Sistemi emotivi

Emotional Systems
30/11/2007 - 03/02/2008, Florence

FROM 30 NOVEMBER 2007 TO 3 FEBRUARY 2008

The exhibition

Emotional Systems

http://www.palazzostrozzi.org/Sezione.jsp?titolo=Sistemi%20emotivi&idSezione=269&idSezioneRif=152

On 29 November 2007, the Foundation Palazzo Strozzi in Florence opens new CCCS-Center for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, a space devoted to the comparison between the different approaches and different practices that characterize the production of cultural and artistic contemporaneity.

As the Director General of the Foundation, James Bradburne, the premise of the exhibition catalog Systems Emotivi: "The Center of Contemporary Culture Strozzina (CCCS) intends to be a kind of open platform to the wide range of approaches and practices that characterize the production of art and contemporary culture. Aperta also in the sense here that the mediation will not be finalized cultural development of a single interpretation, but to encourage the culture of debate and a critical reading of multiple layers and multi making up the complex and sometimes seemingly contradictory in where we live. " [...]

The exhibition space is in place environments, recently restored, under the magnificent courtyard of the Palazzo Strozzi (known as The Strozzina). In the past, here were the cellars of the Palace, a true jewel of the Italian Renaissance; later, the end of the Second World War up all'alluvione of 1966, these rooms have hosted the most important exhibitions Florentine, which had echoes International . The Center includes 11 rooms of different sizes, a top total of 850 square meters. The fundamental approach chosen by the CCCS is to create a multi-annual program using local and international network. This means that not only will be proposed projects thematic exhibition, but will be regularly invited independent curators and institutions to devise initiatives cycles of films and videos, workshops, performances and lecture to be held in the spaces of the center.

"The CCCS is a place for contemporary culture, emphasizes Franziska Nori, project director of the new center - which will be presented projects that address urban issues, economic, social and political development, scientific, technological, as well as aesthetic and ethical, because of the fact that contemporary art from the same time it was liberated from royalties related to the classical logic of individual disciplinary approach. program developed to allow visitors to try and find a contemplative and analytical comparison with the art is a part the direct and active cultural process. "

The first event will inaugurate the spazio- Systems Emotivi, contemporary artists between emotion and reason, scheduled from 30 November 2007 to 3 February 2008 - is a three-stage complementary but distinct: an Exhibition, a publication and a program that Lectures indagheranno the issue of emotions, suggesting a correlation between reading of contemporary artist, a work of art and user, in the light of the most recent observations and discoveries neuroscientifiche on the human brain and its effects on emotional.

The exhibition, curated by Franziska Nori and Martin Steinhoff, is the central event Systems Emotivi. The exhibition will collect works of contemporary artists who, consciously or not, are related with the practice and sensory body, but also rational and cognitive involved the experience of enthusiasm, both in terms of production and in the fruition. The artists invited are: Bill Viola (USA), William Kentridge (South Africa), Yves Netzhammer (Switzerland), Katharina Grosse (Germany), Christian Nold (England), Maurice Benayoun (France), Teresa Margolles (Mexico) Andrea Ferrara alias Ongakuaw (Italy) and poets Elisa
Biagini, Antonella Anedda and Valerio Magrelli. The choice of artists follows a logic of multidisciplinary involvement and interactive with the audience where empathy, the ability to understand what another person is trying, plays an important role. The audience, in fact, will be involved in sensory, cognitive and emotional between multimedia installations, video, digital animation, painting and other suggestions monumental visual, auditory and body.

For all the duration of the exhibition, the path will be supplemented by a program that teaches mediation, cared for and guided by Barbara Campaner, through which visitors can interact with the various works and test the themes proposed by the exhibition.

The publication / exhibition catalog, in English and Italian, (Silvana Editorial) contains, in addition to the theoretical contributions of the two curators, Franziska Nori and Martin Steinhoff, original texts or excerpts from publishing authors International: neurologists and neuroscienziati Antonio Damasio and Joseph LeDoux, philosophers and anthropologists as Ronald De Sousa, Peter Goldie, Martha Nussbaum, William Reddy and as an art historian David Freedberg. The common theme of confrontation and interdisciplinary is the rationality of emotions and "relazioni- to use the words of Freedberg- between the formal aspects of an image and emotional responses" of the user.

The lectures are further deepening of the theme from the point of view multidisciplinary scientific and through direct meeting with scholars and experts, exclusively Italian, different disciplines. On Thursday evening will be devoted to psychologists, philosophers and anthropologists who present their theories, the Friday poetry reading and musical performance. Among the scholars involved: John Lucignani, Andrea Pinotti, Emilia Barile, Luigi Pagliarini and among poets Elisa Biagini and Valerio Magrelli.

SISTEMI EMOTIVI
Firenze, CCCS, Palazzo Strozzi
30 novembre 2007 - 3 febbraio 2008
Orari: 11,00 - 20,30. Lunedì chiuso
Biglietti: 5 ¤ unico; 7¤ multiuso (5 ingressi in 1 mese, comprese lectures)
Catalogo Silvana Editoriale

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