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La
Spezia European Biennale of the Visual Arts
2004 PREMIO DEL GOLFO
CONSTANT DIFFERENCES
December 11, 2004 – March 6, 2005
Postponed to March 28th 2005 |
The European Biennale of the Visual Arts –
2004 Premio del Golfo, the long-awaited event destined to enhance
activities in the arts in the city of La Spezia, opens the doors
of the new Modern and Contemporary Art Center to the public, the
same building which held the large inaugural Tinguely/Munari exhibition
earlier this year. Bruno Corà, the artistic director of CAMeC,
has been appointed scientific curator of this third and new edition
of the Biennale.
The show is a unique occasion for intensifying the cultural life
of the city, of the Golfo dei Poeti territory and, in a broader
sense, of the entire peninsula.
The Premio del Golfo, founded in 1933 by the father of Futurism,
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, was reestablished in 2000 after a range
of events thanks to the determination of the City Administration
and other sponsoring organizations and agencies, the La Spezia Fondazione
Cassa di Risparmio, the La Spezia Chamber of Commerce, Industry,
Craftsmanship, Agriculture, the Province of La Spezia, APT –
Cinque Terre, and the Golfo dei Poeti, La Spezia. After its providential
2002 edition, the Premio del Golfo opens again on December 10, 2004,
on its regular alternating-year basis, thanks to the La Spezia Society
for the Visual Arts.
Dedicated to painting and intended to enlarge the public collections
located in CAMeC (open to the public since May, 2004), this year’s
Premio features a participation of young artists recognized by scientific
scholars in charge of numerous European museums (in Slovenia, Belgium,
Portugal, France, Switzerland, Greece, Great Britain, Austria, Germany,
Holland, Denmark, Italy) and of one in the Mediterranean basin,
Turkey. In fact, among the new features of the Premio is the perception
of the particular role which a city like La Spezia can play in the
discussion of art in the Mediterranean basin, where so many cultural
factors and relevant transformational elements call for attention
to the growth of new generations from other areas possessing new
social and cultural realities often in contrast with the more consolidated
contemporary art experiences of strictly European countries. Therefore,
in that framework, the Spezia Biennale, seeking its own calling
among many other similar initiatives existing on the Old Continent,
has initiated a new relationship with countries looking upon contemporary
art as sector for creative activities particularly dedicated to
those relations and communications favoring an awareness shared
by Mediterranean countries.
The exhibition, Constant Differences, whose self-explanatory title,
without meaning to constitute a tendency, already indicates an obvious
interest in highlighting the dissonant artistic issues of our current
historical-cultural times.
An international jury composed of renowned artists, critics, museum
directors and collectors will award the 2004 Premio del Golfo during
the inaugural ceremony of this important event.
A catalogue full of illustrations, essays, critical contributions
and bio-bibliographical appendices will be published on occasion
of the exhibition.
The European Biennale of the Visual Arts – 2004 Premio del
Golfo confirms the promotional Committee’s will to strengthen
and lend continuity to the original event initiated over seventy
years ago in La Spezia.
Besides the exhibition, it will be possible to visit the exposition
of civic collections of modern and contemporary art, which draws
the attention upon some important thematic groups.
Relevant works of the Italian Informal come from the Battolini’s
collection and from the historic section of the Golfo Prize. Worth
a mention are also works from the Cozzani’s donation, examples
of the European Informal, the Geometrical Abstractionism and the
Kinetic and Programmed Art. |
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