(ANSA)- Rome, October 13 - After skipping an edition, the
16th Rome Quadriennial opened Thursday with a large collection
seeking to document trends in Italian art.
Paintings, sculpture, photography, videos, installations
and performance art will all be part of the event normally held
every four years, running this year through January 8, 2017.
Some 150 works from 99 artists have been grouped into 10
exhibition projects by 11 young curators.
The show's title - Other Times, Other Myths - is inspired
by the 1990 non-fiction collection 'A Post-Modern Weekend.
Chronicles of the Eighties' by Italian author Pier Vittorio
Tondelli (1955-1991).
The Quadriennial was inaugurated yesterday by Italian
President Sergio Mattarella, accompanied by Foreign Minister
Paolo Gentiloni and Culture Minister Dario Franceschini, as well
as Quadriennale di Roma Foundation chief Franco Bernabè and
Palaexpò commissioner Innocenzo Cipolletta.
Eight years after the last one was held, the Quadriennale
"has returned with high-level choices, young Italian curators
and significant variety on offer, of a significant quality,"
said the culture minister.
Franceschini added that the lack of a 2012 edition had
threatened to "interrupt a long, glorious international
tradition".
"Contemporary art is always an exploration," Franceschini
noted after the visit. "There are things one can appreciate and
understand, and others that puzzle you a bit".
Bernabè noted that "we sought out curators aged between 30
and 40 and asked them for a project each. They were subsequently
selected by a commission made up of intellectuals and experts
from the art world. Ten were selected for a total of 11
curators, who were able to get about a hundred artists
involved".
The 11 curators of this edition with 10 sections are Simone
Ciglia and Luigia Lonardelli, Michele D'Aurizio, Luigi Fassi,
Simone Frangi, Luca Lo Pinto, Matteo Lucchetti, Marta Papini,
Cristiana Perrella, Domenico Quaranta and Denis Viva.
Themes include the digital world, the relationship between
cities and nature and that between urban centers and
peripheries, the value of democracy, and explorations of human
relationships in their intimate sphere.
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