Cervia, at Salt Warehouse 8 curators and 43 artists explore summer as eternal possibility

From May 17 to June 22, 2025 MAGMA presents ENDLESS SUMMER, the first edition of a three-year exhibition cycle hosted in the spaces of the Magazzino del Sale in Cervia. The project aims to explore curating as a shared practice, proposing a plural vision capable of capturing the complexity and mutability of the contemporary art scene.

ENDLESS SUMMER is proposed as a collective experience based on dialogue, where eight curators, belonging to different generations, each following their personal inclinations and specific research interests, have selected 43 female artists and visual artists - including established names from the contemporary Italian scene - to reflect together on the theme ofsummer understood as eternal possibility. A season in which time expands, light pervades everything and new perceptions emerge, opening spaces to unexpected desires and perspectives. The exhibition anchors itself to this suspended temporality, evoking it as a psychological as well as climatic condition: a time when emotion and transience merge, where excitement is intertwined with nostalgia.

The title takes its cue from Bruce Brown’s documentary of the same name Endless Summer, filmed in the 1960s, which follows a group of surfers on their journey between the two hemispheres in search of anendless summer. This very concept-the utopian idea of a season that extends beyond its boundaries-is at the symbolic heart of the exhibition: a mythical and idealized time.

The works presented range between different languages-painting, sculpture, video, photography, collage-and are placed in relation according to a fluid and non-hierarchical curatorial logic, a kind of exhibition jam session where the resonance between the works arises from spontaneous affinities, trust and mutual listening.

ENDLESS S UMMER is meant to invite you to experience the exhibition in the same spirit with which you experience summer: with intensity, openness and the awareness that every moment is both full and destined to fade away.

Art direction is by Viola Emaldi and Alex Montanaro.

Curators and curators: Vittoria Caprotti, Viola Cenacchi, Rossella Farinotti, Davide Giannella, Gioele Melandri, Ornella Paglialonga, Giovanni Rendina, Valentina Rossi.

Artists and performers: Yuri Ancarani, Thomas Berra, Thomas Braida, Ermanno Brosio, Martina Bruni, Michele Bubacco, Jacopo Casadei, David Casini, Francesco Cavaliere and Lorenzo Mason, Goldschmied & Chiari, Adelaide Cioni, Giovanni Copelli, Lucia Cristiani, Rudy Cremonini, Giovanni De Francesco, Roberto DePinto, Jeremy Deller, Ettore Favini, Roberto Fassone, Oliviero Fiorenzi, Christian Holstad, Mino Luchena, Jonathan Monk, Davide Monaldi, Luca Nostri, Ornaghi & Prestinari, Bruno Peinado, Alessandro Pessoli, Marta Pierobon, Leonardo Pivi, Aronne Pleuteri, Luigi Presicce, Andrea Renzini, Salvo, Pierluigi Scandiuzzi, Mario Schifano, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Thea Vallé, Vedovamazzei, Flaminia Veronesi, Carlo Zauli.

ENDLESS SUMMER is made possible thanks to the contribution of the Municipality of Cervia.

Admission is free.

For more info. www.magma.zone

Cervia, at Salt Warehouse 8 curators and 43 artists explore summer as eternal possibility

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