Willi the Cat

13.11.2020 – 6.2.2021

Curated by Massimo Bartolini and Luca Trevisani

Fondazione Live

Willi the Cat

13.11.2020 – 6.2.2021

Curated by Massimo Bartolini and Luca Trevisani

WILLI the Cat is an exhibition that explores some of the possible relationships that exist between humans and animals, men and buildings, living creatures and places, life and unanimated objects.

From psychology to politics, from the voices heard by schizophrenics to the removal of the animal that lives inside of us and from outside, presses itself against a window to get inside, from the “barbarians” to the nomad and to the migrants, WILLI is a platform that develops by expanding some of the tastes of the idea of threshold, refuge, and dwelling, crossing from one perceptive state to another.

Architecture moulds our consciousness before we realize it, space commands with subtle imperative ways, but cats are phlegmatic, and teach us how to reject limits with elegance.
WILLI is a sensorial environment, a spatial and perceptual experience that displays some artworks of students of the Free University of Bolzano together with others from Antonio Dalle Nogare’s private collection, interwoven in a subliminal feeling.
WILLI is orchestrated by Massimo Bartolini and Luca Trevisani, with artworks by Allora & Calzadilla, Vincenzo Agnetti, Annika Althoff, Carl Andre, Charles Atlas, Filippo Contatore, Sara Cortesi, Chiara Duchi, Adriana Ghimp, Dan Graham, Jonas Kolecki, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Lilian Polosek, Irene Rainer, Gregor Schneider, Andreas Slominski, Michael Ungerer, Italo Zuffi.

WILLI the Cat seen through the eyes of Chiara Duchi

Chiara Duchi, one of the students shown in the exhibition “WILLI the Cat” walks us through the show, using different perspectives and thus creating different ways of experiencing it.
The sound in the background is from Michael Ungerer’s work “Black, green and a little bit of white” featuring his cat Willi, which inspired Massimo Bartolini and Luca Trevisani, the curators of the show, for the title of it.

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