Mediterranea 16

Under the title “Errors Allowed” the Biennial of Young Artists of the Mediterranean proposes the works and performances of 200 artists, in the setting of Ancona’s Mole Vanvitelliana.

The International network Bjcem, that promotes the freshly re-designed appointment of the Biennial of Young Artists of the Mediterranean / Mediterranea 16, invited eight curators with different perspectives and cultural backgrounds: Charlotte Bank, Alessandro Castiglioni, Nadira Laggoune, Delphine Leccas, Slobodne Veze/Loose Associations (Natasa Bodrozic, Ivana Mestrov), Marco Trulli and Claudio Zecchi to work on the awkward relation between the over-national relation of an art Biennial and the radical specificity of the territories that constitute the Bjcem network.

In the actual context where the only common denominator in the Mediterranean appears to be a vivid social, political and economic complexity that strikes in many and sometime dramatic ways the countries on the area, the attempt the curators made has been in the sight to start a listening process and a careful review of the areas and their scenes – even remote – in order to let differences, pushes and needs emerge

On top: Pulse4Art, *Alpha*, 2013, Performance. Above: Marco Bernacchia *Above the tree*, performance, Mediterranea 16, Ancona, 2013

With “Errors Allowed”, the 2013 Biennial theme, the curators team is promoting a critic reflection on traditional “information regimes” and knowledge and training systems, by questioning their vertical institutionalization. The team also works on the search of those segments – sometime collectives but more often led by individuals – of self-education and informal learning that today are characterizing the more original and more meaningful experiences of knowledge production, ranging from the art and reaching any aspect of sociality, of cultural sectors and of the politics.

Andrea Magaraggia, *Iniziare a dimenticare il mondo*, lightjet print, 2011

The curators designed a grid of contents and in it they inserted the participation of the invited artists thanks to a palimpsest of eleven chapter informed by existential and cultural conditions as well as by the main philosophical currents: Vanishing Utopias, End of Modernism, Sometimes making something leads to nothing, Library, Tiers Paysage, Panorama, Semantic of Emotions, Crisis of Representation, Schizopolis, Actions, Memory of the Present. To these thematic chapters, as much exhibition sections will correspond. Hosted by the Centro Sperimentale di Design Poliarte, further, a Design and Visual Communication section will be added.

Andrea Magaraggia, *De sculptura*, lightjet print, 2010

A special homage to the city of Ancona curated by Manuela Valentini for Visioni Future will exhibit the work of six young Italian artists. Mediterranea 16 will host more than 200 artists selected thanks to the International Call promoted by Bjcem in close cooperation with all the associated partners in Europe, Middle East and North Africa. The first opening week-end – from June 6 to 9 2013– will act as a starting climax of the edition by hosting the performance program.

Valentina Beotti and Claudia Pajewski, *La Nobile Arte*, performance.

The main venue of Mediterranea 16 is the enchanting Mole Vanvitelliana, the ancient former hospital of the town that dominates one of the oldest harbours in the Mediterranean Area. This year will occur the 2400th anniversary from its foundation, a strategic moment for the city itself that has chosen Mediterranea16 as central event to boost a rich program devoted to celebrate its past, and more over, to go toward a future speaking of regeneration and rebirth.

Fedora Saura, *Muscles in music / Choice of the equals*, music, 2013

Dal 6 giugno al 7 luglio 2013
Ingresso gratuito
Mediterranea 16
Mole Vanvitelliana
Banchina Giovanni da Chio, 28
Ancona

Lena Durr, *Lèa*, from the series *Teen Age*, 2011

Mediterranea 16

Under the title “Errors Allowed” the Biennial of Young Artists of the Mediterranean proposes the works and performances of 200 artists, in the setting of Ancona’s Mole Vanvitelliana.

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