Meetings and Visits
Visits at artists’ studios, contemporary art galleries, Exhibitions, Museums, Fairs in Italy and abroad – for members only.
2007
- SUNDAY, 4th FEBRUARY
AT 12:00 VISIT TO THE SPINOLA BANNA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS – POIRINO
Gail Cochrane, curator of the Foundation, has shown Artegiovane members the premises of the Foundation, used as artists’ residence and venue for interesting workshops, presenting the tutors and the youth who worked there. The Foundation fully and soberly accomplishes its formative and supporting role with young artists; its premises are a structure suitably implemented for their specific purpose with extremely interesting and functional architectural solutions, inside the Spinola Marquises Estate.
AT 14:30 VISIT TO THE GIOV_ANNA PIRAS FOUNDATION – AST
Luisella D'Allessandro, curator of the Foundation, guided the visit in the premises of the Foundation, located in downtown Asti in a renovated industrial building, explaining their diverse activities, especially the cultural project under the name of: Allen Ginsberg: Beat & Pieces Beat Books.
1. 1.Selection of about 80 photographic works made by Allen Ginsberg between the ‘50s and the ‘90s, accompanied by the book Beat & Pieces, with pieces by Fernanda Pivano, reconstructing, in the form of a diary, the fascinating adventure of the Beat Generation. In collaboration with The Allen Ginsberg Trust, New York and with Photology, Milan.
2. 1.Exhibition of over 200 first editions among the rarest and most representative of the Beat Generation, from the collection of the Giov_Anna Piras Fund. Printing of an unpublished catalog, with the copy of the cover of each exhibited book, with a remarkable opening essay. In addition to this and for the entire length of the event, at the Astense Library some recent editions of the exhibited works will be also available. In collaboration with the Astense Library, Asti, and with L’Arengario, Gussago (BS).
3. 1.Presentation of the movie The Last Beat of Allen Ginsberg by Fabio Paleari, a moving portrait, mixing the last public performance in Italy and an eye-opening private interview. In collaboration with the Guido Costa Projects Gallery, Turin.
4. 1.Projection of Allan’ n’ Allen’s Complaint, the video created by Nam June Paik with Shigeko Kubota in 1982. In collaboration with the International Academy of Arts and Media, Turin.
5. 1.Interactive installation commemorating the work of the photographers who captured unforgettable moments of Ginsberg’s, Corso’s, Ferlinghetti’s, and other artists’ performances
With the kind authorization of Fulvio Magurno, Genoa. With the Sponsorship of the Ministry for Arts and Culture. The project is supervised by Flavio Piras and Luisella d’Alessandro.
The Foundation also houses the stunning Cellar built by the Piras brothers, collectors of Great Wines, among which, as for Artegiovane members, the most interesting are those of the Mouton Rotschild Collection, with labels illustrated by artists since the ‘20s (Picasso, Leger, Dubuffet, etc.).
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