Evidence. A New State of Art: Contemporary Italian Art in Georgia

The Georgian National Museum and the Embassy of Italy to Georgia are presenting the art exhibition "Evidence. A New State of Art" – contemporary Italian art – from from 25 May to 26 August 2018. Under the banner of the Museum Fest, the GNM National Gallery will host the exhibition of the Garuzzo Institute for Visual Arts - presenting contemporary Italian artists' works created from 1948-2018.

Time, history and memory have always represented a fundamental chronographic space for retracing or tracing the paths of art, for charting the trajectories and consequences of the contemporary art system. The exhibition "Evidence. A New State of Art" aims to provide a concentrated, significant map of the current art scene in Italy.

The exposition reveals how artists, from the 1950s to the present day, have continued to investigate - through research and analysis - in order to build structures of sense and of appearance of a narration that is always attentive to the forms of time. The exhibition bears witness to the variety of experimentations underway - from relationality to lyricism, from material to performance, from fluidity to resilience.

The exhibition includes the works of 18 artists: Nino Migliori, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giulio Paolini, Mimmo Paladino, Luigi Mainolfi, Marisa Albanese, Eugenio Giliberti, Pierluigi Pusole, Botto & Bruno, Alberto Di Fabio, Adrian Tranquilli, Paolo Grassino, Marzia Migliora, Perino & Vele, Giuseppe Stampone, Domenico Antonio Mancini, Elisa Strinna and Fabrizio Cotognini: all of the above are fundamental figures for a phenomenological approach to the study of the time, place and identity of Italian contemporary art.

The exhibition provides a clear trace of a production of forms that offer a possibility of different worlds, visions, intentions, reflections, and experiments. It is here that the strength of this exhibition lies, the construction of a story, of a concise but effective narration of Italian contemporary art, through different generations compared and contrasted.

It is a story in which various languages, techniques, signs and symbols are intertwined. Different media showcased at the exhibition include drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation.

This project is the result of close cooperation between the Italian Embassy and the Georgian National Museum and is implemented under the Georgian government project Check-in-Georgia. This initiative is supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the program "VivereALL'Italiana". This initiative is also supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sport of Georgia, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, and the Georgian National Tourism Administration.

The Institute for the Visual Arts is a not-for-profit institution, established in 2005, to raise awareness of Italian contemporary art.

Paulo Grassino, Decantations, 2011

Elisa Strinna, The Limits of My Language are the Limits of My World, 2016

Marisa Albanese, Common Body, 2017

Adrian Tranquilli, In Excelsis O, 2014

Perino & Vele, Grande Elpis, 2014

Guiseppe Stampone, Tierra, 2017

Alberto di Fabio, Psychedelic State of Matter, 2017

Luigi Mainolfi, Dune Harem, 2017

Nino Migliori, My City, 1958

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