The striking Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm and its theatre was designed in 1954 by Gio Ponti and Pier Luigi Nervi, two of the greatest proponents of Italian rational architecture and design in the Twentieth Century. On May 18th, for one day only, it will become the set for a series of temporary interventions by artists Marcus Harrling, Marc Matter, and Tris Vonna-Michell.
The reference point of the project Involucri pittorici rigidi-a descriptive evening of a publication curated by Federico Del Vecchio, is the French avant-garde movement Lettrism and the act of ‘walking’ as a methodology of connection between language, voice, poetry and architecture. The artists will install and perform a series of displays related to concrete, visual and sound poetry.
Marcus Harrling’s fascination for the value of the TV media in the pre-internet era informs his practice. For this exhibition he will present a new video and sound collage remixing previous projects.
Interested in the methods of text-sound-poetry and the manipulation of language and voice as artistic material, Marc Matter will present a listening session of historic and contemporary text-sound poetry with an introduction.
Relating to his ongoing research into the production of French avant-garde poet/musician Henri Chopin and concrete poetry, Tris Vonna-Michell will present a newly conceived film and slide
installation Chopin (2018).
Through storytelling, mise-en-scène, installation and a listening session, the artists will reconstruct stories twisting narrative structures and intersecting fragments of fiction and reality. A selection of materials on visual – sound – concrete poetry will be displayed in a series of vitrines designed by Gio Ponti.
The title of the project is partly inspired by the end notes of a book by Sarenco (Italian poet and artist, founder of Amodulo, a publishing house of concrete art and visual poetry and the magazine Lotta Poetica, in the late sixties). The English translation of ínvolucri pittorici, ‘rigid pictorial wrapping’refers to the materialistic language of poetry, but it also suggests an immaterial approach towards the idea of a publication.
This event is part of a series for the conclusion of CuratorLab 2017/2018 at the Konstfack University – Curatorial course for professionals in Arts, Crafts, Design & Architecture in collaboration with Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm.
Further details on the full program are available here:
The event is generously supported by the Italian Cultural Institute, Stockholm, with additional special thanks to the following organizations:
Thanks to Francesca Boenzi always for her wise advice and patience.
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Picture: Tris Vonna-Michell. Chopin (2018) © Courtesy the artist, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon, Jan Mot, Brussels and T293, Rome.
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