EXHIBITION GUIDE ENG PART Piazza Cavour 26, 47921 Rimini (RN) INFO [email protected] +39 0541 793879 – are essentially intended as a physical ne- 3. CARSTEN HÖLLER HALL 1 cessity and the manifestation of a state of Born in Brussels, Belgium in 1961. He lives mind. The work at the entrance of the PART and works between Stockholm and Biriwa emerged from this context. It comes from in Ghana. the temporary floor of Cantiere1 / Terrazzo After graduating in agronomy from the 000, created in Naples for the SS. Trinità University of Kiel in 1993 with a doctorate delle Monache with the Matronage of the on insect behaviour, Carsten Höller has Donnaregina Foundation for Contempo- been one of the most interesting artists on rary Arts / MADRE. A great architectural the international scene since the 1990s. His painting: a dialogue between Piazza work is aimed at identifying new possibili- Cavour, the back garden and the Federico ties for the perception of existence through Fellini International Museum. Roberto Coda a rigorous method of investigation that Zabetta trained in Rome at the Art Institute, comes close to the scientific one, and whi- and later at the Brera Academy in Milan. He ch reflects on the various forms that natural worked as an assistant to Aldo Mondino evolutionary forces can take on in their from 1995 to 2005. relationship with human emotivity. By invi- ting the public to undergo highly controlled 2. ALESSANDRO BUSCI experiences of participation (psychological Born in Milan, 1971, where he lives and and perceptive experiments, which are works today. often also playful), the ‘sensory mechani- Busci’s pictorial research is characterised sms’ and structures designed by Höller are by constant experimentation with uncon- in fact able to stimulate states of attraction, ventional techniques and supports such as excitement, doubt and confusion in the enamels and acids on steel, iron, alumi- individual user. Over time, the ever-increa- At the entrance. manent mural work created by the artist in nium and copper, as well as his attention sing degree of experimentation of his works DAVID TREMLETT 2020 for the entrance of the PART, together to the materiality and concreteness of the has led the artist to create complex environ- Born in St Austell, UK, in 1945. He lives and with the participants to the San Patrignano pictorial and calligraphic stroke. Capable mental installations that also include plants works in Bovingdon, UK. workshops. of translating landscapes and memories and animals with the aim of facilitating the After graduating in sculpture from the of cities into evocative atmospheres and various forms of interactivity that involve the Birmingham College of Art and the Royal 1. ROBERTO CODA ZABETTA urban visions through the search for colour whole range of our senses. College of Art in London, active since the Born in Biella in 1975, he lives and works (with decidedly expressionist tones and end of the Sixties, David Tremlett establi- in Milan. a magmatic consistency), Busci’s works 4. GIANLUCA DI PASQUALE shed himself internationally in the 1980s He made his own first pictorial experiments seem to want to launch a sort of hymn to Born in 1971 in Rome, he currently lives and thanks to his wall drawings: large murals around 1999, in a small studio where he Futurism, but with less heroic emphasis on works in Milan. painted directly on different surfaces, ma- began to paint a series of faces portrayed change than that promulgated by Filippo Gianluca Di Pasquale studied painting at the king interventions, permanent or temporary, in the foreground, initially using black and Tommaso Marinetti in 1909. His subjects all Academy of Rome and attended the Aca- both in museums and in public or private white, and colour only from 2004 onwards. belong to the peripheral urban landscape. demy of Fine Arts in Granada for a year. His spaces, which reflect the deepest and most Demonstrating a strong and recognisable Stations, construction sites, industrial wa- artistic production plays out on a figurative articulated connections between art and stroke right from the start, these works rehouses and stadiums are all immortalised pictorial level, with particular attention to the architecture. His wall drawings constitute seem to express a single flow, a gesture in twilight, as if to underline the insistence landscape element, dotted with archi- the best known and most consistent part on the verge of shattering the image itself. on the poetics of the suburbs, typical of tectural details, figures in the distance and of his production, and are characterised by In 2017, his practice changed radically, Mario Sironi and many American pain- plants painted with precise, and rhythmic the use of colour pastels spread freehand going beyond the intimate dimension of the ters of the 1930s. A painter and architect, brushstrokes within broad white spaces that on the surfaces. Among the most recent studio to open up to the outside in search