Luca Vitone. Last Journey
Luca Vitone, Last Journey. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome
Luca Vitone, Last Journey. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome
Luca Vitone, Last Journey. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome
Luca Vitone, Last Journey. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome
Luca Vitone, Last Journey. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome
Luca Vitone, Last Journey. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome
Luca Vitone, Last Journey. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome
Luca Vitone, Last Journey. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome
Luca Vitone, Last Journey. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome
Luca Vitone, Last Journey. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome
Luca Vitone, Last Journey. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome
Luca Vitone, Last Journey. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome
Luca Vitone, Last Journey. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome
February 5th - March 20th, 2009
Opening: Thursday, February 5th, 2009 from 7.00pm
Nomas Fondation, viale Somalia 33, Rome
Luca Vitone’s artistic research focuses on the relationship between place and map, between the materiality of things and existence, and their topological loss. Through video, installations, photography, sound, and performance, Vitone explores both physical and mental territories, and as well as social and individual spaces, analysing the identity of a place through its cultural products and seeking out in art, music, and food the moments when personal and collective memory intersect.
In this exhibition, the artist’s journey as an adolescent by car from Genoa to the Persian Gulf is retraced through the objects that together form the installation: desert sand, a Peugeot 204, photographs, and souvenirs. In Ultimo Viaggio (Last Journey), the objects that are arranged in the Nomas Foundation premises narrate the artist’s autobiography, and yet they also reveal a world of the imagination that the spectator can relate to, seeing something of their own lives within it. The memory of a journey is like a space-time experience viewed in terms of its own physical nature, far from the bustle and distractions of today and from the political changes that constantly transform geography and that have made it impossible to repeat that experience.
On March 16th, 2009, at 6.00pm, the American Academy in Rome will host the catalogue launch of Ultimo viaggio, with and introduction by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni and a critical text by Cornelia Lauf. The catalogue is published by Nomas Foundation.
Luca Vitone: born in 1964 in Genova, lives in Milan.
From the end of the 80's he exhibits in Italy and abroad.
Solo Show (selected): GAM, Bergamo, 2008; MART, Rovereto, 2007; P.S.1, New York, 2000.
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