On Thursday 30 November, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art presents The long hot summer, curated by Claudio Libero Pisano, twenty-four sound installations scattered throughout the museum spaces.
“It was the summer of 1958 and Orson Welles, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were crossing the incandescent land of their feelings, in the dense heat of the days and nights of the deep South of America. Their senses amplified and alerted. Life slipped onto a surreal plane where anything could happen, as it always does in summer. The film directed by Martin Ritt is the place from which the exhibition originated: a voice, music, a song, speech, a noise – everything here tells the story of summer. A few minutes to alert the senses and restore, beyond the gaze and the habit of observing and reading, a season that has inspired art, literature, cinema and music.
The exhibition also unfolds in places of the museum not designated for it, passages and areas not reserved for the display of works. The sound installations must be sought out and discovered, and in listening, every environment proves to be a space for art.”
Assistant curator: Francesco Giovanetti.
Collaborators: Giulia Buoncristiani, Marianna Casini, Gioia Cianchi, Manuela Fernandez, Anna Maddalena, Vincenzo Quartararo, and Agnese Rapisarda.
Special thanks to: Eleonora Minna, Mauro Palatucci, Bujar Sali.
The exhibition is in collaboration with the Zerynthia Association and with the valuable contribution of Expert.
Artists on display:
Sonia Andresano,
Sandro Bonvissuto,
Carlo Alberto Bucci,
Paolo Canevari,
Cecilia Casorati,
Anna Cestelli Guidi,
Jacopo de Bertoldi,
Iginio De Luca,
Sabino de Nichilo,
Bruna Esposito,
Paola Gandolfi,
Donatella Landi,
Myriam Laplante,
Martux_m,
Monica Micheli,
Fiamma Montezemolo,
Liliana Moro,
Anna Negri,
Elena Nonnis,
Isabella and Tiziana Pers,
Mario Pieroni,
Gioacchino Pontrelli,
Caterina Silva,
Donatella Spaziani.
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