Alessandro Busci has collaborated with the constitute places of meeting and mediation interventions are the church of Coazzolo in of a dialogue with the territory, architectu- Atelier Mendini in Milan since 1997, with between nature and civilisation. Forever in Piedmont, the Bloomberg London Building, re and landscape. This gave rise to major which he carries out projects in architectu- search of harmony and balance between the Santa Chiara Complex in Bari, and a site-specific installations (i.e. specifically re, decoration and exhibition design, such an anthropocentric and a natural stance, fresco in the deconsecrated chapel of the designed for space) where abstract layers as that at the Museo Teatrale alla Scala and his most recent influences include Henri Relais San Maurizio, in the Italian province of colour – spread in a whirling movement the Palazzo Reale in Milan. Matisse, Pierre Bonnard and Henri Rousse- of Cuneo. From the ceiling, down is the per- of brushes, spatulas and compressed air au. Speaking of his works, the artist states: “Usually my work starts out from a photo- graphic image, and in transferring it to the HALL 2 painting, I carry out a sort of subtraction of the landscape from it. This operation beco- mes painting itself; an echo of the landsca- pe remains, a sort of ghost that is present throughout my paintings.” 5. EMILIO ISGRÒ Born in 1937, in Barcellona di Sicilia (ME). He lives and works in Milan. A poet, and conceptual painter and also a novelist, playwright and director, Emilio Isgrò created one of the most revolutionary and original works as part of the so-called Second Vanguards of the 1960s. Interna- tionally known for the art of ‘erasure’ that began around 1964 – which he himself defines as a philosophical and anthropolo- gical phenomenon that reinforces commu- nication where it apparently denies it – this act of eliminating words and images from a printed book, not in order to destroy them but to preserve them, must not be conside- 6. YAN PEI-MING 7. VANESSA BEECROFT red merely a metaphor in his practice, but a Born in Shanghai in 1960. Today he lives Born in Genoa in 1969. She lives and works real and concrete action. Influenced by the and works in Dijon, France. in Los Angeles. liveliness of Visual Poetry that was sprea- Growing up in the delicate climate of the In Vanessa Beecroft’s performances, the ding throughout Italy at the time, the Sicilian Chinese revolution during which radical ci- bodies of more or less naked young women artist began to work first on excerpts from vil and political changes marked his youth, appear isolated and frozen beyond an invi- newspapers in which he drew out meanings in 1981 Yan Pei-Ming moved to Dijon, Fran- sible barrier, and their mutism produces the extraneous to the context, and then moved ce, where he built his artistic career over the strange effect of ‘bouncing’ the onlookers’ on to texts of existing covers, encyclopa- following two decades. Internationally re- gaze back onto them. The work here exhibi- edias, manuscripts, books, maps and films, cognised for his immense portraits inspired ted represents Beecroft herself: she created always with the intention of renewing the by Chinese cultural history and the tradition it during her research trip to South Sudan meaning, seeking a balance between the of Western portraiture, the French-Chinese in 2006. It depicts a twentieth-century verbal and the iconic through the act of artist mainly depicted famous icons and Virgin as she breastfeeds children who are manipulation. historical figures (such as Mao Zedong, not her own. Her images are always driven Bruce Lee and Barack Obama) who had a by specific choreographies: perspective, profound influence on him and his contem- focal point and symmetry are elements poraries. The artist managed to exploit the that haunt the artist’s work, and that are pop halo of the subjects he chooses, trying directed across an invisible chessboard to present a communicative image that is in space. Beecroft’s artistic research is, in meaningful in every place and time. Carried fact, entirely imbibed in a sense of classici- out with energy and imagination, Pei-Ming’s sm, with particular sensitivity to the Italian expressionistic portraits are made up of Renaissance tradition, which is a substantial long, fast, almost violent brushstrokes and source of nourishment for her poetics. After a predominantly monochrome palette with graduating from the Brera Academy of Mi- occasional touches of dark red, using a te- lan in 1993, from a very young age Vanessa chnique that relies on Chinese watercolour Beecroft showed a propensity towards the but also classic European oil painting. compositional construction and staging of tableaux vivants (or living pictures) that deal set was directed towards experimentation later also using pastels, watercolours and Cucchi, Nicola De Maria and Mimmo with issues concerning women, the gaze, in the field of sculpture, seeing potential in oils.