research and educational programs, Boris Groys, who together with Andrea Canziani, director of the festival’s Scientific Committee, will delve into the participation of the viewer in the self-contradictions and paradoxes of the contemporary, in a discourse that starts from the scale of the work, to the museum and finally to the city. Then it will be the turn of Cecilia Guida and Carlo Antonelli, who will offer a historical reflection on the theme of performance and the involvement of the public in the completion of the work.

As for art installations, however, Bianco-Valente in collaboration with chef Giuseppe Ricchebuono of the starred restaurant Il Vescovado di Noli will propose the intervention Food Chain to develop a reflection on the relationship between art and food, and how it is reworked and then consumed. Marina Ballo Charmet will present a video and sound installation on the interference relationship between light, water, and sky, characteristic of her floating and peripheral vision, whilearta Dell’Angelo will put anthropological research on the human body at the center of her work for the festival. The two artists will exhibit their installations inside the church of San Francesco, while outside Faiza Butt, one of the most influential contemporary Pakistani artists, will be present with an intervention of her own, making East and West dialogue and contributing in an original way to the innovation of Noli’s urban scene. Giulia Marchi will exhibit in the church of Nostra Signora delle Grazie, belonging to the Bishopric complex, a work dedicated to silence and John Cage. The Loggia della Repubblica Nolese will feature a performance by Bianca Novizio, dedicated to the theme of unconfessed truths and public interaction with art.

Below is the full schedule of talks. For info you can visit www.dialoghidarte.it. Art Dialogues is organized and promoted by Fondazione Cultura Noli and is part of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage initiatives. Media partner Artribune.

June 8, 10 a.m.
Loggia of the Republic of Noli
Festival Opening.

When Liguria was contemporary. Calice Ligure from the 1970s to today The opening of the festival is dedicated to the history of the contemporary. In the 1970s Calice Ligure was the stage for the artistic production of some big names of the contemporary scene, immersed in an essentially agricultural Ligurian territory. The testimonies of Nicolò Scarabicchi, architect and graphic designer, author of the posters of the exhibitions and installations of those years, are compared with those of Adriano Bocca, an artist and ceramist from Albisola who was present in Liguria during that same period.

June 8, 7 p.m.
Church N. S. delle Grazie - Bishop’s Palace.
Cesare Biasini Selvaggi and Gloria Bovio
Emerging artists and audience

Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, art historian, curator and editorial director of Exibart, and Gloria Bovio, director of the festival and the Cultura Noli Foundation, dialogue on the relationship between young talents working on the contemporary art scene and the public, also exploring the role that art news outlets have in helping the viewer approach today’s new artistic languages.

June 8 10 p.m.
St. Francis Church
Lorenzo Balbi and Stefano Zuffi
Building an identity for a museum

Lorenzo Balbi, artistic director of the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna and Head of the Modern and Contemporary Art Area of the Bologna Musei Institution talks with Stefano Zuffi, art historian and President of the Friends of the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, about the collaboration and expectations that are created between the cultural institution and the public, including through the involvement of private associations to build a museum’s identity.

June 9, 7 p.m.
Loggia of the Nolese Republic
Ilaria Crotti with Andre Benei and Massimo Lafronza
Books, covers and publics

Ilaria Crotti, fake Demetrio bookstore, talks with Andrea Benei, director of the publishing houses Sido and GRRRz, and Massimo Lafronza, graphic designer, founder of Xxystudio, in a conversation devoted to the links between contemporary graphic design and publishing, to explore the connections between the reading public and graphic design, a meeting point between different forms of contemporary art and a trait-d’union between writing and the reader.

June 9, 12 noon
Sirito
Faiza Butt, Philip Cave and Luca Bochicchio
Involving people, creating audience

Philip Cave, director of Arts Council England’s Engagement and Audiences program, and Faiza Butt, artist and member of The Citizens Foundation TCF’s Art for Education project, and Luca Bochicchio, art critic and curator of MuDA Museo Diffuso Albisola, dialogue about contemporary-oriented research and educational programs, their possibilities and success in the goal of engaging new audiences in the cultural life of the area.

June 9, 3 p.m.
Piazza Milite Ignoto
Tiziana Andina and Stefano Castelli
Why Art Matters. Reflections on the contemporary nature of art

Tiziana Andina, professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Turin, and Stefano Castelli, art critic and curator, dialogue on the meaning of contemporaneity in art from the themes of philosophy of art and social ontology, to explain the relationship that each of us experiences between ethics and aesthetics when we are in the role of spectator in front of the provocations of the contemporary.

June 9, 5 p.m.
Sirito café
Stefano Castelli and Gloria Bovio
Truth and populism in the relationship between work and audience

Stefano Castelli, art critic and curator, and Gloria Bovio, director of the festival and the Cultura Noli Foundation, dialogue on the theme of the relationship between artwork and viewer from the radical experiences of opening the work to the public in the early 20th century, to the foibles of more recent mass cultural consumption and the position taken in this context by a contemporary art and culture journal such as Artribune.

June 9, 7 p.m.
Garibaldi Square
Boris Groys and Andrea Canziani
Going Public

Boris Groys, philosopher, art critic, media theorist, and Andrea Canziani, architect, contemporaryist and director of the Scientific Committee of the festival, dialogue on the relationship between work, artist and viewer starting from his involvement in the self-contradictions and paradoxes of the contemporary, in a discourse that starts from the scale of the work, to the museum and finally to the city.

June 9 9:30 p.m.
St. Francis Church
Francesca Pasini, Marina Ballo and Marta dell’Angelo
Art and cultural rights

Francesca Pasini, art critic and independent curator, presents installations by Marta dell’Angelo and Marina Ballo Charmet and talks with the artists about what it means today to be able to access the contemporary art world and how this is a cultural right of every viewer that must be learned, demanded and guaranteed.

June 10, 10:00 a.m.
Victoria Terrace
Ivan Bargna and Giovanna Amadasi
On the terrain of participation: when art meets anthropology

Giovanna Amadasi, cultural planner and head of Cultural and Institutional Programs at Pirelli HangarBicocca, and Ivan Bargna, professor of aesthetic and media anthropology at the University of Milan Bicocca, talk about the mechanisms of audience participation in art activities, their fears, their preconceptions, to understand what brings viewers closer to and what drives them away from art venues.

June 10, 12:00 noon
Sirito
Cecilia Guida and Carlo Antonelli
Hey Participate.

Cecilia Guida, curator and professor of contemporary art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, and Carlo Antonelli, journalist, curator and art director, dialogue on the topic of participatory arts such as happenings, performance and body art, and the involvement of the public in the completion of the work, from the early decades of the 20th century to the present day.

June 10, 3 p.m.
Piazza Milite Ignoto
Derrick de Kerckhove and Andrea Canziani
Sociology of the Spectator. Interactive audiences and contemporary art

Derrick de Kerckhove, director of the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology, sociologist of art and media, and Andrea Canziani, architect, contemporaryist and director of the festival’s Scientific Committee, talk about today’s man as an interactive spectator, his relationship with contemporary art, and the changing ways of enjoying art in today’s world, between hyperconnection and isolation.

June 10, 5 p.m.
Garibaldi Square
Carlo Bordoni and Gloria Bovio
The protagonism of the public

Carlo Bordoni, a sociologist of cultural processes, essayist and journalist, and Gloria Bovio, director of the festival and the Cultura Noli Foundation, talk about the protagonism of the cultural public, a phenomenon that arose in the middle of the last century with the art of writing and exploded in the present day with photography in relation to the birth, growth and end of modernity and mass society.

A three-day talk on contemporary art starts in Noli: it's Art Dialogues

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