EXHIBITION: Los impolíticos
CURATED BY: Laura Bardier
DATES: December 19, 2009 – February 28, 2010
SITE: PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli | Palazzo Roccella | Via dei
Mille, 60 | 80121 Naples, Italy | [log in to unmask]
WEBSITE: http://www.palazzoartinapoli.net/losimpoliticos
PARTICIPANT ARTISTS: IVÁN ABREU OCHOA, MARCELA ARMAS, STEFAN
BRÜGGEMANN, YOAN CAPOTE, DONNA CONLON, ALEXANDRE DA CUNHA, DETANICO &
LAIN, LEANDRO ERLICH, DARIO ESCOBAR, JOSÉ ANTONIO HERNÁNDEZ -DIEZ,
GERALDINE JUÁREZ, MARCOS LÓPEZ, RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER, JORGE MACCHI,
LEO MARZ, CILDO MEIRELES, VIK MUNIZ, DULCE PINZÓN, LILIANA PORTER,
WILFREDO PRIETO, PAUL RAMIREZ JONAS, SARA RAMO, MIGUEL ANGEL RIOS,
ADRIANA SALAZAR VÉLEZ, MARTIN SASTRE, PABLO SERRA MARINO
Nicola Oddati, Cultural Councilor of the Municipality of Naples and
the Marina Vergiani, Director of PAN| Palazzo delle Arti Napoli,
present the exhibit “Los impolíticos”. The international group
exhibit, curated by Laura Bardier, offers a fresh new work of scrutiny
and analysis, reflecting upon an ‘impolitical’ vision of contemporary
feeling, and is part of PAN’s “Contemporary Documentation and
Lexicons” initiative. The exhibition presents approximately forty
works by artists from countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela, which (not to
deny each its individual characteristics and their regionalisms) have
several challenges in common, but also several solutions. Moreover,
there is a constant demand in these countries for the classification
of one’s political orientation and ideological tendencies. “Los
impolíticos”, in fact, presents the work of 26 artists – some
established, some up-and-coming – intent on building a lexicon able to
define facts and things within contemporary reality from a clear-cut
rather than generic point of view.
As the Neapolitan philosopher Roberto Esposito suggests, those words
and expressions with which we usually define politics, as it turns
out, leave behind certain areas that are impossible to think about or
to express. This limitation derives from the challenges inherent in
the category of “representation,” but is also due to the fact that
chaos does not reside neatly within the ‘polis,’ but within human
beings themselves.
The expression “Los impolíticos” indicates the nature of the
exhibition project as a whole, which focuses our attention on some key
areas of the Americas, ones inter-connected by cultural, political and
historical characteristics. Even more significantly, these have
recently developed a critical sensibility with respect to the
debunking of modernity’s self-legitimization. The exhibit presents a
collection of works held to be significant, which proffer possible
answers to matters that affect us all, albeit with a vision tinged by
regional, local and personal perspectives.
Among these is Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s work, which intersects the
numerous possibilities afforded by interactive and audiovisual
technologies; the divergent interpretation of Miguel Angel Rios and
Marcos López to tell of the kaleidoscopic reality within the same
region; the impotence of defining stable and functional systems as
told by the contingent universes of José Antonio Hernández-Diez and
Adriana Salazar Vélez; Paul Ramirez Jonas’s irony for talking about
contemporary malaise; the irreverent shots of modern icons by Dulce
Pinzón; the unmistakable play of verisimilitude and the illusion of
reality offered by Vik Muniz; the canny linguistic codifications by
Detanico & Lain.
Some of the artists participating in the exhibition – such as Rafael
Lozano-Hemmer, Marcela Armas, Iván Abreu Ochoa, Adriana Salazar Vélez
– will meet the press and the public at the inauguration on December
19; audio interventions and music selections will be performed during
the opening soirée of “Los impolíticos”. The exhibit is produced by
the Board of Culture of the Municipality of Naples, and by Mondadori
Electa.
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Press Preview Saturday, December 19, 2009 12 P.M.
Opening Saturday, December 19, 2009 7 P.M.
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