Valentina Biz

12/06/2021

Da oggi la mostra personale di Fabio Weik LE TRASMISSIONI RIPRENDERANNO IL PRIMA POSSIBILE è aperta al pubblico fino al 30.06.2021.
Indirizzo: Ferro Bulloni, via XX Settembre n.2, Brescia
Orari: da LUNEDI a DOMENICA 11:00-19:00 Prenotazioni: [email protected]

La mostra, oltre ai lavori inediti ed alle installazioni site specific, include una serie di opere iconiche tra cui “Mediaindigestione” ed “Ermeneutica” che rappresentano la produzione artistica degli ultimi anni di Fabio Weik.
La reinterpretazione del monoscopio a colori, fil rouge dell’esposizione, mette in risalto tematiche care all’artista, in
primis la riflessione sull’informazione, in particolare sui sistemi di gestione dei percorsi informativi.
La mostra rende omaggio ad uno degli edifici storici di Brescia: la fabbrica Ferro Bulloni, scelta da Fabio Weik proprio per il suo fascino unico, un misto tra solida fierezza e decadenza, specchio dell’Italia stessa.
Nella sala principale della mostra, svetta l’installazione ASSEMBLA, una piramide di manichini in scala 1:1 abbigliati con outfit realistici del marchio Australian pregna di riferimenti socio-culturali ed spirata al fenomeno territoriale sviluppatosi nella metà degli anni 90 dei cd. HARDCORE WARRIORS e GABBERS (frequentatori abituali della discoteca bresciana NUMBER ONE).
L’artista ci porta ad interrogarci sull’effetto che l’inevitabile chiusura di discoteche e concerti, luoghi nevralgici della vita sociale, della distrazione e del divertimento, dove il contatto umano tra individui è reale e non digitale, avrà sulla società e sui giovani.
ASSEMBLA non è solo un riferimento al nostro passato più recente, ma è ispirata alle raffigurazioni storiche delle Forze
d’Ercole che si svolgevano durante le festività del Carnevale Veneziano.
In “Le trasmissioni riprenderanno il prima possibile” Fabio Weik analizza una situazione visibile e percepibile da tutti a livello globale.

Un ringraziamento speciale a tutti coloro che hanno collaborato alla realizzazione della mostra .online

09/06/2021

- LE TRASMISSIONI RIPRENDERANNO IL PRIMA POSSIBILE -

11.06.2021/30.06.2021

L’ultima mostra personale di FABIO WEIK da me curata inaugura Venerdì 11 Giugno alle ore 18:00 presso la Società Ferro Bulloni in Via XX Settembre n. 2 a Brescia.

L’artista affronta in modo disruptivo le tematiche attuali quali il distanziamento sociale e la forzata pausa imposta dal Covid19, attraverso una serie di opere inedite caratterizzate da una forte connessione con la città di Brescia. Le chiavi di lettura del nostro presente proposte dall’arte di Fabio Weik spiazzano e innescano nello spettatore una profonda riflessione sulla realtà in cui viviamo.

28/05/2021

The Perpetual Cycle Rotates on The Axis of Despair - Nico Vascellari.

Vascellari’s last solo exhibition “01”, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto at La Fondazione (Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio) in Rome, opens to the public today. The exhibition is at the same time disturbing and cheerful, and each artwork carries special memories for the artist.
Thank you for being such a great host!

26/05/2021

Venice welcomes back once again german artist . The permanent exhibition , installed on the Piano Nobile of , is curated by Mario Codognato and produced by in collaboration with . It features 12 site-specific, unusually colorful, large paintings hanging on eighteenth-century stucco-framed panels where the Grimani's portraits were displayed back in the days.

24/05/2021

Bruce Nauman, “Run From Fear Fun From Rear”, 1972.

A graffiti on a “suicide bridge” in Pasadena, California, saying “Run from Fear” inspired this neon sign. Nauman paired the expression with its sexually charged anagram “Fun from Rear” dislocating the meanings of both phrases.

Last weekend the exhibition “Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies” curated by and has been inaugurated Punta della Dogana on the occasion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021.

28/02/2021

Il video di nuovo singolo di Boss Doms è girato durante un’experience live dedicata ai fan creata a quattro mani con l’artista contemporaneo Fabio Weik . Grazie per avermi reso partecipe ancora una volta nei vostri progetti artistici.

