SongEun ArtSpace is delighted to announce an upcoming project, 'Italy in SongEun : We Have Never Been Modern.'
Started in 2012, this annual project is in conjunction with one country, aiming for introducing young contemporary artists in each country and providing a chance to experience Korean art as well as exchanging art and culture. After 'Switzerland in SongEun : Reflections from Nature' in 2012, and 'France in SongEun :The French Haunted House' in 2013, the third country is Italy and the exhibition will shed light on Italian young artists' challenge and experiment with unique approach to modernism in various ways and concepts.
The title is borrowed from the essay about 'modernity' by French anthropologist Bruno Latour, and he said modernism we think is progress proceeded in objective and unified way in everywhere. In basis of this critical considerate, there is an important question for Western society where has enforced own thought to different cultural areas. Now, 'modern' does not mean jumping on time passing through a boundary between past and future. Even though arts emphasize contemporary issue and are subjective, it is closely connected with universally focused flow of the age or local issues, and cogitation and groping start from here.
Such question is a core of the project. 22 artists in the exhibition are born between 1965 and the mid of 1980s, and they have showed sensitivity embracing all ages and developed works in various types of arts. Works encountering with architecture, media, literature, philosophy, anthropology and social science reflect their aesthetic and expressive experiment tendency as much as possible.
The exhibition will draw a picture of Italian art and show how each artist accepts modernity and expresses it as art according to 5 subjects, 'Uninventing Modernity,' 'Plurality of Worlds,' 'Parallel Cosmograms,' 'Policies of Nature,' and 'Thinking about the Present.'
*image (left)
Alberto Tadiello
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Turin
Courtesy T293, Naples - Rome
