National Presentations
Re-Materialization of Language. 1978-2022
Edited by Cristiana Perrella and Andrea Viliani, with Vittoria Pavesi
Published by NERO Editions
Design by Irma Boom Office
On Friday, January 17, at 6 PM the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation is pleased to host the Italian premiere of the book dedicated to the exhibition Re-Materialization of Language. 1978-2022 (01.10.2022 — 10.06.2023). Graphic designer Irma Boom together with the curators and editors of the publication, Cristiana Perrella and Andrea Viliani, will talk about the book’s design.
Re-Materialization of Language. 1978–2022 represents the first attempt at a philological reconstruction of the seminal exhibition Materializzazione del linguaggio, while simultaneously re-activating and re-contextualizing its historical themes in the present. Long overlooked, the 1978 exhibition, curated by Mirella Bentivoglio and dedicated to the verbo-visual explorations of eighty international women artists across diverse materials and practices, both individual and collective, marked a belated reintegration of women’s and feminist art practices within an edition of the Biennale di Venezia that was not yet fully aware of their significance. Now recognized, after a long period of oblivion, as a turning point in the institutional emergence of women’s creativity and feminist art, Materializzazione del linguaggio was re-presented as a new exhibition in 2022, on the centenary of Bentivoglio’s birth, at Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation in Bolzano, and is now re-materialized in this publication.
Featuring visual and textual contributions from curators and editors Cristiana Perrella, Andrea Viliani, and Vittoria Pavesi; artists Tomaso Binga, Monica Bonvicini, BRACHA, and Nora Turato, who were invited to re-activate the exhibition; exhibition designer Matilde Cassani; book graphic designer Irma Boom; and Studio Mut, the graphic designers of the exhibition’s communication materials, this publication, like the exhibition itself, navigates between bi- and tri-dimensionality, blurring the distinction between artwork and document, between museum and archive.
Designed by Irma Boom Office, the publication also includes a photographic foldout showcasing the works presented in the 2022 exhibition at Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation in Bolzano.
The catalog has already been presented internationally at the Italian Cultural Institute in Warsaw, Harvard University – Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Giorno Poetry Systems and Magazzino Italian Art in New York, and it will be promoted by Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève in Switzerland.
Throughout 2025, the catalog will be presented in several Italian cities, including Bolzano (January 17, Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation), Bologna (February 8, Artefiera), Rome (March), Milan (April), and Naples.
The catalog can be purchased online through the publisher‘s website or directly from the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation.
Re-Materialization of Language. 1978–2022 is supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (2023).