Li abbiamo incontrati a Milano. Ecco cosa ci hanno raccontato in questa doppia intervista

23/12/2020

Dear Santa, I’ve been quite good this year, could you please bring me more jungle showers? Just this, because I’ve already found my dream sunglasses by !

21/12/2020

How does it feel?


Andrea Fontanari “They are playing my favorite song” 2020, oil on linen, 120x200 cm

Courtesy & .fontanari

14/12/2020

Susanne Kutter - Ti penso sempre (I always think of you), 2019

05/12/2020

I’m honored to have contributed to Cristina Rodrigues’ catalogue with a text about “Crossing”, one of the main installation of her exhibition, currently on display at Centro de cultura contemporanea de Castelo Branco in Portugal.
Here’s an extract of it, dm me if you would like to read the full version.

CROSSING
 
E poi ch’a riguardar oltre mi diedi,
vidi genti alla riva d’un gran fiume;
per ch’io dissi: «Maestro, or mi concedi        ch’i’ sappia quali sono, e qual costume
le fa di trapassar parer sì pronte,
com’io discerno per lo fioco lume».  
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
La Divina Commedia - Inferno: C. III, v. 70-75
 
The narratives suggested by the visionary theatrical setting of the installation are multiples, as different are the symbologies evoked; the hanged bodies over the red sea of velvet are fluctuating like a ballet through the darkness towards the dream of a new life tainted by fear and despair. A movement through the world which is not an abstract receptacle of things but a vast ocean, an expanse of many dimensions, where a change, of course, is determined by the topology and the politics of the open world and where everything seems to be in place, yet space is ready to open up for things and events.
This art installation was done in reaction to the stories of the people interviewed in the homonymous documentary.
Art doesn’t just reflect the world; it engages with it. Crossing is a vast sea made of red velvet, spread smooth and wavy in a dark space. The two dozen figures hanging from the ceiling over the troubled water speak covertly of migrants’ past and future. As if temporality was absent, they are lifted and dragged in two distinct directions: one space that they are forced to leave and another that they don’t know yet. Scale and repetition draw the viewer in, and the mind begins to roam. This work’s conceptual complexity is a reminder that all human life passes in a continuous struggle between expectations and reality in a game of endless possibilities.

13/11/2020

BALLA!
by Fabio Weik
curated by Valentina Bizzotto

Video and photos by & / Music by

BALLA! is an immersive installation that stimulates the visitor on a multisensory level by involving them visually, sonorously and emotionally in the story of Balla Coulibaly, a young refugee from the Republic of Mali, who is both the inspiration and subject of the exhibition.
The title plays with the name of the protagonist: deliberately confusing the viewer about the real theme of the installation - what appears to be a superficial invitation to dance on the notes of techno music in contrast with COVID-19 enforced social restrictions, is instead a deeply-considered interrogation of current events: as is the focus of Weik's entire artistic production.
Visually, the installation features 145 suspended isothermal blankets, a golden snake that winds through the length of the exhibition space to its source of origin, a video projection of Balla's face close-up.
The soundtrack, specially created by Boss Doms at Weik's request, emphasizes the sensorial immersion. Skillfully composed by the musician, it transports the listener from a musical experience to another journey: one of fear and danger, and lived by thousands of refugees who risk their lives to reach our country.
Another critical element of the installation is the video interview with Balla Coulibaly. Consciously intended to be both confusing and provocative, Balla's story is juxtaposed against the way migration is presented in the Italian media. The film highlights the disparity between Balla's own experiences versus those commonly presented in the news.
BALLA! draws on the interaction between space and people. From the moment the viewer enters the space, Weik's installation plays on his or her senses: they find themselves in a surreal, metaphysical environment, surrounded by techno sounds that recall an underground party or a rave. The wordplay created by the title develops a reflection on the always current theme of refugees touching, with bitter irony, different social aspects experienced by a refugee who is integrating into the Milanese reality at the time of COVID.

08/10/2020

I’m in for the real thing.

-BALLA!-

16.10.2020/29.10.2020

FABIO WEIK’s art installation

with:

Inaugurazione venerdì 16 ottobre ore 19:30 in Via Valenza, 2 Milano