Participating artists:
Marisa Albanese (Napoli, 1947 – 2021) / Francesco Arena (Torre Santa Susanna, 1978) / Edoardo Aruta (Roma, 1981) / Simone Berti (Adria, 1966) / George Brecht (New York 1926 – Köln 2008) / Gianni Caravaggio (Rocca San Giovanni, 1968) / Carmela De Falco (Napoli, 1994) / Salvatore Emblema (Terzigno, 1929 – 2006) / Irene Fenara (Bologna, 1990) / Renato Fiorito (Napoli, 1987) / Kamilia Kard (Milano, 1981) / Domenico Antonio Mancini (Napoli, 1980) / Eva Marisaldi (Bologna, 1966) / Matteo Nasini (Roma, 1976) / Yoko Ono (Tokyo, 1933) / Paint it Black (Margherita Rossi, Lucia Rossi e Pietro Rossi, publishing house and bookshop founded in Turin in 2022) / Perino&Vele (Emiliano Perino, New York, 1973 and Luca Vele, Rotondi, 1975) / Cesare Pietroiusti (Roma, 1955) / Nuvola Ravera (Genova, 1984) / Dieter Roth (Hannover, 1930 – Basel, 1998) / Gabriella Siciliano (Napoli, 1990) / Alberto Tadiello (Montecchio Maggiore, 1983) / Arrigo Lora Totino (Torino, 1928 – 2016) / Serena Vestrucci (Milano, 1986)
Cutting Clouds | Tagliando le nuvole is a program featuring actions linked by the common denominator of the ephemeral and the impermanent. The title refers to Cloud Scissors, a work conceived in the early 1960s by George Brecht. A few cards dictating places, times, and modes provide the instructions for a possible combined happening, drawing on multiple events: random directions to follow in order to shift creative boundaries through play and experimentation. The tools bequeathed by Brecht thus provide the stimulus for an exercise in imagination. In the liminal spaces of the museum, interventions and works present a potentiality, an idea of incompleteness by adopting various media—video, painting, poetry, graphics, photography, sculpture, drawing, sound, and performance. Cutting Clouds reflects the movement of clouds that flow fluidly and take shape through our gaze, changing yet never repeating, thus evolving through operations that aim to trigger potential creativity by appreciating the random, the improvised and the indeterminate.
