ABOUT
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Hotel Universo,
nella notte Transluminosa
curated by Valentina Lacinio
collective exhibition
Palazzo Michiel, Venice
vernissage 18th march 2015, 6.30 pm.
19th march – 29th march 2015
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HOTEL UNIVERSO
nella notte Transluminosa
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Il primo aggettivo che userei per descrivere la notte è "spessa".
P. Rigolo
CONTACTS
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Info: hoteluniversoexhibition@gmail.com
Curator: Valentina Lacinio
Palazzo Michiel,
Strada Nuova - 4391 Campo Santi Apostoli, 30124 Venezia, Italy
(250m from Rialto Bridge, on Canal Grande)
team:
graphic designer | Stefano Mudu
communication | Giulia Toccafondi
editing | Francesca Rumiato
web & events | Claudio Piscopo
logistic | Giulia Sofi
promo & funding | Valentina Furian
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PRESS RELEASE
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As if they were guests in the same hotel, different artists are invited to search the night sky from their own bedroom windows.
In the firmament that we observe at night , the stars shine brightly, surrounded by a thick darkness. The darkness that we see in the sky is something that, according to scientists, demands an explanation. In an expanding universe, the most remote galaxies move away from us at a speed so great that their l ight is never able to reach us. To perceive, in the darkness of the present, this light that st rives to reach us but can not-this is what it means to be contemporary.
The contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness.1
From posing one of the great cosmological questions, the exhibition Hotel Universo, in the Transluminous darkness endeavors to question the very concepts of darkness, within the luminous night. Concepts like the unknown, or partially known, lucid dreams, foreseeing the future or clairvoyance, are used to take us on an exploration to make us reflect on the role of the artist, as a visionary that designs lenses that allow us to see the world, using the "entanglement method". There where the eye cannot see, the so called " blind spot ", where the retina does not hold light receptors, is where art acts as a compass, guiding us on the side-path to ordinary knowledge.
1 G. Agamben, What is the Contemporary?, in What is an Apparatus?, Stanford University press, 2009
