Exhibition project Luigi Ontani. Le Ore in collaboration with MAXXI, the City of Taormina, Enel, the Oelle Mediterraneo Antico Foundation and the manifesto Taobuk 2024 designed by Arnaldo Pomodoro: The Mediterranean as a crossroads of identity.
“Sea between lands” and meeting point for peoples and cultures, the Mediterranean region is a synthesis of cultural syncretism and guardian of an intangible heritage that animates the contemporary artistic imagination.
This is confirmed by the choices made by Taobuk for the 14th edition.
“In line with the strong vocation of the festival for the visual arts – emphasizes Antonella Ferrara, president and artistic director – the program dedicates to Luigi Ontani a new exhibition project in the spaces of Palazzo Corvaja that, from 23 June to 28 July, will host, thanks to the renewed collaboration with MAXXI in Rome, the exhibition project Le Ore. Luigi Ontani. At the same time, we pay tribute with the Taobuk Award to the genius of Arnaldo Pomodoro, author of the manifesto L’Antenna del Tempo, linked to the 2024 concept, Identità. So we give course to two prestigious collaborations of which we are particularly proud”.
Saturday 22 at 12:30, at Palazzo Corvaja, will be inaugurated the exhibition project The Hours. Luigi Ontani (1975), curated by MAXXI Med and Taobuk Festival in collaboration with the City of Taormina, Enel and Fondazione Oelle Mediterraneo Antico
Speakers will include:
Alessandro Giuli, President of the MAXXI Foundation,
Antonella Ferrara, President and Artistic Director of the Taobuk Festival,
Chiara Ianeselli, curator MAXXI Med,
Cesare Biasini, Director Exibart and Press Office Fondazione Oelle – Mediterraneo Antico.
Thursday, June 20 at 20, at Casa Cuseni, the Festival celebrates its fourteenth edition paying tribute to the genius of Arnaldo Pomodoro, eclectic master of the international art scene with his Antenna del tempo, conceptual reworking of the archetypal symbol of the arrow, reinterpreted the theme of identity as a union between space and time, individuality and otherness, tradition and change. Manifesto di Taobuk 2024, the work of Maestro Pomodoro reflects the contaminations that make the Mediterranean, still today, a dynamic crossroads of cultural syncretism.
Speakers will include:
Federico Giani, Curator – Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation,
Antonella Ferrara, President and Artistic Director of the Taobuk Festival,
Paola Gribaudo, President of the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin,
Ornella Laneri, President of Fondazione OELLE – Mediterraneo Antico,
Alessandro Giuli, President of the MAXXI Foundation – Museum of Arts of the 21st Century.
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Roberta Scorranese, Corriere della Sera.
