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Saturday 8th October 2022 sees the return of the Giornata del Contemporaneo (Contemporary Art Day), the major event promoted by AMACI - Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums and realised with the support of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture, and the collaboration of the Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
In its 18th edition - traditionally held throughout the country, involving museums, foundations, public and private institutions, galleries, studios and artists' spaces - the Giornata del Contemporaneo returns in October, with the aim of recounting the reborn vitality of contemporary art in our country, after the restrictions caused by the two-year pandemic. The event maintains a hybrid format, physical and digital, to encourage and enhance the widest possible participation with online and offline proposals, and has as its leitmotif the theme of ecology, connected to that of sustainability: global urgencies that confront us with the need to rethink the contemporary art system through a renewed awareness and a more widespread sensitivity.
To give substance to this reflection, the directors of the associated museums decided to entrust Giorgio Andreotta Calò (Venice, 1979) with the creation of the guiding image for the event, which in the past years has involved Michelangelo Pistoletto (2006), Maurizio Cattelan (2007), Paola Pivi (2008), Luigi Ontani (2009), Stefano Arienti (2010), Giulio Paolini (2011), Francesco Vezzoli (2012), Marzia Migliora (2013), Adrian Paci (2014), Alfredo Pirri (2015), Emilio Isgrò (2016), Liliana Moro (2017), Marcello Maloberti (2018), Eva Marisaldi (2019) and Armin Linke (2021).
The image chosen by the artist is Icarus (2021-2022), the last piece of an articulated project created by Giorgio Andreotta Calò starting in 2019. From the half-light, a moth emerges in the foreground, its wings concealing the face of a young man who seems to offer it his hand as support with a gentle gesture. The lepidopterist and the young man appear to be communicating, and for a moment the moth's thin wings seem to become an extension of the boy's fingers, as in a beginning of metamorphosis that is triggered by the setting of the sun. Dusk thus becomes the moment of possibility, that territory of passage between the known and the unknown in which a teenager transforms into a young man and, spreading his still fragile wings for the first time, accepts the responsibility of becoming an adult and flying alone in the world. In the year in which the Giornata del Contemporanea is eighteen years old, Giorgio Andreotta Calò's image seems to respond in a symbolically open way to the invitation to reflect on the environmental crisis, emphasising the importance of passing the baton to the new generations, the adults of tomorrow, to whom we hand over the responsibility of building a better future than the present we bequeath to them.
Once again this year the Giornata del Contemporaneo is extended abroad from Saturday 8 October to Friday 14 October 2022 by the diplomatic-consular network of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, composed of Embassies, Consulates and Italian Cultural Institutes. In collaboration with the Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and thanks to the support of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture, the participation of AMACI Directors is encouraged in the events organised by the foreign network of the Farnesina and by the contemporary art realities active in the countries of reference.
La diciottesima Giornata del Contemporaneo, come nelle scorse edizioni, presenta diversi nuclei di attività: una programmazione ad hoc dei Musei associati AMACI, che proporranno un particolare focus su attività dedicate al pubblico dei diciottenni; le iniziative sviluppate in collaborazione con la rete estera del Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale (Ambasciate, Consolati e Istituti Italiani di Cultura all’estero); il coinvolgimento della rete dei Luoghi del Contemporaneo promossa dalla Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura; infine, le proposte dei soggetti aderenti che, sommate alle precedenti, rendono la manifestazione capillare, facendo emergere la rete diffusa delle realtà culturali che promuovono con vigore i diversi linguaggi del contemporaneo italiano sul territorio nazionale e internazionale. La manifestazione è come sempre caratterizzata da ingressi e partecipazioni gratuiti a tutte le iniziative.
Anche quest’anno la manifestazione si avvale del patrocinio della Rappresentanza in Italia della Commissione Europea, del Senato della Repubblica, della Camera dei Deputati, del Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, della Conferenza delle Regioni e delle Province autonome, di UPI – Unione Province d’Italia, di ANCI – Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani e di ICOM – International Council of Museums Italia.
To participate in the 2022 edition of the Day of the Contemporary, registration is required by 7 October using the form available at https://giornatadelcontemporaneo.amaci.org/it, produced in collaboration with Artshell.
For information visit the website sito di AMACI or write to giornatadelcontemporaneo@amaci.org.
Foto: Giorgio Andreotta Calò per la diciottesima Giornata del Contemporaneo, Icarus, 2021 – 2022
GDC2022 - Launch Press Release 27.07.2022
GDC2022 - Final press release of 20.09.2022
GDC2022 – Giorgio Andreotta Calò
GDC2022 – AMACI
GDC2022 - AMACI Museums Programme
GDC2022 – DGCC
GDC2022 – MAECI
GDC2022 – Imprese con l’arte contemporanea
GDC2022 – M&C Saatchi
GDC2022 – Artshell
GDC2022 – ICOM
GDC2022 - Closing Press Release of 17.10.2022
GDC2022 - Membership
GDC2022 - Video of the press conference (playlist on DGCC YouTube channel)
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