Fondazione Live «Willi the Cat» 13.11.2020
13.11.2020 — 27.02.2021
WILLI THE CAT
CURATED BY MASSIMO BARTOLINI AND LUCA TREVISANI
Exhibition dates: 13.11.2020 – 06.02.2021
Opening Day: 13.11.2020, 7pm – a conversation between Antonio Dalle Nogare, Nitzan Cohen, Massimo Bartolini, Luca Trevisani and others.
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.
A collaboration between Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation and the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bolzano.
With the support of Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano and Comune di Bolzano.
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.
WILLI’s Reading Room
William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside, 1985
Sun Ra, Space is the place, 1973
Yvonne Rainer, Hand Movie, 1966
Gordon Matta-Clark, Office Baroque, 1977
Les Blank, Burden of Dreams, 1982
David Campany, A Handful of Dust +
Elio Grazioli, La polvere nell’arte. Da Leonardo a Bacon, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2004
Robert Walser, Der Spaziergang, 1917
João César Monteiro, Branca de Neve, 2000
Daniele Del Giudice, Staccando l’ombra da terra, Einaudi, 1994
Agnes Martin, Writings Kunstmuseum Winterthur/ edition Cantz
Vitaliano Trevisan, Works, Einaudi, 2016
Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, Are we human ?, Lars Muller, 2016
Gaston Bachelard, La poetica dello Spazio, 1957 +
Dan Graham, Half Square Half Crazy, 2005
Michael Asher. Writings 1973- 1983 on Works 1969-1979.
Jean Genet, Un chant d´amour, 1950
Andreas Slominski
Coccia Emanuele: The Life of Plants, 2019. Polity Pres. Medford MA (USA)
Gregor Schneider, Invisible Dead Room, lecture at AA London, 2015-10-30
Installation view, WILLI the Cat, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, 2020, Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Installation view, WILLI the Cat, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, 2020, Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Installation view, WILLI the Cat, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, 2020, Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Detail, Work by Chiara Duchi, WILLI the Cat, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, 2020, Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Detail, Work by Annika Althoff, WILLI the Cat, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, 2020, Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Detail, Works by Gregor Schneider and Adriana Ghimp, WILLI the Cat, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, 2020, Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Detail, Works by Gordon Matta Clark and Irene Rainer, WILLI the Cat, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, 2020, Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Detail, Work by Italo Zuffi, WILLI the Cat, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, 2020, Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Detail, Works by Sara Cortesi and Italo Zuffi, WILLI the Cat, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, 2020, Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Detail, Works by Irene Rainer and Carl Andre, WILLI the Cat, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, 2020, Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Detail, Works by Lilian Polosek and Vincenzo Agnetti, WILLI the Cat, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, 2020, Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Detail, Work by Lilian Polosek, WILLI the Cat, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, 2020, Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Detail, Work by Filippo Contatore, WILLI the Cat, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, 2020, Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Detail, Work by Jonas Kolecki, WILLI the Cat, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, 2020, Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
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