counter-clock world The core topic of the fifth edition of Flashback is inspired from Philip K. Dick s novel Counter-clock World, a novel where the time started to flow backwards. The reverse direction is therefore counter-clockwise, counter-current and represents the different perspective, the subjective point of view, the chance to look differently at what surrounds us, finding new elements, new gateways to re-read and interpret contemporaneity. FLASHBACK_special project The FLASHBACK è Opera Viva project was born in 2013, by which artist Alessandro Bulgini stated the event and all the masterpieces presented as Living Work. In 2014, Opera Viva left the spaces of art to move to the suburbs, through Opera Viva Barriera di Milano which, with the curatorship of Christian Caliandro, market the count down to the Fair. OPERA VIVA BARRIERA DI MILANO, part two, small moral works a project by Alessandro Bulgini curated by Christian Caliandro artists: Raffaele Fiorella, Calixto Ramirez, Cristiano De Gaetano, Fabrizio Bellomo, Roxy in the Box, Alessandro Bulgini Pursuing and developing organically the reflection that started last year curated by Christian Caliandro and dedicated to Barriera di Milano, Opera Viva Barriera di Milano concretized again in a 3x6 meter advertising space in the roundabout of piazza Bottesini in Barriera di Milano in Turin, close to the neighborhood historical market of piazza Foroni, which - for six month - was occupied by artworks by six artists of different background and style, who - though- share an original innovative approach to the artistic practice. The inspiration for this year has been the Small Moral Works (1827) by Giacomo Leopardi, the greatest book of our literary tradition right because of its being elusive, indefinable, a fruit of the fusion and collision between satire, poetry, prose, social criticism, philosophy and autobiography. Thus, Leopardi ideally connects to Philip K. Dick's Counter-clock world (1967), in the sign of a different perception of history and of the artistic memory : time starts passing counter-clockwise, taking back to life what was dead and gone: authentic contemporaneity consists of the collapsing of the time dimensions: arts is useful to redefine ourselves, to reconfigure our identity, to constitute the memory of what we have been and - mainly - of who we could be. This is not an archeological search in our either near of remote past, but the awareness of how much this is an integral part of our space of existence. The 3x6 poster intends to be a taste of all this: it is a window and at the same time a crawl space. A crack that helps us glimpse what has been and what is to come. During the five days of the fair, the same works together with all the collected fragments of life shall be gathered in one exhibition to narrate this window opened to the world and for the world.
FLASHBACK_exhibition Pascale Marthine Tayou PLASTIC TREE an installation curated by Galleria Continua Jean Apollinaire Tayou was born in Cameroun. In the mid-nineteen-nineties, he changed his name and declines it to the feminine, becoming Pascal(e) Marthin(e) Tayou. Since then, Tayou has started a ceaseless artistic, geographic and cultural nomadism that led him to become one of the main protagonists of the contemporary artistic panorama. Tayou's work - right like his name - is intentionally mobile and escapes from any established pattern. Ii tis multifold, indomitable, fascinating, deep, unexpected, proliferating and multi-colored, always strictly linked to the idea of the journey and of meeting the "other than self". The work presents the tree as a symbol of the stability and the resistance of nature, while the plastic bags, which form the tree s foliage, are a fetish, a basic product of the contemporary world insofar as it accompanies the gestures of the urban consumption. At the same time the work is presented as a wandering object that scales back and forth between rural and urban. courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana Phillip King BEHIND ICONIC SCULPTURES. The creative process evolution curated by Patrizia Bottallo The exhibition shows the study of devising an artistic idea by Phillip King, one of the most significant English sculptors of the second half of the past century. Pupil of Anthony Caro and assistant to Henry Moore, Philip King started to be notices in the nineteen sixties and he still is a standing character in the artistic panorama, considered a turning key of modern sculpture at international level. The exhibition shows an unpublished selection of very rare drawings, watercolors and a sculpture that document ideas that then became masterpieces, key works of the English sculpture in the 20 th century. The selection of the drawings has a great historical value: the papers are drawn on both faces, since they are extracted from the original notebook of the English sculptor. FLASHBACK_lab COLLECTING THE BEAUTY. Art collecting, from the museum to the town curated by Mariachiara Guerra Collecting the beauty is a pedagogic project for children curated by Mariachiara Guerra, born with the will to extend and tell the reflections on collection as a private and public act of preserving objects, images, and works with different intents and values. From art collectorship to collection as a gesture of care of urban space. Collecting the beauty is built as a pathway of knowledge of ancient and contemporary art, which roots into and connects to urban history and with the territory, in the Ambition of providing the students with a toolbox which can help them recognize Beauty in every day s space. FLASHBACK_video THE NEAPOLITAN PARTNERSHIP. Mario Martone and Nicola Spinosa The section dedicated to the motion images focuses - for this new edition - on two documentaries developed for Naples' Superintendence (with Nicola Spinosa) by the Italian director and set designer Mario Martone. They are not actual art documentaries but - rather - movies featuring an editing with images linked to the urban reality: on the narrative form of the poetical documentary, between reality and fiction, with the aim of narrating the contemporaneity of art, investigating the balance between the objective and subjective view.
