Re-Materialization of Language. 1978-2022
A Lecture with Irma Boom
17.1.2025 at 6 PM
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 can be purchased online through the publisher’s website or directly from the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation.
Kostenlose Führung um 17:00 Uhr. Im Anschluss an die Veranstaltung findet ein leichtes Buffet statt.
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).
