Curator: Paolo Toffolutti<\/p>\n
You are cordially invited to the opening of the exhibition Altri motivi di famiglia<\/em> on Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 19.00 at the P74 Gallery in Ljubljana.<\/strong><\/p>\n Since civilization is founded on the exploitation of one class by another class, its whole development proceeds in a constant contradiction. Every step forward in production is at the same time a step backward in the position of the oppressed class, that is, of the great majority. Whatever benefits some necessarily injures the others; every fresh emancipation of one class is necessarily a new oppression for another class.<\/em><\/p>\n F. Engels, The Origin of the Family (1884)<\/p>\n (quote from a reprint of the 1972 edition published in 2010 by Penguin Classics)<\/p>\n Last year SPAC (Spazi Pubblici Arte Contemporanea\/Public Space for Contemporary Art) in Buttrio (Udine, Italy) hosted the exhibition Motivi di Famiglia (Family Reasons)<\/em>, which included the works of 40 artists that, from different points of view, offered the public a return to a concept repeatedly touched by the history of art and the fundamental in the life of the society: the family.<\/em><\/p>\n Family is one of the levels of scientific classification of living organisms and other organic entities, in the sense of genus, species, family – but the term is also the aggregative core for some people \u2013 \u00a0\u201cInternal Family Group\u201d \u2013 which, in the West, from modernity onwards, has replaced the concept originally centred on the biological nature of the blood bond with a concept more based on values: cultural, social and political. According to that, the family, in the sense of the Sicilian Mafia, the Calabrian \u2018Ndrangheta, or the Neapolitan Camorra, is a secret membership marked by and with the blood, according to a bond of criminal filiation, imposing a relationship to commit a crime: \u201cThe Mafia, like Italy, is based on a fundamental institution: the family, that in Italy is the only recognised and respected social cell, passed down through the governments and regimes, occupations and \u2018Liberazioni\u2019\u201d (Fabrizio Rondolino).<\/p>\n My interest is to observe the continuous transfer of tensions, feelings, and problems in the socio-political realm that characterises the daily life of the people through their cultural reflection, when realising that most of the time, rather than two distinct areas, there exist two open systems placed in dialectic tension with one another.<\/p>\n In this regard, in 1955 the travelling photo exhibition The Family of Man<\/em> was emblematic: curated by Edward Steichen, who intended to represent the range of human feelings and experiences from birth to death, it consisted of a selection of 503 photos selected from among nearly 2 million shot in 68 countries from 273 different photographers. It represented one of the most visited exhibitions in the post-World War Two period, from which emerged the idea of \u200b\u200bhumanity belonging to one family.<\/p>\n Altri Motivi di Famiglia (Other Family Reasons)<\/em>, the exhibition proposed for P74 Center and Gallery, is a return to the \u201cscene of the crime\u201d, being careful \u201cnot to pollute the evidence\u201d but trying to reconstruct some key points \u2013 tensions \u2013 that were in the original project, by now discovering new ideas, new clues \u2013 through a comparison approaches and different lines of research \u2013 often because of the passage of time.<\/p>\n Altri Motivi di Famiglia<\/em> is this impossibility of returning home, exhibited by six of the same artists \u2013 though not necessarily showing the same works \u2013 in search of an undefined sense of familiarity of one exhibition with the other one, and of a changed and missing condition of contemporary life, characterised by the continuous existential loneliness in which we are forced to live.<\/p>\n The exhibition thematises this form of poverty: the loss of relationships in everyday life as an impossible return to the family, the forced and protracted stay in the family as the absence of reasons […] in a state of the family become increasingly problematic, especially now that the economic crisis is biting and the younger generations seek shelter in this vaguely defined social institution that often becomes the last refuge.<\/p>\n Altri Motivi di Famiglia<\/em> provides new clues that emerge in re-setting up the exhibition here, in Slovenia, a hundred miles away, in comparison with a social community that is close to yet culturally different from the Italian one; by questioning this apparent familiarity that is revealed in its complete unfamiliarity, proposed daily by the globalisation systems of culture.<\/p>\n Altri Motivi di Famiglia<\/em> is this sense of unease that increasingly characterises the experience of our days: a false familiarity, proximity, a similarity that hides the deep differences, inequalities, injustices reserved for the masses. An apparent identity or outward image of the \u201cUnited Colors of Benetton\u201d, the \u201cUnited Nations\u201d and the \u201cEuropean Community\u201d, artfully constructed to cover the deep reasons of diversity, to externalise a false sense of unity or identity that does not intend to deal with the priorities, the needs, the emergencies of the majority, many of whom do not hold the means of production.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Organisation: In collaboration with:![\"\"](\"http:\/\/arhiv.zavod-parasite.si\/slo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/akaki-ramishvili-coffe-with-milk-in-cairo.jpg\" "\\"Akaki")
\nAkaki Ramishvili, Coffe with Milk in Cairo<\/em>, 2010, video installation<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/arhiv.zavod-parasite.si\/slo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jaka-Vatovec-Overload2014.jpg\" "\\"Jaka")
\nJaka Vatovec, Overload<\/em>, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n
\nNeo associazione culturale \u2013 Udine
\nZavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., Ljubljana<\/p>\n
\nComune di Buttrio (UD) – Assessorato alla Cultura
\nGalleria Artra – Milano
\nInterna \u2013 Tavagnacco (UD)
\nLis Neris \u2013 San Lorenzo Isontino<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/arhiv.zavod-parasite.si\/slo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jaka-Vatovec-Overload2014-150x150.jpg\" "\\"Jaka")
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