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CANCELLED IAS Book Launch: Marzia Migliora - Seven Imaginative Exhibitions 1993-2024
30 October 2024, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
Join us for the launch of 'Marzia Migliora: Seven Imaginative Exhibitions 1993-2024' with artist Marzia Migliora and editors Anna Cestelli Guidi and Matteo Lucchetti.
This event is free.
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Institute of Advanced Studies
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IAS Common GroundG11, ground floor, South WingUCL, Gower St, LondonWC1E 6BT
*** A NEW DATE FOR THIS BOOK LAUNCH WILL BE COMMUNICATED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ***
Conceived as a concept book in which the body of works is reinterpreted through seven recurring themes in the artist’s practice, Marzia Migliora: Seven Imaginative Exhibitions 1993-2024 consists of seven exhibitions on paper. Each exhibition is curated by different curators, who envision them in emblematic locations within the artist’s biography, thereby configuring a personal emotional geography that spans Italy, from her birthplace of Alessandria to the salt mines of Sicily. The exhibitions are informed by themes such as rurality, the museum as a place of classification, devices for viewing and perceiving reality, community-building, extractivism, patriarchal oppression, and finally, interspecies metamorphoses related to the passage between life and death. The London launch of Marzia Migliora: Seven Imaginative Exhibitions 1993-2024 takes the form of a conversation between the artist, Marzia Migliora, editors Anna Cestelli Guidi and Matteo Lucchetti, collaborator Carolina Lio, respondent Giulia Carabelli (Queen Mary) and contributing curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes (UCL Institute of Advanced Studies).
Marzia Migliora. Seven Imaginative Exhibitions 1993-2024 is the first monograph of the artist. Curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi and Matteo Lucchetti and published by Nero in a bilingual edition (Italian and English), the book is realised with the support of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture as part of the Italian Council program (12th edition, 2023). It gathers over thirty years of the artist’s production. It includes texts and exhibitions curated by: Diana Campbell, Anna Cestelli Guidi, Francesca Comisso and Nicoletta Leonardi, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Matteo Lucchetti, Adrian Piper, and Andrea Viliani; and contributions by Eva Brioschi, Emanuele Coccia, Marzia Migliora, Elena Pugliese, Davide Quadrio, and Vandana Shiva.
About the Speakers
Marzia Migliora
Artist
Marzia Migliora was born in Alessandria in 1972. She lives and works in Turin. As an artist, she employs a wide range of languages, including photography, video, sound, performance, installation, and drawing, to create works that elevate the simplest human activities into moments capable of narrating fragments of collective history. Her recurring themes include memory as a tool for articulating the present and the analysis of labor as an affirmation of participation in the social sphere. The artist has also explored the human dynamics that have led to the capitalist paradoxes of industrial production as an extractive and divisive phenomenon for communities. Over thirty years of work, she has consistently sought to contribute to the reorganization of a more communal imaginary, focusing on minorities and their demands, and overturning social and political incongruities through multiple visual devices that emphasize the active participation of the viewer. In recent years, her works have embraced a multispecies dimension, incorporating animal and plant perspectives that contribute to new and necessary visions in times of global climate crisis. The artist’s work has been displayed at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and in shows and exhibitions in Italy and abroad including: MAGA [Museo Arte] Gallarate (2020), Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice (2017), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli (2012), MAXXI Rome (2012), Museo del Novecento in Milan (2011), Fondazione Merz in Turin (2006), FACT Liverpool (2005); MART in Rovereto (2004), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin (2004). The artist’s works form part of public and private collections in Italy and abroad: Madre Museum (Naples), Biedermann Museum (Donaueschingen), The National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington), Fundaciò Sorigué (Lleida), Museo Castello di Rivoli (Turin), Museo del Novecento (Milan), Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), Fondazione Merz (Turin), La Triennale (Milan), Collezione ACACIA (Milan), Collezione La Gaia (Cuneo), Videoinsight collection (Turin).
More about Marzia MiglioraAnna Cestelli Guidi
Editor
Anna Cestelli Guidi is an art historian and curator based in Rome, where she lives and works. After completing her education in Rome, Siena, and Berlin, from the mid-1990s she works in Spanish institutions such as the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea (CGAC) in Santiago de Compostela, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and the Fundació Metrònom in Barcelona. Since 2005, she has led the Visual Arts Section at the Fondazione Musica per Roma, based in the Rome Auditorium, where she developed the projects like ‘One Space / One Sound’ and ‘Sound Corner’, linking sound with visual arts. Among her curated exhibitions are the sound projects Italian Art To be Listened To at the NCCA in Moscow, 2010; Score. Between Image and Sound at the MARCO Museum in Vigo (Spain), 2014; Il corpo della voce for the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, 2019.
Matteo Lucchetti
Editor
Matteo Lucchetti is a curator, art historian, and writer born in 1984 in Sarzana, Italy, and based in Rome. He is currently curator for Contemporary Arts and Cultures at Museo delle Civilità in Rome. Since 2011, he has been curating with Judith Wielander Visible, a research project and support for socially engaged artistic practices in a global context of Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto and Fondazione Zegna. He worked as curator of exhibitions and the public program at the BAK in Utrecht in 2016-2018 and was curator of the 16th Rome Quadrennial. Among the most important recent curatorial projects: Pompei Commitment with Otobong Nkanga and Marzia Migliora, 2022; Climavore Italy with Cooking Sections, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, 2021; Marzia Migliora. The spectrum of Malthus, MA * GA, Gallarate; and Sammy Baloji. Other Tales, Lunds Konsthall and Kunsthal Aarhus, 2020. He has been a visiting professor at HISK, Ghent; Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam; Sint Lucas Antwerpen, Antwerp; and Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan.
More about Matteo Lucchetti