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"Museophagia, the name says it
all, means the tendency or habit of eating museums. It is something that the Internet is beginning to do right
now, or at least it is taking nibbles. The first evidence of museophagia, in fact a kind of digital bulimia, was the attempt of Bill
Gates, through a company called Corbys, to gobble up by fact of digitization and scanning all the contents of museums and galleries that Corbys deemed
fit, to regurgitate them on line, at a cost, of course, via proprietary
channels. Museophagia, the website and the subject of this book, is more modest in its intentions than those of Bill Gates, it merely purports to consume via digitization objects (furniture, fixtures etc.) that Maurizio Bolognini took from art galleries of various cities, during a world tour starting from the Cavellini Foundation Gallery. Fair game..." (Derrick de Kerckhove, "Museophagia - The art gallery in the age of its digital reproduction", in Raptus, Nuovi Strumenti, 1999) "Out-of-date commodities have to be recycled. Which better re-use than the creation of a travelling room of wonder, like that proposed by Bolognini, who has returned from pilgrimages to exotic lands, full of objects standardized by the global economy: fire-extinguishers, chairs, note-pads... We are waiting, full of expectation, for an event that perhaps could be defined as the breaking of the icon, that could lead us to confront painfully the perception of the negated objects, that only the intention of the artist can remove from their everyday 'con-fusion'". (Paola Sega Serra Zanetti, "Phenomenology of an aesthetic-artistic event", in Raptus, Nuovi Strumenti, 1999) |
"Museophagia, lo dice il nome, significa tendenza o abitudine a consumare i musei. È qualcosa che Internet sta cominciando a fare proprio ora, o almeno si appresta ad assaggiarne alcuni bocconcini. La prima prova di
museofagia, in effetti una specie di bulimia digitale, è stato il tentativo di Bill
Gates, attraverso una società chiamata Corbys, di inghiottire, con la scansione e la
digitalizzazione, tutto il contenuto dei musei e delle gallerie ritenuti adatti, per poi restituirlo in linea, a pagamento naturalmente, su reti private. Il progetto Museophagia, il website e l'argomento di questo libro, hanno ambizioni più modeste di quelle di Bill Gates. Essi pretendono di consumare, attraverso la digitalizzazione, soltanto gli oggetti (arredi, infissi ecc.) prelevati da Maurizio Bolognini in gallerie d'arte di diverse città, che egli ha raggiunto compiendo un giro del mondo, iniziato dalla galleria della Fondazione Cavellini. Gioco corretto..." (Derrick de Kerckhove, "Museophagia - La galleria d'arte nell'epoca della sua riproducibilità digitale", in Raptus, Nuovi Strumenti, 1999) "Le merci inattuali vanno riciclate. Quale migliore ri-utilizzo che la creazione di una camera delle meraviglie itinerante come quella che ci propone Bolognini, reduce da pellegrinaggi in terre esotiche, ricco di oggetti omologati dal commercio globale: estintori, sedie, block-notes... Siamo in trepida e meravigliata attesa dell’evento, che forse potremmo definire di sfondamento dell’icona, che ci fa dolorosamente affrontare la percezione degli oggetti negati, che solo l’intenzionalità dell’artista strappa alla quotidiana 'con-fusione'." (Paola Sega Serra Zanetti, "Fenomenologia di un evento estetico-artistico", in Raptus, Nuovi Strumenti, 1999) |
"This work was not about the
globalization of art but took it as its background, implying an overall satellite view of the
exhibition system." (Maurizio Bolognini, Art and globalization)
"When I stand
before a work by Maurizio Bolognini I feel: [...] contrary to the
conviction of what one would call the de-subjectivised, de-passionalised
ambit of this post-electronic age, I feel. I see
as in a flash the gesture carried out around that time of showing the
unshowable, as in the exhibitions le vide and le plein held in
Paris at the Gallerie Iris Clert by artists who still thought that the
product and not the concept represented the great future challenge. [...]
Bolognini, on the other hand, who also thinks of the present world -
techno-productive, hard and soft - works at a 'decisional' level.
He is 'political'. He handles machines, software, contexts, constituting a paradoxical pattern of
'modes of use', and
only at the end (at the end of the decision and once the action has been
made) will he perhaps clarify or give a glimpse of the non-sense that
belongs as much to the work as to the appointed place."
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participating galleries/gallerie: About Studio,, Bangkok; Archivio Cavellini,, Brescia; Archivio Gualco, Genova; CACTicino,, Bellinzona; Galerie Air de Paris, Paris; Galleria Neon, Bologna; Galleria Cortese, Milano; Galleria Leonardi V-idea, Genova; Galleria Minini,,Brescia; Galleria Persano, Torino; Sandra Gering Gallery, New York; Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney; Jennjoy Gallery, San Francisco; Musée Gauguin, Papeari, Tahiti; Bunkier Sztuki, Kracow; Studio Morra, Napoli; Telles Fine Arts, Los Angeles
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shows/mostre: sponsored by: Archivio Cavellini , Brescia
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