Thursday 16 January 2014 opens in Milan RIVOLI2 – Foundation for Contemporary Art, an innovative exhibition space able to accommodate the most current demands of contemporary culture.
The rooms of Rivoli2 – 140 square meters arranged on four levels – will be offered to young artists and curators who will propose a project specially designed to be developed in a non-traditional exhibition space.
Rivoli2 it will be an incubator of projects capable of revealing the synthesis of accomplished artistic research and supporting experimentation, open to the plurality of expressions of the artistic and creative world; a participatory Foundation which aims to forge links with local and international public institutions, to involve important personalities in the cultural field and to deal with similar Italian and foreign realities, promoting and documenting the path of emerging artists, curators and creatives in general, who will find a showcase and an opportunity to make themselves known and enter into relations with the various representatives of the world of art and with the public.
During the various exhibition moments, cultural proposals will alternate, also in collaboration with Academies and Universities such as open studio, round tables, public actions, performance, study visit, workshop.
The Foundation relies on the support of a Scientific Committee, made up of personalities from the cultural and artistic world and from Milanese civil society.
The first event, scheduled from 16 January to 2 March 2014, will be the exhibition by Marco Bongiorni (Milan, 1981), entitled EPITOME/HEAD/FEAR.
With EPITOME/HEAD/FEAR, Marco Bongiorni presents the research carried out over the past four years, the result of which is a complex and articulated set of installations, drawings, sculptures and paintings. The project develops around the incessant practice of drawing and the questioning of its functioning to probe its possibilities. Bongiorni explores this practice in its most analytical details, constantly questioning its mechanisms, in different ways and on different surfaces: notebooks, old papers, posters, wooden tables become the places to investigate the peculiarities of drawing.
It is no coincidence that the exhibition itinerary opens, in the basement space, with a video that documents the procedural nature of graphic language. In the video, an old bicycle is transformed into a drawing machine, called Obaobabike, through which it is possible to reflect on the limits and strengths of drawing from life.
On the mezzanine floor of Rivoli2 we will encounter the large installation "Untitled_Teste Nere", made up of drawings, sculptures and found objects, the interpretation of which generates the impossibility of conveying uniqueness and intentions, in a
continuous attempt to create correspondences and links that are often impossible. In this case, Bongiorni's drawings mark a path and a way of reading that the viewer must undertake independently.
The exhibition ideally closes in the upper room, occupied by some single works which, by condensing different instances, represent the compendium of the feeling and techniques linked to his research.
EPITOME/HEAD/FEAR during the opening period, it includes a didactic appendix with a contemporary drawing workshop, conferences and meetings with the artist.
Biographical notes
Marco Bongiorno (Milan, 1981) is an Italian visual artist.
After attending the Brera Academy, he graduated from Naba in 2003 where, in 2005, he began working as an assistant in Claudio Olivieri's painting course and Emanuele Mocarelli's drawing course. In 2005 she attended the Color Design master's course at the Liguria Color Observatory in Genoa. He is currently a drawing teacher at Naba.
Milan, November 2013
RIVOLI2 – Foundation for Contemporary Art
Milan, via Rivoli 2 (MM Lanza)
Inauguration: 16 January 2014 at 18.30
Show:
Marco Bongiorno
EPITOME/HEAD/FEAR
From 16 January 2014 to 2 March 2014
Free admission
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Friday 16.00-19.30; Saturday 14.00 -19.30
On all other days it is possible to visit the Foundation by appointment
Information:
Phone: + 39 02 84140208
Fax: +39 02 22228928
