Palazzo Esposizioni, the largest interdisciplinary exhibition space in central Rome, is hosting once again the historic periodic exhibition dedicated to contemporary Italian art and its most current trends: a choral exhibition project that this year involves 54 artists born between the 1960s and the late 1990s, including 16 under the age of 35.
Entitled Fantastica in homage to art’s ability to open up new horizons, the 18th edition of the Quadriennale offer a narrative of the post-2000 Italian visual art through 187 works distributed over approximately 2,000 square meters of the ground floor of the Palazzo Esposizioni, with a significant percentage of site-specific productions. The exhibition is divided into five different chapters, reflecting the perspectives of the five curators Luca Massimo Barbero, Francesco Bonami, Emanuela Mazzonis di Pralafera, Francesco Stocchi and Alessandra Troncone.
Self-representation is at the heart of Luca Massimo Barbero’s section “La mia immagine è ciò da cui mi faccio rappresentare: l’autoritratto” (My image is what I use to represent myself: the self-portrait). In “Memoria piena. Una stanza solo per sé” (Full memory. A room of one’s own), Francesco Bonami explores the concepts of independence and autonomy in the new artistic generation. With “Il tempo delle immagini. Immagini fuori controllo?” (The time of images. Images out of control?), Emanuela Mazzonis focuses on photography and its use. Francesco Stocchi, in his deliberately untitled section, creates a perspective of collective procedural autarchy, restoring the centrality of the artist. Finally, Alessandra Troncone’s “Il corpo incompiuto” (The unfinished body) invites a comparison of possible contemporary narratives of the body ─ human, animal, mechanical.
The exhibition is promoted by Fondazione La Quadriennale di Roma, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, and is organised in collaboration with Azienda Speciale Palaexpo. The numerous performances on the calendar transform the exhibition into a place of continuous activation and interaction between body, space and artwork, amplifying and making the visitor experience more immersive.
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