Massimo Bartolini to represent Italy at Biennale Arte 2024

20 April–24 November 2024

Massimo Bartolini's major project Due qui / To Hear, curated by Luca Cerizza is now open at the Italian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

The project for the Italian Pavilion engages with the theme of the biennale, Stranieri Ovunque / Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. It offers a new slant on the idea, suggesting that to avoid being foreigners, we must start by not being foreigners to ourselves. In this sense, 'listening to the self' is a crucial way to understand the individual's position in the world and in all the relationships that one weaves within society.

The presentation consists of sculptures, installations, sound works, and performances, with a range that is charcateristic of the artist's practice, it aims to create a context of experience. Visitors to the Pavilion move through three areas built around different forms of motion and stasis, acoustic experiences, and meeting points. All of the works respond to the physical characteristic of each exhibition space, without adapting any form of display.

Read the full project text via the Due qui / To Hear website.

Public Programme

IF ONLY WE HAD EARS

The Public Program accompanying Due qui / To Hear, curated by Luca Cerizza in collaboration with Gaia Martino, will focus on several key themes raised by the project of the Italian Pavilion and by Bartonlini's practice.

Each month over the course of the presentation there will be two days of public programme initiatives held in the Giardino delle Vergini next to the Italian Pavilion.

Friday 17–Saturday 18 May 2024

The Politics of Listening (Listening in Relation)

Friday 14–Saturday 15 June 2024

Trusting the background (Listening with Nature)

Friday 12–Saturday 13 July 2024

Mediation in-Action (Listening to Oneself)

Friday 13–Saturday 14 September 2024

What You Do For Me (Listening to the Machine)

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