In the spring of 2016 Amalart returns for the third time to the W Museum in Iksan, after "A Message from Italy" and "The Artist's Dreams". This time the language changes: no longer photography and graphics, but video, installations and works made for the screen. The exhibition, organised by Amalart, is curated by Elena Abbiatici and brings together three voices of the Italian scene: the collective Alterazioni Video, Filippo Minelli and Carlo Zanni.
All three works look at a landscape that changes under the pressure of something external. Carlo Zanni's "Average Shoveler", commissioned by Rhizome in 2004, is an online pixel game: snowballs fall on a snow-covered street, each carrying a news item of the day, and two men keep shovelling to keep it clear. The saturation of images is answered by Filippo Minelli's silence: "Silence/Shapes", a project begun in 2009, gives form to silence with clouds of coloured smoke rising in abandoned warehouses, empty halls, car parks and deserts, as far as the San Andreas Fault in California. "Per troppo amore", the 2012 film by Alterazioni Video, instead travels through the public works in Sicily that were never finished, the "Incompiuto Siciliano", and presents them as ruins of a past that never existed, used by the inhabitants of Giarre as places for play, sport and dreams.
For the Korean public it was an encounter with a less familiar side of contemporary Italian art, far from the classic image of the country. For Amalart it is the third chapter of a relationship with the W Museum that will continue in 2017 with Lorenzo Sala's solo show.
The first exhibition in Iksan, October 2015: A Message from Italy →
