București: Pneuma Christian Fogarolli

Pneuma
Christian Fogarolli
Curators: Erwin Kessler, Gabriele Lorenzoni, Diana Stirlea
Project supported by the Italian Council (6th Edition 2019) program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism

MARe Museum, Bucharest
04 September – 25 September, 2020
Inauguration: 04 September, h. 18:30

Christian Fogarolli’s Pneuma project explores mental health in contemporary society, the project develops in the light of the current global health crisis with the artist’s second solo exhibition at the MARe Museum in Bucharest.

By exploring the immateriality and intangibility of mental illness, the artist’s research brings contemporary questions to the surface: are we still able to begin a process of de-stigmatisation and a reconsideration of mental illness? How do we view the binary condition that distinguishes ‘deviance’ from ‘normality’?

His various travels, research residencies, collaborations in ten different countries and immersion into different European realities led the artist to the conception of a project which consists of various immersive works, conceived and put together as a result of having collaborated so closely with people in care, medical personnel and researchers in different fields. In Romania specifically, the artist dealt with various public and private realities, all engaged in mental health and mental recovery.

The countries involved in the project are: Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, England, Romania, Czech Republic. Fogarolli has forged relationships with some of their major psychiatric institutions, developing a direct comparison with those who live in these places, questioning the classification processes of mental distress and the consequent marginalisation of the individual.

With this groundwork in place and following the development of the current global health emergency, the artist has developed for MARe Museum in Bucharest an exhibition over floors 2.5 and 3 of the museum, encompassing a multi-media, environmental installation that interacts with blown glass sculptures and an audio / video piece and photographic works created thanks to the collaboration with brain research institutes such as the University of Trento (CIMeC) and King’s College in London.

The entire project is presented through various exhibitions including those recently concluded at STATE Studio Berlin in Berlin and La Fondazione di Roma, the exhibition in question at the MARe Museum in Bucharest, then continues in the spaces of Schwarzescafé at Löwenbräukunst in Zurich and at MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna.

At the end of the exhibitions, a catalogue will be published including essays written by those from both the medical and artistic field. It will also include a series of unpublished images that will chronologically retrace the project’s preliminary research on a geographical journey. A series of pneumaevents, laboratories, seminars, conferences and screenings will be hosted by international partner institutions: medical research centres, universities, academies, associations and centres for the treatment of mental illness.

The final works will then become part of the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, Mambo’s permanent collection.

Thanks to, for the field research in the city of Bucharest:
– Teodora Ciolompea, manager of the Spitalul Clinic „Sfântul Stelian”
– Claudia Vilcianu, psychoanalyst
– Carmen Angheluta, manager of Regional Emergency Hospitals, Romanian Ministry of Health
– Maurizio Passerotti, honorary Consul of Italy in Romania
– Erwin Kessler, director of the MARe Museum
– Diana Stirlea, MARe Museum

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Christian Fogarolli is an Italian artist born in 1983. He obtained a Master’s degree in study, diagnostics and restoration of modern and contemporary ancient paintings at the University of Verona in 2010 and obtained a specialist degree in conservation of cultural heritage at the University of Trento.
His research is underpinned by the relationship between art and scientific theories and disciplines and how the latter has unconsciously made use of creative means to lead to progress. His works attempt to question the hierarchical relationship between different species, the regulatory attributions of deviance and disease and the canonical methods of museum, scientific and archival categorisation. His practice stems from historical research into the contemporary world through different forms of expression, from environmental installation to photography, from sculpture to video.

The results of his research have been displayed in events such as dOCUMENTA (13) with the exclusive presentation of the research project Lost identities (2012); the Mart Museum of Rovereto (2013); The Maison Rouge in Paris (2014); Foundation Museum Miniscalchi Erizzo (2015); de Appel arts center of Amsterdam (2015); 5th Moscow International Biennale (2016); Hunterian Museum in Glasgow (2017); Gayté Lyrique of Paris (2017); Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin (2017); Galleria Civica Mart, Trento (2014-18); Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles (2018); MAXXI, National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome (2018); Hrdlicka Museum of Man, Prague (2018); Palazzo Fortuny Museum Venice (2018); Musée de Grenoble (2019). He recently received research and residency awards at the College of Physicians and Mütter Museum of Philadelphia and Futura center for contemporary art in Prague (2018). In 2019 he received the prestigious Italian Council award granted by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities.

Pneuma
by Christian Fogarolli
Project supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism under the Italian Council program (2019).
www.fogarolli.eu

Exhibitions of the research project
STATE Studio Berlin, Berlin, March 20 – May 2, 2020
The Foundation, Rome, June 30 – July 06, 2020
MARe Museum, Bucharest, September 02 – September 23, 2020
Schwarzescafé at Löwenbräukunst, Zurich, May 22 – 31, 2020
MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, 2020/2021

Promoting partners
TRA – Treviso Research Art, Treviso
CIMeC – Mind / Brain Interdepartmental Centre, Rovereto

Pneumaevents
Italian Institute of Culture, Tel Aviv
TRA – Treviso Research Art, Treviso
CIMeC – Mind / Brain Interdepartmental Center, Rovereto
Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona
Dipartimento delle Arti – Alma Mater Studiorum Università di BolognaIED, European Institute of Design, Venice
STATE Studio Berlin, Berlin

Museum recipient of the work
MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, permanent collection

Internal collaborators
Giulia Busetti, freelance curator, Zurich
Giulia Colletti, Public Programs Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin
Sabrina Comin, Treviso Directorate for Art Research
Gabriele Lorenzoni, Curator, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rovereto, Mart

Graphics
Multiplo, Padua

Pneuma Catalogue
Grafiche Veneziane

Thanks to
Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris / Venice
Galerie Mazzoli, Berlin / Modena / Düsseldorf

Partners
TRA – Treviso Ricerca Arte, Treviso
CIMeC – Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, Rovereto
Italian Institute of Culture, Tel Aviv
Dipartimento delle Arti – Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona
IED, European Institute of Design, Venice
STATE Studio Berlin, Berlin
MARe Museum, Bucharest
Schwarzescafé at Löwenbräukunst, Zürich
MAMbo – Museo di Arte Moderna, Bologna
AGI Verona Collection, Verona
Istituzione Gian Franco Minguzzi, Bologna
Free Space project, London
The Perspective Project, London
Jonas Onlus, Trento, Florence, Varese, Palermo, Genoa
Psicoradio (Arte e Salute Onlus) Bologna, Milan
Associazione Nuove Arti Terapie, Rome
Amabiotics, advance microbiome medicine, Paris
PsicoArt – Associazione di Psicologia dell’arte APS
Art & Mind, film production, London

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