Under the mountain are the nuclear physics laboratories of the Gran Sasso where, in absence of radiation, dark matter is observed – the hypothetical mass which is said to make up almost 90% of the entire Universe. It does not emit electromagnetic radiation and can be measured only through its gravitational effects. Over the mountain, artist Margherita Morgantin will guide us through an interdisciplinary itinerary comparing scientific images with those of art and certain mystic traditions. This meeting aims to promote a dialogue between different languages and traditions, through a profound understanding of reality.
Margherita Morgantin, visual artist based in Milan, she was born in Venice where she graduated in Architecture at the I.U.A.V., studying methods of forecasting natural light. His work is articulated in different languages ranging from drawing to performance, moving on a thread that connects language, philosophy, mathematics, visual culture. Contact and coexistence, observation and imagination, are the open intervals that characterize his work. He has participated in contemporary art exhibitions in Italy and abroad, and carried out actions and special projects in different contexts, including Ca' Pesaro – Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna (Venice), Museion (Bolzano), Galleria Continua (San Gimignano), Villa Croce (Genoa), MAMbo and Xing (Bologna), La Biennale di Venezia Danza.
Riccardo Venturi is a historian and contemporary art critic. He has published among other things Mark Rothko. Space and its discipline (Electa 2007), Black paintings. Eclipse on modernism (Electa 2008) and Passion of indifference. Francesco Lo Savio (Humboldt Books 2018). Head of the public program of the ICA Foundation in Milan, he writes for exhibition catalogs, academic and non-academic publications, paper and digital, including "Artforum", "Alias - Il Manifesto", "Flash Art", "Doppiozero" and the site of writings and images "Antinomie", www.antinomie.it, which he co-founded. He teaches at the Brera Academy, NABA and elsewhere. It often crosses the borders – not only geographical – between France and Italy.
Informazioni
Entrance ticket to the exhibitions and the meeting: special rate of € 4.00, from 6.00pm, until places last
Palazzo delle Esposizioni - Rotonda
via Nazionale 194