Spazio Berlendis
Quayola / between art and technology
What is the relationship between artificial intelligence and artistic practices? What contribution can the use of algorithms and personalized software make to contemporary art? Can we speak of a materiality inherent to digital recasts of artworks? These and similar questions will be the basis for the presentation of the monograph Quayola / (Skira edizioni, 2021), with the participation of researcher and curator Valentino Catricalà, artist Quayola and curator Federica Patti on Saturday, March 12 at 6:30 pm at Spazio Berlendis (Venice). The talk will take place in conjunction with the finissage of the group exhibition AT WORK! Lavoro, società e comunità nell’arte contemporanea, curated by Ilaria Bignotti and ACME Art Lab and made possible by the loans and support of the galleries representing the artists, Marignana Arte (Venice) and Piero Atchugarry Gallery (Miami). In dialog with the fundamental principles of the Festival della Pace 2021 (Festival of Peace) – the political or community value of work, dialog and collaboration, resilience and participation in the fundamental rights of humanity, themes more relevant than ever – and promoted by the Presidency of the City Council and the Department of Culture of the City of Brescia, the exhibition took place in two venues, Spazio Berlendis in Venice and MO.CA in Brescia. Fifteen artists of different generations and cultural geographies participated at the exhibition, many of them from Central and South American countries, selected for their attention to the themes of work and materials, transformation and change.
The tough and compelling title AT WORK! is intended not only as an appeal to artists to continue to intervene in society with works that are able to break through the common view and shed light on the most burning issues and prophecies, but also as a call to the social community to continue to recognize and protect the artist’s work, a fundamental tool for the analysis and vision of the present, focused on the future, in its social, cultural, human and political implications, in the broadest and deepest sense of the word.
The message conveyed by the fifteen invited artists through their works – Serena Fineschi (Siena, 1973), Silvia Infranco (Belluno, 1982), Marco Maggi (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1957), Giulio Malinverni (Vercelli, 1994), Albano Morandi (Salò, 1958), Lorenzo Passi (Milan, 1985), Maurizio Pellegrin (Venice, 1956), Túlio Pinto (Brasilia, 1974), Quayola (Rome, 1982), Dagoberto Rodriguez (Caibarién, Las Villas, Cuba, 1969), Arcangelo Sassolino (Vicenza, 1967), Yūken Teruya (Okinawa, 1973), Verónica Vázquez (Treinta y Tres, 1970) – aims to reflect on the value of the artist’s radical involvement in the present and explains the urgency of returning to the direct, physical and living experience of materials and contemporaneity.
The presentation of the monograph Quayola / revisits these themes but combines them in the specific meaning that has the artistic practice of Quayola. The monograph summarizes Quayola’s artistic journey by exploring the algorithmic esthetic of his work, which has evolved from the relationship between man and machine, through texts by leading scholars and curators of contemporary art. Curated by Ilaria Bignotti and ACME Art Lab.
With the fundamental support of
Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami
Marignana Arte, Venice.
Spazio Berlendis
Cannaregio 6301, Venice