FLASHBACK_sound SOUND SPACES. Mauro Battisti curates jazz and sound concerts "The leading theme of Flashback 2017 recalls an impossible, fascinating inversion of time: being born old and rejuvenate until dying as children. In the macro-reality of the Universe, time travels to one direction only, but - as quantum physics is teaching us - the transgression to this law is "normal" in the world of the infinitely small. A different lens of observation can therefore present us different parallel levels of the same phenomenal reality. The language of jazz, thanks to its extemporary, transformative nature, offers the listener a similar kind of experience, since it may grasp the opportunity of covering reverse roads versus the "written" music, which are fixed in the conventional style-time line. Following this inspiration, in the lounge area of the exhibiting space the visitors can attend three high-quality musical appointments; three ad hoc projects presented by famous musicians who belong to the national and international jazz-oriented scene. Furthermore, from November 1 st through 4 th, in the exhibition space, the refined sound landscapes of Land(e)scapes, a project by Ivan Bert and Andrea Bozzetto, communicate in an extemporary discrete way with the works in exhibition, thus creating a timber texture of great effect and suggestion. FLASHBACK_talk COUNTER-CURRENT THINKING. From today to yesterday This year, the Flashback talks reach the 5th edition whose main focus is the temporal analysis of the cultural and artistic phenomena. During the previous editions of the fair the talks examined the topics by looking at how they had changed and transformed in time, thus approaching them from a dynamic perspective. This year instead, taking cues from the title of the program counter-clock world, as in the book by Philip Dick, we delve into the chosen subjects starting with analysing what is contemporary and merging it with the past, focusing on the actuality of the idea. FLASHBACK_storytelling COUNTERCLOCKWISE NARRATIONS The project, which has reached its fifth year, promotes - through narration - the sensitizing and the direct active involvement of the public ; an innovative key to approach and stimulate the critical sense aimed at incrementing the interest and attention towards art with its cultural, political and economic meanings. The guided visits, which will select specific works, artists or expressive languages, will build up a short immediate interaction: actual FLASHBACKS on history and curiosities suggested by the works in exhibition. The participants shall also be called to make up their own digital gallery of works. For info and reservations:
flashback days wednesday november 1, 2017 (upon invitation only) h 4pm 6pm preview h 6pm 10pm vernissage Sound spaces / Dialogue Cheikh Fall kora, voce, fx Gianni Denitto alto sax, h 6.30pm 8.15pm (with pause) The unmistakable, dry and sharp sound of Gianni Denitto's alto sax meets and communicated to the charm of the kora and voice of Senegalese master Cheikh Fall. The rythms and the chants, inspired by the Griot tradition from West Africa, are perfectly in synch with the lines and the improvised architectures of jazz that, more than a hundred years ago, got its essence from West Africa. h 8pm flashback_sound Ivan Bert trumpet, fx Andrea Bozzetto fender rhodes, analogical synth The shiny timber landscapes of Land(e)scapes, a project by Ivan Bert and Andrea Bozzetto, shall accompany the Phillip King s exhibited works as a sound installation. Four dates which find their inspiration in lines, forms, volumes and light; two poliedric musicians, refined researchers of sounds, who are active in important crosswised projects since their beginning. thursday november 2, 2017 h 3pm flashback_talk Sacred Art and collectors from ancient to contemporary Starting with a distinction between religious, sacred and ritual art, we want to reflect on the role of the buyer while keeping in mind the aesthetic quality, the spiritual worth and the market, by linking the role the ecclesiastic buyers played in the past and the one they play nowadays. Andrea Longhi (architect, historian), Roberto Mastroianni (philosopher, curator, art critic), Don Giuliano Zanchi (theologist, director of the Museo Diocesano in Bergamo) h 6.30pm flashback_talk Art and public space. Tomorrow, today, yesterday The reflection develops by analyzing the function of the artwork within a context and a community, starting from the Turin experience of Opera Viva Barriera di Milano, Artists: Raffaele Fiorella (tassoeleonora), Fabrizio Bellomo (Saluti da Cerignola), Alessandro Bulgini (Porta Fortuna), moderator Christian Caliandro (art historian). Ivan Bert trumpet, fx Andrea Bozzetto fender rhodes, analogical synth
