Sequential frames from the new Europe. An exhibition of integrations, differences, contrasts. Feelings. A softly contact with the new Europe's reality, travelling frame by frame over still un-sharable schemes.
March 04, 2005
ITS is going to explore new forms to express creativity, video, events, installations, performing arts, and whatever would touch our sensibility. The approach is not aesthetic. ITS lives feeling by feeling, the same goes for ISTANT EUROPE. A Video and Photography exhibition located in the 16th century’s Villa Manin: 26 selected artists from Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Hungary.
A catwalk of integration, differences, contrasts. Feelings. A kaleidoscope of state of mind, expectations and desires. A soft/hard contact with the new Europe’s reality, travelling frame by frame over still un-sharable schemes. A way to support the cultural building of the New Europe. Entering ISTANT EUROPE is like taking a walk through forced images which creates an allegoric contrast between the soft setting of Villa Manin and cruel problems of identity, gratuitous violence, banality, environmental respect, migrations. There’s no aim of compassion, just to focus on particular ways of living, based on geographical and social differences.
If, on one side the works underline different situations and contexts, on the other, they often unveil common positions: "Roll Over Museum Live" from the lithuan Arturas Raila describes a world in which a personalized vehicle becomes an evasion dream. Jaan Toomik and Semper, from Estonia, challenges issues relating to the body, nature and identity in the attempt to react against pre-arranged systems in society and in everyday life through a system of allusions.
Allusion and references are the themes represented by IRWING. These Slovenian fake/real artists simulate a previous presence in the Venezia Biennale when, not having been formally invited, they slept in sleeping bags at the Venice railway station.
By means of the artists’ diverse visions, INSTANT EUROPE aims at stimulating spectator into both comprehension of the specificity and the awareness of the universality of experience. This exhibition should not be intended as a complete testimony but as combination of interpretations of all those cultural, geographical, social and political realities which characterise the ten new European countries today.
INSTANT EUROPE appears like a dialogue and comparison between images that could encourage the observer to consider in a critical way the context in which he lives, pointing out a real need of integration.
For more information visit Villa Manin site
www.villamanincontemporanea.it
