ATHLETIC – CHEZ VALENTIN
« ATHLETIC » a group show with:
EI ARAKAWA, ANNABELLE ARLIE, GABRIELE DE SANTIS, MIKE GOLDBY, ANTHEA HAMILTON, DANIEL KELLER, JACK LAVENDER, FEDERICO PEPE, BILLY RENNEKAMP
Curators: Andrea Baccin and Ilaria Marotta, CURA.
Installations, sculptures, ready-mades, anthropomorphic figures, graphics, useless machines, sounds and videos representing the production of nine international artist are devices for the conversion of the exhibition space of the gallery into the gymnasium setting of Athletic Valentin. The collective project curated by the directors of CURA., Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin, looks at a long and influential tradition of artist works and curatorial projects aimed at manipulating the exhibition space to turn it into a place meant for a different function.
In Athletic Valentin, the nine artists involved are called to destroy and rebuild, cancel the dimension of the original space and activate the conversion of space into another space.