Punto Zero. An object that wanted to change the world, is an exhibition curated by the students of the School for Curatorial Studies Venice. The students have developed a curatorial project investigating the invisible qualities of objects. Through installations, sculptures, sound, and site-specific performative events, the visitor will have the opportunity to confront the nature of the objects that surround us.The exhibition can be visited between the 13 and 21 of May at Istituto secondario di primo grado Pier Fortunato Calvi, located between the Giardini and the Arsenale of the Venice Biennale.

Oli Bonzanigo

Punto Zero. An object that wanted to change the world, is an exhibition curated by the students of the School for Curatorial Studies Venice. This event has been created in collaboration with Video Sound Art Milan, a festival and production centre of contemporary art, Coordinated by Laura Lamonea (artistic director and curator) and Thomas Ba (curator). The students have developed a curatorial project investigating the invisible qualities of objects. Through installations, sculptures, sound, and site-specific performative events, the visitor will have the opportunity to confront the nature of the objects that surround us. The exhibition can be visited between the 13 and 21 of May at Istituto secondario di primo grado Pier Fortunato Calvi, located between the Giardini and the Arsenale of the Venice Biennale.

  
An object is a physical entity, that in its tangibility, contains values, narratives and memories. It is a medium but also an origin, a starting point for narrating and remembering, a punto zero. The space of the school symbolizes the place of our first encounters with socialization, and therefore it is where hierarchies are set and experienced. Reflecting in this way the dynamics of society. Resembling a punto zero where power relations get established through the arrangement of desks, chairs, and other objects.

  
The objects are charged with both individual and collective memory. They become, through the artists’ interventions, tools to reactivate these memories and evoke new ways of relating to them. The desk, the blackboard, the bell, are therefore protagonists of the performances. Inviting the visitors to reflect upon the power of objects to create relations with society and individuals. Punto Zero is an intervention that aims to involve all visitors in the exhibition by welcoming contributions such as images, texts, sentences and drawings that summarize what was or is an object that changed the world. Creating an archive, all of these contributions will be set up in a dedicated room dealing with the curatorial research that the students have been investigating in the past months.

  
Punto zero is an object, any. But which object wanted to change the world? 

  
The artists participating in the exhibition are Alvise Bittente, Oli Bonzanigo, Ludovico Colombo, Marilisa Cosello, Lea Pedri Stocco, Pierluigi Scandiuzzi, Lorenzo Servetti, Davide Zulli.

  
Send your contribution to curatorialschool@gmail.com by May 9th. We will display your intervention within the exhibition. You can send images, sentences, photographs, and poems, as long as they fit on an A4 sheet. Furthermore, it will be possible to bring the chosen object on display if its dimensions are small.

  
From 13 to 21 May 2023

State Secondary School

Scuola Secondaria di I° Grado Statale

Pier Fortunato Calvi, Istituto Comprensivo

Dante Alighieri

Via Garibaldi 1808, 30122 Venice

Opening hours: 2.30pm – 7pm

Opening: Saturday 13 May, 17:00

Punto Zero. An object that wanted to change the world

The 23rd course in Curatorial Practice and Contemporary Arts presents From the city, an itinerary exhibition around Venice focusing on the powers and the dynamics of contemporary cities.

Perceived in two different ways, Venice is a global city on the one hand, for the collective consciousness, always appears the same, as lost in the past in its defined structures, on the other hand over the last few decades, the city has been changed drastically by economic and social dynamics.
After curating the Rob Pruitt's Flea Market in 2015, this year the School for Curatorial Studies Venice and the A plus A gallery look at the city of Venice as a case study focusing on artistic, curatorial and theoretical research.
The exhibition will take place from 25th to the 31st of May in the districts of San Marco and Castello, next to the locations of Biennale - Arsenale and Giardini. International artists will interact with the city enhancing cultures, traditions and hidden areas/treasures. The artists taking part to the project are: Elena Bellantoni, Paolo Brambilla, Bros, Federica di Carlo, Quiet Ensemble, Roberto Fassone, Serena Fineschi, Jukai, Sophie Ko, Kensuke Koike, Robert Montgomery, Matteo Nasini, Guido Nosari, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Emmanuele Panzarini, Marco Samorè, Sbagliato, Miriam Secco, Vincenzo Simone, Julian Soardi, Sebastiano Sofia, Jan Vormann.