friday november 3, 2017 h 2pm flashback_sound Ivan Bert trumpet, fx Andrea Bozzetto fender rhodes, synth analogici h 3pm flashback_video The Neapolitan partnership: Mario Martone and Nicola Spinosa In Luca Giordano's Naples (2001) In this documentary, the method through which Giordano's works are shot - insulating them from the urban tissue that surrounds them - is used to affirm the Neapolitan dimension of the painter. h 5pm flashback_talk Contemporary and historical photography. Signified and Signifier Photography nowadays, photography in the past, what has changed in time? How have content and shapes changed? The signified, as content, allows to understand or express the sense. The signifier is the form: their relationship defines the sign. A brief but significant speech about photography that, by content and form, may or ma not be called art. Andrea Busto (director of Museo Ettore Fico), Walter Guadagnini (art historian, director of CAMERA), Claudio de Polo Saibanti (president Fratelli Alinari) Sound spaces / Our things Paolo Porta tenor sax Fabio Giachino piano The two original musicians and composers, explorers of the urban sounds and non-conventional rhythms, lading artists of the contemporary jazz scene, come from a long collaboration in different bands. For Flashback the experiment the duo formula, presenting tunes from their respective latest records, where they are the leaders: "Beginner's state of mind" (P. Porta) and "North Clouds" (F. Giachino). saturday november 4, 2017 h 2pm flashback_sound Ivan Bert trumpet, fx Andrea Bozzetto fender rhodes, synth analogici h 5pm flashback_talk Art Design. Today and yesterday A debate to tell how artdesign was born in Turin, how and why it distincts itself from the simple product of design and how curious is its market. Artists of the BAM 2017 speak with Edoardo Di Mauro (art historian, professor at Albertina Academy and curator of BAM), Riccardo Ghirardini (artistic director of BAM), moderator Edmondo Bertaina (director of Gazzetta Torino).
h 3.30pm flashback_lab Collecting the beauty. Art collecting, from the museum to the town. curated by Mariachiara Guerra Area Lab Collecting the Beauty is the pedagogic project born with the will to extend and tell the reflections on collection as a private and public act of preserving objects, images, and works with different intents and values. H 5pm flashback_talk The future of the art system A discussion among art operators and university teachers. Speakers: Francesco Poli (university of Turin), Alessia Zorloni (IULM university of Milan), Massimiliano Nuccio (university of Turin, Collegio San Carlo of Turin), Paolo Repetto (historian and art critic), Luca Tomìo (historian and art critic). Sound spaces / Houdini Enrico Degani classic guitar Stefano Risso double bass An enchanting, amazing journey that - from the Renaissance music of John Dowland, Claudio Monteverdi and Georg Friederich Handel - reaches the original compositions of the two artists. Two of the more eclectic jazz musicians in the Italian panorama play with their deepest voice and with a witty game of musical illusion offering the public a new and fascinating musical show. sunday november 5, 2017 h 3pm flashback_talk Sparring Partner Art art and communication on the same ring Spreading and communicating art is a complicated work. Marzia Capannolo (art historian), Fulvio Bortolozzo (professor of history of photography), Paola Stroppiana, (curator and journalist), Elena Inchingolo (curator and journalist), Emanuela Bernascone (press and communication), Michele Bramante (curator), Edmondo Bertaina (director of GazzettaTorino) h 3.30pm flashback_lab Collecting the Beauty. Art collecting, from the museum to the town. curated by Mariachiara Guerra Area Lab h 4pm flashback_video The Neapolitan partnership: Mario Martone and Nicola Spinosa Caravaggio. The last time (2004) Based on the life of Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Mario Martone's camera breaks down and reassembles details that are now stolen from Caravaggio, and now to the popular neighborhoods of the extreme suburbs on Naples.