Bonollo Foundation explores the body and mind with two new exhibition projects

The Sandra and Giancarlo Bonollo Foundation for Contemporary Art in Thiene presents two new exhibition projects: Body in Motion, curated by Chiara Nuzzi, and Sanatorium by Polish artist Tomasz Kowalski, curated by Elisa Carollo. Both exhibitions opened on Saturday, May 23: Body in Motion will be on view until Nov. 7, while Sanatorium will be open to the public until Sept. 30. With these new exhibitions, the Foundation continues its discussion with artists and curators from the international scene, who have been invited to dialogue with the Foundation’s spaces and its experimental vocation. The aim is to give life to new projects that offer new keys to interpreting the present and contemporaneity.

The exhibition Body in Motion brings together works by Monica Bonvicini, Talia Chetrit, Sam Durant, Mona Hatoum, Klara Lidén, Valerio Nicolai, Joanna Piotrowska, Margherita Raso, Moira Ricci, Diamond Stingily and Alessandro Teoldi from the Sandra and Giancarlo Bonollo Collection. The exhibition addresses the theme of the body as an instrument of relationship and investigation of the human experience. Constantly subjected to the gaze of others, the body appears traversed by constraints, limits and conditioning that affect its freedom; at the same time, however, it emerges as a vital force capable of expressing identity, emancipation and transformation. Indeed, even today the body still represents a physical and symbolic space of resistance, vindication and affirmation of one’s existence, emotionality and individuality.

Through installations, photographs, sculptures, weavings and paintings, the artists offer different perspectives in which the body manifests itself as a changing and permeable presence capable of absorbing tensions, preserving memories and generating new relationships with oneself, others and the surrounding space.

With Sanatorium, Tomasz Kowalski instead presents a reflection on the multiple dimensions of perception and reality. In his most recent works, the artist uses the metaphor of the sanatorium and the psychiatric hospital as places suspended outside ordinary time, where memory, emotions, hallucinations and perceptions intertwine in an ambiguous and liminal dimension. The figures painted by Kowalski seem to constantly inhabit a threshold between imagination and physical reality: bodies, environments and atmospheres are transformed into metaphors, while painting takes on the role of a psychological and mnemonic device, capable of rendering images and presences unstable.

Designed specifically for the spaces of the Bonollo Foundation, housed in a former religious and psychiatric complex, the exhibition dialogues with the historical and psychological memory of the building, interweaving it with both the artist’s personal experience and Władysław Strzemiński’s reflections on visual perception and the limits of language in defining what we see.

Bonollo Foundation explores the body and mind with two new exhibition projects

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