The artworks will cohabit with the urban pattern, creating a link between the people and the context. The pubblic will be guided through the Sestrieri inspired by their memories and intimate symbols. The visitors will be guided through lanes and corners looking at the environment with a different and careful point of view; German artis Jan Vormann, brings back to Venice his Dispatchwork project repairing holes and cracks on the walls, using colorful and second hand plastic-toy bricks; Robert Montgomery creates a site-specific work focusing on the refugees matter linked with Venice as an in-between space where different cultures cohabit; poster artists group Sbagliato will catch the passerby attention creating illusionary spaces; Japanese artist Kensuke Koike will hide a kaleidoscopic world behind the peephole of a private's house door; Daniele Nicolosi, aka Bros, will present a symbolic work on the value of the art world and the city of Venice, using a series of one euro coins.

In this scenario the School for Curatorial Studies Venice intends to build an experimental laboratory and carry out a research on the theme of identity, on the lifestyle of the locals and on the new ways of living in the urban space through art. The headquarter of the exhibition will be near Arsenale - Sede del PCI - Corte Nova, Castello 2061/A - and it will be a place of  talks, debates around all the selected projects (realized and unrealized), along with opportunities of dialogue with the artists invited to participate actively in the platform with proposed topics of discussion. 
A final catalogue will be released combining all the different aspects of the project. Moreover, there will be the possibility to check all info and updates on www.fromthecityvenice.wordpress.com
Because From The City is all about Venice and its inhabitants, we have decided to actively invlove the local realities: a map illustrating restaurants, Venetian typical Bacari and bookshops will be released.
The event is supported by Pixartprintig where most of the printed material has been produced and by Belrosa Holding SA s.r.l.

From the city is curated by the students of the 23rd course in Curatorial Practice and Contemporary Arts of the School for Curatorial Studies Venice menaged by Aurora Fonda and Sandro Pignotti.

The students attending the 23nd edition of the "Course in Curatorial Practices and Contemporary Arts" are: Marta Artuso, Francesca Arzani, Roberta Bani, Cristina Bargna, Giulia Barbazza, Veronica Barisan, Marta Carlozzo, Mauro Casagrande, Federica Ceci, Alessandra Chiericato, Giulia di Paola, Giulia Felici, Claudia Ferraroni, Francesca Fialdini, Elena Fortunati, Danilo Fozzi, Giulia Garetto Romano, Giulia Giorgetti, Cristina Gordini, Valeria Manciagli, Margherita Masé, Francesca Montresor, Carlotta Muscaritoli, Salomé Nascimento, Chiara Perani, Giulia Pergola, Sara Prestini, Rossana Stellato, Chiara Tanchella, Silvia Tanzini. 
Notes:
The School for Curatorial Studies Venice was founded by Aurora Fonda in 2004 in Venice with the purpose of creating an open laboratory for the expression of creativity in the field of visual arts and the professions related to contemporary art. the Course in "Curatorial Practices and Contemporary Arts", now in its 23nd edition, is articulated on both a practical and theoretical level towards an experimental approach, culminating in a final event organized by the participating students. The couse is an ambitious and challenging project that aims to offer a vision of the complex world of contemporary art and offers a constructive contribution through the works produced by the School and its students.
www.corsocuratori.com

A plus A gallery has been the official venue for the Slovenian pavilion at the Venice Biennale since November 2013 and a hub for Slovene and local artists. Since 2015, under the direction of Aurora Fonda and Sandro Pignotti, A plus A will be transformed into a space dedicated to experimenting with new exhibition formats, with the aim of becoming a centre for contemporary art in Venice capable of supporting local and international artists in the production of exhibition and project in Venice. Among its principal activities is the School for Curatorial Studies Venice wich since 2004 has welcomed students in Venice to participate in the "Course in Curatorial Practices and Contemporary Arts".
www.aplusa.it
More info:
Website – www.fromthecityvenice.wordpress.com
Facebook – From The city
Instagram - @Fromthecityvenice

More info:
A plus A Gallery e The School for Curatorial Studies Venice
E.: press@aplusa.it
E.: press@corsocuratori.com


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