Noli is all about contemporary art this summer. Also with a work by Adrian Paci

It will start on July 1, in Noli (province of Savona), the cycle of conversations oncontemporary art that, with reference to Friedrich Nietzche’s philosophy, is titled Intemperate Considerations and will see the participation of different art personalities who, in each of the five meetings, will address a different topic related to contemporary art. The conversations will take place five Saturdays, from July 1 to August 5, always at 9:30 p.m., in Stettini Square in the center of the Ligurian town. Directing the event, which is now in its second year, is Gloria Bovio, who is supported by a scientific committee composed of Massimo Recalcati, Francesca Pasini, Andrea Canziani and Giovanni Agosti.

It will start on Saturday, July 1, with The Secret of the Work, curated by Massimo Recalcati. How to read a work of contemporary art? What secrets lie behind its surface? What messages does it try to send us? These are the questions Recalcati, a renowned psychoanalyst of Lacanian extraction, contributor to the cultural pages of Repubblica and author of essays on psychoanalysis, many of them dedicated to the figure of Jacques Lacan, will try to answer. On July 5, on the other hand, Valerio Terraroli, an art historian specializing in art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and teacher of art history at the University of Verona, will hold the meeting A Founder of Contemporary Art: Marcel Duchamp, which aims to investigate the figure of one of the most controversial and at the same time most influential artists in history.

Sin of Novelty, on the other hand, is the title of the lecture by Francesca Pasini, an art critic and independent curator who has worked in the most prestigious Italian venues (from the Rivoli Castle to MaMBO in Bologna via the Museo del Novecento in Milan and MART in Rovereto): the meeting will be held on Saturday, July 22. The following week, on the 29th, it will be the turn of Stefano Bartezzaghi, a teacher of Semiotics and Theories of Creativity at Iulm in Milan as well as a journalist and writer, will propose to see Contemporary Art as a Game. Finally, on August 5, art sociologist Nathalie Heinich will entertain a conversation entitled Classic, Modern, Contemporary.

This will be enriched by a videoart work by Albanian artist Adrian Paci (Shkoder, 1969), who rose to international art prominence after participating in the 2006 Venice Biennale and gaining great public acclaim with his very famous installation Centro di Permanenza Temporanea. At the Church of San Francesco, also in the center of Noli, the public will be able to admire his 2017 work Rasha: a 20-minute, 56-second video installation that will open on Saturday, July 22, at 7:30 p.m. and will be on view Friday through Sunday, from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m., until Aug. 27. The work addresses the theme of migration as seen through the story of a woman, Rasha Miech, of Palestinian descent, who arrived in Italy from Syria. A work that “gives face to the elaboration of the private pain of a public tragedy that takes place every day before our eyes.”

“If art is a narrative,” reads the presentation of the cycle, “the contemporary one uses everyday words: simple objects, mass productions and even scraps that, starting with Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades, have upset the way we evaluate the artistic operation. Many times the meaning of these stories appears impenetrable to the viewer. Yet the artist sends a message to those in front of him or her, using an aesthetic language that solicits in the recipient the elaboration of an interpretation. The narrative of contemporary art wants to engage and provoke us, to shake us from apathy, to tell us another story than the one we seem to know. We are no longer just spectators; our intervention is necessary to the fulfillment of the narrative of the work itself, but we don’t know it.” Untimely Considerations is organized by the Noli Culture Foundation, under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture.

Image: Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. photo credit

Noli is all about contemporary art this summer. Also with a work by Adrian Paci

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