22/3/2001
Cesare Pietroiusti
Platform, Vasa
Invited to exhibit at Platform, the Italian artist Cesare Pietroiusti sent a list of seventy-five proposals (his so called "Non functional thoughts") among which the group of Vaasa artists could choose one to be realized for this occasion. In order to promote, within the local community, a discussion on the limits, and on the possible meaning of contemporary art, these artists decided to make an investigation on what is believed to be "certainly not art".
Platform´s current exhibition is a project proposed by Cesare Pietroiusti
and realized together with a group of artists connected to Platform, Eija
Leinonen, Tuomo Väänänen, Serafima Borotinskij, Ulrika Ferm, Mia Damberg,
Fia Antus, Albert Braun, Maria Nordbäck Hannah Kaihovirta-Rosvik and Peter
Rosvik. These artists asked 100 persons in Vaasa to show them something
that is certainly not art and then to lend it for the exhibition. A certain
number of objects and descriptions or documentation where therefore
collected and exhibited.
Invited to exhibit at Platform, the Italian artist Cesare Pietroiusti sent a
list of seventy-five proposals (his so called "Non functional thoughts")
among which the group of Vaasa artists could choose one to be realized for
this occasion.
In order to promote, within the local community, a discussion on the limits,
and on the possible meaning of contemporary art, these artists decided to
make an investigation on what is believed to be "certainly not art".
By exhibiting these "certainly not art" objects in an art gallery an
interesting paradox arises. The different levels of authorship represent
another important aspect of this project. The authorship, in fact, ranges
from the initial proposal of one artist, through the active cooperation of a
group of artists, to the final decisions and choices of one hundred people.
With Cesare Pietroiusti´s words, a "Non functional thought" can be "a way of
observing fragments of reality, of creating connections among events,
people, places, perceptions, or beliefsÅ an idea that is not directly
determined by carrying out an activity, and therefore appears without a
reason". His practice is "an attempt to better articulate these thoughts by
building a communicative context in which they can be recognized by others
as part of a shared patrimony."
Hopefully such recognition can contribute, in a simple way, to offer
different ways of thinking, perceiving, and looking at things.
This exhibition is a part of the Platform project "Creative society" based
on involving members of the community who do not professionally deal with
art.
Opening Friday 23.3 at 18
Open
Thursday - Friday 12-18
Saturday - Sunday 12-16
PLATFORM
Kirkkopuistikko 19 A
65100 VASA, Finland
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