" machinery and flesh
event of contamination technological
Frank Cellier, Stefano and Gianluca Nicoletti Moriggi
in collaboration with ITER and Contemporary Art Gallery Andrea
From 15 to 29 May 2010
Opening hours 15 May 19
Two weeks devoted to the relationship between humanity and technology in a context that preserves the sacred treasures and valuable relics. The Museum of the Florentines, in the Basilica of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini near Via Giulia, the festival hosts machines and flesh, "an event of contamination between art, debates, film screenings and dance performances, which finds its conceptual matrix in the volume of Gianluca Nicoletti and Stefano Moriggi "Because the technology makes us human, the flesh in his rewriting synthetic and digital, "published in 2009 by Sironi.
The initiative begins at the "Night of Museums", May 15 to 19, with the inauguration, in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Gallery Andrea di Vicenza, the exhibition unless the boat, that the Sicilian artist compares holy relics and fragments of contemporary humanity. 30 works, produced with advanced techniques and materials that also reflected the transformation of painting and its media, to communicate how, through metamorphosis and grafts of mechanical elements with anthropomorphic figures, the amazing scientific discoveries is evidence essential for the evolution of nature and the human being.
To explore the underlying themes of the initiative, to complement the exhibition, a talk show with a reading by the journalist Gianluca Nicoletti visionary and philosopher of science Stephen Moriggi with many characters and guests, including Richard Luna, director of the Wired magazine, Mark Pizzo, director of the Museo Centrale del Risorgimento Piazza Venezia in Rome, Giuseppe Sansonna, film critic.
inaugural event will complete the installation "image search and inhabited," an experiment in visual, tactile, and immersive sound, within the Falconieri Crypt, last work of the architect Francesco Borromini, designed by Fabio Fornasari for the National Research Council - Institute of Population Research and Social Policy. The seductive space turns into a subterranean architectural "glass of water" that will reflect the same area in an image that can be inhabited by those reflected in it, making suggestions through lights and sounds.
The museum will be exhibited also preside zoomorphic designer collection of Precious Giampietro Metamorphosis. Ladybug-shaped chairs, swallow, ant, whale and cobra are inspired by nature, literature and personal memory of the architect Bari, who moved to Paris, where memories are mixed with suggestions of authors such as Kafka , Calvin, Pascal and produce original creations, suggesting a user ' sensory experience, emotional and real.
program machines and meat "includes discussions / talk show (19 and 27 May at 21, May 26 to 18), a film festival license cyber (20, 21, 26 and 28 May at 21) and a big closing event on May 29 dedicated to contemporary art.
Initiative is sponsored by the City of Rome and the National Research Council - Institute of Population Research and Social Policy.
From May 15 to 29
machines and flesh "FLORENTINE
MUSEUM
via Acciaioli, 2 (Via Giulia)
Information: www.macchineecarne.blogspot.com
macchine.carne @ gmail.com ,
Admission: free, movie nights € 5
Closed: Monday
For press information
Francesca Cella
347 3313926 - fcellamare@hotmail.com
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