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11/6/2015

Little is left to tell (Calvino after Calvino)

Il Salotto - Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona

The Blueproject Foundation presents "Little is left to tell (Calvino after Calvino)," the new group exhibition of the Blueproject Foundation that can be seen at Il Salotto from June 12 th until October 31 st 2015. The exhibition brings toge ther 12 works, grouped in pairs , which analyze each of the predictions that the writer Italo Calvi no held in his posthumous book Si x Memos for the Next Millennium: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity and consistency.

Curated by Aurélien Le Genissel and Renato Della Poeta , the exhibition includes works by important artists like Sophie Calle, Xavier Veilhan , Elmgreen & Dragset, Dora Garcí a, Gianni Motti , Laurent Grasso, Ignasi Aballí, Rafael Lozano - Hemmer, Michael Sailstorfer, Ryan McGinley, Daniel Firman or Sam Taylor - Johnson.
One way for the foundation to pay tribute to the writer when it is the 30 th anniversary of his disappearance and 15 th of the new millennium.

In 1985, the year of his death, the great Italian writer Italo Calvino was to deliver a series of six lectures for the prestigious Harvard University’s "Charle s Eliot Norton Lectures Poetry".

Calvino d ied a week before heading Harvard, on September 19 th 1985, and he ne ver presented these conferences but they resulted in a book called Six Memos for the Next Millennium . In this text, the author offers an exercise of theoretical anticipation proposing six concepts that, according to him, wi ll mark the evolution of culture at the beginning of the third millennium: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity and consistency.

"We are in 1985, just fifteen years separate us from the beginning of a new mil lennium ". That i s how Six Memos for the Next Millennium begins. Just 15 years after the new millennium, also celebrating the 30 th anniversary of his death, Blueproject Foundation wants to reply to the message sent by Calvino to the attention of future generations, to our attention.

"Litlle is left to tell (Calvino after Calvino)", the new exhibition presented by the foundation from June 12 th until October 31 st 2015, reflects on the importance and role of these proposals in today's world through contemporary a rt. Initially it is a literary reflection but Calvin o already presented it as a general evaluati on of the aesthetic debates to come. "It's perfectly natural to us that, in the definition of the “Norton Lectures Poetry", the term poetry is understood in an open way, to the point of being able to include music or visual arts", he said.

"Litlle is left to tell" brings together 12 works, grouped in pairs, which analyze the predictions of Calvino. Has the world achieved the ironic and melancholic lightness craved by the author or has it rather been invaded by shallowness and insignificance? What can visibility means in a time when everything is image, look ing and espionage? Does technology and science have made the world more precise or, at contrary, increased noise and non - essential information? Can art propose a different temporality, denser and more essential, that the permanent acceleration that seems to haunt us?

The exhibition is not intended to give definitive answers but ra ther to expose the aesthetic challenges to come that were already pointed out in the prophetic book of Calvino.

We find that there is no better tribute to Calvino, 30 years after his death, than to answer him, through time, and to actualize the concerns that haun ted him and that, 15 years after the new millennium, sound as recent as back in 1985.

The foundation wants to thank the Galerie Perrotin, MUSA C, Rafael Tous and Marí a de Corral for their collaboration.

Press contact: Gerardo Peral T 933 301888 T 637 818238 g.peral@blueprojectfoundation.org

Opening: Friday June 12th 19h00

Il Salotto
Carrer Princesa 57 - 08003 Barcelona
Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Last admittance at 7.45 p.m.
Closed August 15th
Free entrance

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