Art of Inexperience
dal 18/5/2011 al 19/5/2011
Segnalato da
18/5/2011
Art of Inexperience
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga
A seminar about the relation between art and history. Lecturer the curator Simone Menegoi
A seminar about the relation between art and history. Lecturer the curator Simone Menegoi. Explainig his choice of the theme, Simone Menegoi writes: "After my first talk at kim? a person from the audience - a young Latvian scholar, Maija Rudovska - asked me an interesting question that, for lack of time and because of its complexity, I couldn't answer: "How does recent art in Western Europe deal with the history of 20th century?" This two-day talk, taking place some months after my first visit to Riga, is an attempt at answering the question. I decided to focus on Italian art (with a couple of examples from other countries) because I am particularly familiar with it, and because it makes sense with respect to the current moment: in the last two years a lively debate about the (supposed) lack of political engagement of young Italian art sparked in my country." On May 20 at 8 p.m. in the kim? lecture room, after the seminar "Art of Inexperience", a presentation of the video essay "Expired Monument, Story of a Culture Palace" (2011) will take place. Authors of the work mentioned above Maija Rudovska, and Shirin Sabahi. The film serves as a poetical document of the most popular piece of Stalinist architecture in Riga - VEF building or the Palace of Culture of the National Electrotechnical factory (Valsts Elektrotehniska fabrika). (Image: Fabio Mauri, Che cosa e' il fascismo. Performance, 1971)