Art Club #23 Club to Club

Club to Club brings together two quite heterogeneous artists, both of whom are sensitive when it comes to historical themes and figures, and their possible enhancement within traditional monumental apparatuses, reinterpreted however in contemporary key. As indicated by the title, which evokes a social habit associated with moving, especially at night, from one place of reverie to another, the “monuments” of the two authors are placed in various parts of the Academy, and their reception occurs thanks to a route free of predefined norms, thus underlining the heterogeneity of forms that allow the commemoration of a subject or iconic figure to be declined. Liliana Moro (Milan, 1961; lives and works in Milan) creates a secular celebration of the song Bella ciao with a sound piece (2010) broadcast at the entrance to the Villa, bringing together international versions of this piece of music, whose media and semantic universality she emphasizes. Texts and words are also at the heart of another of the artist’s works, Un temps (1997), in which a video/sound installation, placed in the Atelier de Balthus, animates an interactive reading of the notes to the text ofEn attendant Godot, a tribute to Samuel Beckett. Dancing Philosophy: How to Dance Deleuze, How to Dance Gramsci, How to Dance Bataille, How to Dance Spinoza (2007) by Thomas Hirschhorn (Bern, 1957; lives and works in Paris) occupies the Music Room. The video installation, whose title is a mirror image of the Art Club title itself, or vice versa, is a personal and original hymn to the philosophical thought of four of its most eminent exponents.