The Sign and the Landscape, utopia of writing
curated by Paolo Donini and Armando Bertollo
Sixteen artists and poets – eleven of whom from Veneto – offer an unprecedented and surprising interpretation of the landscape as an anthropological journey through the language of art and literature.
The exhibition is an intense staging experience, seen in its various perceptible manifestations (from painting to photography, from design to writing, from sound to sculpture, from installation to video), in which the works, despite occupying their own space, are interpreted in terms of their reciprocal relationships.
The exhibition space becomes an inhabited landscape, organised by the variety of signs and environments of thought through which visitors are inspired, in turn, to enjoy both an intellectual and a perceptive experience.
The interval of space that suggests the relationships between one work and the next is particularly significant, almost representing a sort of “lung” of the mind where the works and the public can interact in deep breathing exercises which can, in turn, transform – overcoming the danger of the “horror vacui” – into therapeutic vertigo: art and writing subtly take shape, the collective and eco-logical path between many examples of freedom of thought.