BOOKS AS ART
Books as Art. I libri, le artiste.
Curated by Simona Campus and Paolo Cortese
Opening 05 December 2024 at 18:00
MUACC, Cagliari, Italy
The exhibition 'Books As Art. I Libri, le artiste' will be presented on Thursday 5 December, at 18.00. It will be the third installment of a multi-year project promoted by MUACC of Cagliari, in collaboration with Gramma_Epsilon Gallery, Athens. The overarching mission of the project is focused on ‘restoring’ women’s artistic research back into the cultural history of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Artists: Marilla Battilana, Mirella Bentivoglio, Tomaso Binga, Irma Blank, Anna Boschi, Francesca Cataldi, Betty Danon, Chiara Diamantini, Neide Dias de Sá, Lia Drei, Anna Esposito, Fernanda Fedi, Ileana Florescu, Coco Gordon, Elisabetta Gut, Marianna Karava, Susanne Kessler, Maria Lai, Rosanna Lancia, Liliana Landi, Ketty La Rocca, Carolina Lombardi, Virginia Lorenzetti, Sara Lovari, Lucia Marcucci, Gisella Meo, Patrizia Molinari, Aurèlia Muñoz, Elly Nagaoka, Riri Negri, Francesca Nicchi, Giulia Niccolai, Antonietta Orsatti, Luana Perilli, Astra Papachristodoulou, Renata Prunas, Betty Radin, Franca Rovigatti, Anna Maria Sacconi, Giovanna Sandri, Alba Savoi, Marilena Scavizzi, Evelina Schatz, Greta Schödl, Maria Jole Serreli, Franca Sonnino, Giulia Spernazza, Chima Sunada, Dora Tass, Salette Tavares, Anna Torelli, Anna Uncini.
After the two previous solo exhibitions dedicated to Franca Sonnino and Francesca Cataldi, Books As Art. I libri, Le artiste now focuses on a large group exhibition in which seventy works, by more than fifty artists, are presented in book form.
The book is, in fact, of key importance in women's artistic research starting with the groundbreaking exhibition ‘The Materialization of Language’, curated by Mirella Bentivoglio in the context of the 38th Venice Biennale in 1978. In this exhibition and during the numerous initiatives curated in the 1980s and 1990s, Mirella Bentivoglio developed her terminology that became central to her entire aesthetic approach: the form and meaning of the book unite two realms, that of Logos, language, and that of Mater, matter. Two opposing but complementary worlds that merge into singular, communicative, and at times, silent poetic testimonies. Where Mater also encapsulates, etymologically, the need to assert an anti-rhetorical idea of motherhood and femininity.
Carrying on that legacy, Books As Art. I libri, le artiste examines the book, or rather, books, by women artists in their conceptual and material dimensions, and across all of their possible manifestations. Books published in limited experimental copies, which within the two-dimensionality of the page encompass the hybridization of design and photography; object-books, in their three-dimensional and multi-material form, set forth the harmonious blend of different signs and cultures. Books made of threads, those of a coherent yet ever-changing, ever-evolving discourse. Books that become the medium of connection and contamination between verbal and visual code. Books as different experiences - capturing and linking the realm of thought, word and image directly to the realm of existence.
Books as Art. I libri, le artiste.
Curated by Simona Campus and Paolo Cortese
05 December 2024- 28 March 2025
Wednesday-Thursday- Friday, 10:00- 18:00
Opening: 05 December 2024 at 18:00
MUACC University Museum of Contemporary Arts and Cultures
Via Santa Croce 63, 09124
Cagliari, Italy
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