Lantern With No Walls

Fondazione In Between Art Film presents the group show Lantern With No Walls, an exhibition event conceived in response to the evocative landscape of the Bernese Alps that surround the town of Gstaad in Switzerland.

For the first time, the Fondazione is showcasing a selection of works from its own collection, which is focused exclusively on the numerous expressions of the moving image in the field of contemporary art, including more than 130 artist’s films, video installations and single-channel works.

Through the selection of six video works by international artists including Saodat Ismailova (1981, Uzbekistan), Masbedo (Nicolò Massazza, 1973 and Iacopo Bedogni, 1970, Italy), Adrian Paci (1969, Albania), Thao Nguyen Phan (1987, Vietnam), Janis Rafa (1984, Greece), and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (1977, Spain), the exhibition offers a significant insight into the dynamics underpinning the collection owned by the Fondazione, which arose out of the desire on the part of its founder and president Beatrice Bulgari to support artists, scholars and institutions committed to exploring the expressive potential of moving images and the intersections between different artistic disciplines. The six works are placed in dialogue with each other against the backdrop designed by the interdisciplinary studio 2050+, founded by Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli.

At the center of the narrative of each work on view is the idea or the image of a landscape—be it a fragment of a mountain, of countryside, of a river or a forest—inhabited by symbolic or earthly life forms, human and non-human, existing in the present day or emerging from the horizons of history. In each work, the real or imaginary landscape is traversed, explored, contemplated and transcended by the main characters in a sequence of scenarios within which the act of walking and that of existing in space give rise to metaphors on time, the human impact on the environment, the reverberation of the past in the present, and the immensity of the forms of life.

Curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, Alessandro Rabottini, and Paola Ugolini, Lantern With No Walls serves as a “panorama of panoramas,” a mosaic of landscapes and scenarios that blend into each other and imply a continuous osmosis between past and present, human and non-human, individual existence and collective existence. The symbolic form of the lantern evokes the need for a light source that allows us to traverse both the landscape and life itself, even when the clouds seem to be gathering on the horizon.

Beatrice Bulgari, founder and president of Fondazione In Between Art Film, states: “This new exhibition by the Fondazione brings together works by artists whom I admire and who continue to inspire me, in a place as inspiring as Gstaad. The magnificence of this landscape, and the silence and contemplation that it induces in those who are immersed in it, form an ideal context in which to give the public access to works in the collection that address important themes with great subtlety, as if whispering. I hope that the local community and the international audience alike will appreciate these powerful, heartfelt visions of the artists on show, as well as the experience that we have endeavored to orchestrate by placing these works within the elegant spaces of Tarmak22.”

Lantern With No Walls is a further step on the journey of experimentation into the relationship between moving images and architecture, on which the Fondazione set out with the exhibitions Penumbra (2022) and Nebula (2024), both staged at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto in Venice. In both of these cases, the aim was to “flesh out” the moving images and immerse visitors in a space in which sounds, images, materials and spatial interventions combine to make the viewing of the works a more perceptual and three-dimensional experience.

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The cultural programme of Fondazione In Between Art Film is focused on the role of contemporary moving images and the support of international artists, institutions, and research centres exploring the dialogue between different disciplines. The Fondazione investigates the boundaries of time-based media—film, video, performance and installation—through commissioning and producing new works, organizing exhibitions and public programs, collaborating with international institutions, and producing editorial projects. The Fondazione continues and expands the work of the production company In Between Art Film, which from 2012–2019 supported video and filmic productions by international artists and directors.