Fondazione In Between Art Film announces the publication of a richly illustrated catalogue to accompany Nebula, the group exhibition commissioned and produced by the Fondazione at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, Venice, from April 17–November 24, 2024, on the occasion of the Biennale Arte 2024 in Venice.
Edited by Bianca Stoppani with Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi, this volume expands on the making of Nebula and offers an in-depth look at the curatorial concept, the exhibition scenography, and the creative processes and poetic concerns of the eight video-installations by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (1983, Cyprus/1983, USA), Giorgio Andreotta Calò (1979, Italy), Saodat Ismailova (1981, Uzbekistan), Basir Mahmood (1985, Pakistan/Netherlands), Cinthia Marcelle and Tiago Mata Machado (1974, Brazil/1973, Brazil), Diego Marcon (1985, Italy), Ari Benjamin Meyers (1972, USA), and Christian Nyampeta. All eight works are commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film, the institution conceived by Beatrice Bulgari to promote the culture of moving images and support international artists, museums and theorists that explore the dialogue between disciplines and time-based media.
The book opens with a visual essay commissioned to Venice-based photographer Giacomo Bianco. As part of the earliest stages of the exhibition’s communication campaign, this atmospheric overture captures a series of cloudy skies and sunsets over the city of Venice.
The essays by the exhibition curators Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi reflect on the temporal and spatial implications of their curatorial position, and share their ongoing dialogue on matters of exhibition making and spectatorship when it comes to the display of moving images.
A section of the book is dedicated to each of the eight artworks, containing a chronological selection of stills from the filmic component of the installation, its production credits and synopsis, and a specially commissioned essay and visual contribution that, together, explore onto the worlds beyond the frames. Karen Archey, Natalie Bell, Nasrin Himada, Emily LaBarge, Paolo Pecere, Philippa Snow, Xiaoyu Weng, and Isobel Whitelegg were invited to write in personal or elective proximity to the artists and their work at the same time as probing the realm of art and film writing through experimental formats.
Pivoting around the extensive photographic documentation of the exhibition at the core of this book, the graphic design conceived by Lorenzo Mason Studio attends to the heterogeneous written formats and the visual sources in each section. At the same time, it refracts here the experience sought for and propelled by the eight video installations as they were woven together by the scenographic interventions devised by 2050+, the interdisciplinary agency founded by Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli that transformed the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto into a “sensory architecture,” as he defines it in his essay at the end of the book.
This catalogue, published by Marsilio Arte, accompanies the exhibition along with Thick Atmospheres, the symposium curated by Bianca Stoppani and organized in collaboration with Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia, at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi on October 17–18, 2024.
The book is available to order online via Marsilio Arte e-shop.
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Fondazione In Between Art Film was founded in Rome in October 2019 with the mission of promoting the culture of moving images and of supporting international artists, institutions, and research centers that explore the dialogue between disciplines and the boundaries between film, video, performance, and installation. Under the guidance of its founder and president, Beatrice Bulgari, Fondazione In Between Art Film aims to contribute to the international artistic debate by furthering the role and potential of moving images in our time.