Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Off course
a narration between Italy and Greater China
A program of short films by
Yuri Ancarani, Chen Chieh-jen, Ra Di Martino, Yervant Gianikian e Angela Ricci Lucchi, Invernomuto, Kan Xuan, Li Ran, Lu Yang, Adrian Paci, Roberto Paci Dalò, Mariateresa Sartori, Wu Junyong, Yang Zhenzhong, Zhang Peili
Curated by Chiara Bertola and Davide Quadrio
Venice, Fondazione Querini Stampalia
29 May to 4 June 2013
Press Preview 28 May, from 10 am
Opening 28 May 2013, 6 pm
This program of short films is the result of the desire to build a complex narration among artists from Italy and from the Greater China: Video languages and sensations going beyond the artists’ geographical origins, building a fragmented story that blurs and blends these distant worlds into a continuum of echoes with no logic. The project, curated by Chiara Bertola and Davide Quadrio, is presented by Fondazione Querinini Stampalia, Venice, and Arthub Asia, Shanghai, in collaboration with the luxury shoes Made in Italy trademark Ballin, historically rooted in the territory of Venice (Fiesso d’Artico). Once more, Ballin confirms its commitment in supporting and celebrating an initiative connected to the world of art, culture and creativity: values inherent in the company’s Dna. The title “Off course” – taken from “Carnet de route” by Marc Augé – emphasizes how being off course, following unexpected roads, creating confusion by opposing different topics, in essence, going off the established itinerary, can reduce the geographical and cultural distance between two Countries so different from each other. Through disorientations and diversions in the distance, there is a mixing of visions, desires, sufferance, ironies which reveal a proximity a lot stronger than the distance normally measured on the linear road which leads from one geographical watertight compartment to another. The aim is to break the clichés of predictable or usual judgements and drive the spectator to create free associations; to identify other stories so as to realize that human beings, in all eras and everywhere, have the same need to relate with their past, not lose the details – both violent and mild – of their daily lives, and, wherever one might be, it is vital to follow off course the routes indicated by poetry … The artists participating in the project with their short films are: Yuri Ancarani, Chen Chieh-jen, Ra Di Martino, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, Invernomuto, Kan Xuan, Li Ran, Lu Yang, Adrian Paci, Roberto Paci Dalo’, Mariateresa Sartori, Wu Junyong, Yang Zhenzhong, Zhang Peili.
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The videos presented are:
Yuri Ancarani
Ip Op, 2003
La questione romagnola, 2002/2012
Made in Italy, 2009
Parcheggi a pagamento, 2005/2012
Vicino al cuore, 2003
Chen Chieh-jen
The Route, 2006
Ra Di Martino
August 2008, 2009
Yervant Gianikian e Angela Ricci Lucchi
Essence d’Absynthe, 1981
Frammento elettrico N.7, 1978
Invernomuto
Negus – Duppy Conquerors, 2013
Kan Xuan
Nothing!, 2002
Object, 2003
Li Ran
From Truck Driver to the Political Commissar of the Mounted Troops, 2012
Lu Yang
UterusMan, 2013
Adrian Paci
Per Speculum, 2006
Roberto Paci Dalò
Ye Shanghai, 2012
Mariateresa Sartori
In Sol maggiore/ In Sol minore, 2013
Wu Junyong
Peach, 2012
Yang Zhenzhong
Exam, 2012
Straight Line, 2012
Zhang Peili
Untitled, 2003
Happiness, 2006
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Technical schedule
Title
Off Course – a narration between Italy and Greater China A program of short films
A project curated by
Chiara Bertola and Davide Quadrio
Organized by
Fondazione Querini Stampalia Onlus, Venice
Arthub Asia - www.arthubasia.org
In collaboration with
Calzaturificio Ballin
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Venice, Campo Santa Maria Formosa, Castello 5252
Auditorium G. Piamonte
Period
29 May to 4 June 2013
Press Preview
28 May 2013, from 10 am
Opening
28 May 2013, 6 pm
Opening Hours
Wed, 29 May 10 am – 7 pm
Thur, 30 May 10 am – 7 pm
Fri, 31 May 10 am – 7 pm
Sat, 1 June 10 am – 6 pm
Sun, 2 June 10 am – 6 pm
Mon, 3 June 10 am – 6 pm
Tue, 4 June 10 am – 6 pm
Entrance Free
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Information
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Tel. 041 2711411 - Fax 041 2711445
www.querinistampalia.org
Press Office - Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Sara Bossi s.bossi@querinistampalia.org
Tel.: +39 041 2711441 – Cell.: +39 339 8046499
Press Office - Ballin
Attila&Co
Alessia Cannella alessia.cannella@attila.it
Tel.: +39 02 34970752
The Querini Stampalia Foundation
is located in one of the most interesting cultural complexes of the lagoon city, Palazzo Querini Stampalia. Commissioned in 1868 by Count Giovanni, a library, a Museum and an area for temporary exhibitions are all housed there.
The Library, one of general culture, is open until late at night and on holidays, while the Museum, with its eighteenth-century and neoclassical furniture, porcelain, sculptures, globes and paintings from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, most of which are from the Venetian school, conveys the atmosphere of the old noble residence.
On the ground floor of the sixteenth century palace stands the area restored in 1963 by Carlo Scarpa, considered to be the most cultured and aristocratic architecture of the Italian twentieth century. During the nineties, the architect Mario Botta was entrusted with undertaking the task of an extensive renovation of the headquarters. The diffusion of knowledge and the education of the individual are the Foundation’s mission, which aims to serve as a place of cultural production through the study and the enhancement of its historical heritage, its role as a museum and the determination to grasp the most advanced proposals of contemporary times. Since 2000, the Foundation has actively promoted “Sustaining the future,” a project by Chiara Bertola built on the relationship between ancient and contemporary art and the parallel between a past that needs to be protected and the future that must be invented. The project will involve the most significant artists on the national and international scene, inviting them to create a new work that will be conceived of mainly in relation to the historical collections of the Venetian Foundation: from the halls of the Museum with its collection from the Querini Stampalia family, to the ancient Library’s fund and the more contemporary architectural spaces of the area restored by Carlo Scarpa and Mario Botta.
Arthub Asia
is a multi-disciplinary organization devoted to contemporary art creation in China and rest of Asia. In collaboration with museums as well as with public and private institutions, Arthub initiates and delivers ambitious art projects through a sustained dialogue with visual, performance, and new media artists. Inspired by the opportunities generated by years of working in the field, Arthub Asia serves as a collaborative production laboratory, a creative think tank as well as a professional curatorial platform.
