Almost forty years since their last exhibition together, Franco Vaccari (Modena, 1936) and Sanja Iveković (Zagreb, 1949) meet again in the exhibition “The Opening” at Galleria P420 in Bologna.
The Opening
The exhibition at Galleria P420 in Bologna brings together Franco Vaccari and Sanja Iveković, whose work in the 1970s has developed a new definition of the happening.
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- 19 February 2015
- Bologna
The important vanguard work of these two artists, both already active in the 1970s, has gone beyond the concept of performance to develop a new definition of the happening based on dialogue between the artist and the audience, activated from this point on as a fundamental agent in the invention and implementation of the work. The passive role of the viewer gives way to total engagement that “reactivates the processes of socialization and relation.”
Franco Vaccari writes: “The work develops in relation to how the viewer/participant, suddenly emancipated from the status of a mere observer, receives it and reacts to it, contributing to determine its form and meaning.”
The space becomes that of the gallery, the time that of the opening, in which everything is resolved, from the creation of the exhibition to the definitive experience of the work.
The exhibition has been organized with Espaivisor gallery, Valencia and will be accompanied by a catalogue curated by Marco Scotini.
February 20 – April 30, 2015
opening Friday February 20, 4.30 pm talk between the artists and Marco Scotini at MAMbo, 6–8.30 pm opening of the exhibition
Franco Vaccari and Sanja Iveković
The Opening
P420
Piazza dei Martiri 5/2, Bologna