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Exhibition Press Release:
Mind Games
On Sunday 19th February Marconi Gallery will present “Mind Games”, a group exhibition curated by the artist Karin Andersen.
The theme of the show is a reinterpretation of identity according to pop culture mythologies, improbable dreams of our youth (and not only), latent talents and very personal imaginaries: how could we be if we weren’t what we are, if we had, on the contrary, realized the dream to become a star?
Karin Andersen has invited the partecipating artists to answer to the following questions: “if you were a musician, what kind of music would you play? What would your name be? What about the look of your records, and the way you would present yourself to the audience?” and to create CD covers, flyers, posters, gadgets and any other fetish-object that might illustrate the mind-game of reinventing oneself as a musical alter ego.
All the exhibition material is absolutely fake. Even the artists who are active in the music scene as well had to reinvent themselves according to the idol they would have wanted to become, revealing their own trash inspiration or their unconfessed love for country music, taking their hidden heavy metal gadgets out of their drawers, displaying their own imaginations about classic and contemporary music or even the mezzo soprano voice which up to now could be heard only in the shower.
Mind Games is the latest event of a work in progress which started with a first exhibition of fake CD covers, planned and organized by Karin for “Il Campo delle Fragole” Gallery of Bologna in 1996. The project has then been proposed in other places, thanks to the support and collaboration of Michele Mariano (artist), Edoardo Bridda (music critic), Christian Rainer (artist and musician), Andreas Flevin (writer and music critic). This latest special edition realized for Marconi Gallery features new works by 30 italian and foreign artists, and presentation texts by Edoardo Bridda and Andreas Flevin.
Artists participating: Arianna Carossa, Juan Carlos Ceci, Christian Rainer, Daniel Lee, Sara Colaone, MoniQue Monica Condini, Juha van Ingen, Hanna Yrjönen, Andrea Contin, Katharina Dieckhoff, Maicol & Mirco, Luigi Mastrangelo, Bruno Benuzzi, Marc Giloux, Michele Mariano, Sandro Natalini, Onofrio Catacchio, Elena Rapa, Roxy in the Box, Rachele Salvioli, SQUP, Fedra Boscaro, Vru & Sawa & Totò, Giovanni Bellavia & Beatrice Negri & Francesco Di Credico & Giulio Macaione
press agent Dario Ciferri
art critic by Edoardo Bridda, Andreas Flevin
translation by Patrizia Isidori, Giulia Wilkinson, Catia Mignini
from 19th February to 16th March
opening time: Mon-Sat 4 to 8 p.m.
Galleria Marconi di Franco Marconi
C.so Vittorio Emanuele, 70
63012 Cupra Marittima (AP)
tel 0735778703
e-mail galmarconi@siscom.it
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