Curated by Marco Ferraris.

3 October – 5 December 2009

Muntadas, a prominent Spanish artist on the international scene, and Mariateresa Sartori, one of the most interesting Italian artists, meet in an exhibition curated by Marco Ferraris, the result of the dialogue between their respective artistic researches.

Muntadas’s work is directed towards the social, political and communication themes of the relationship between public and private space in a given social context; he investigates information channels and how these are used to censor news or disseminate ideas, using expressive means such as photography and multimedia installations. Mariateresa Sartori while focusing much of her work on video, also makes use of other media while maintaining a synthetic trait and a dryness of style that characterize her. The leitmotif of works that are also very different from each other is first of all a look at the world strongly influenced by her interest in neuroscience, linguistics and the philosophy of science that offer her particular angles from which to observe the human condition. “Movements and Situations is the common denominator of the works of Muntadas and Mariateresa Sartori, the two protagonists of the double exhibition at the Michela Rizzo Gallery. If for both the recording of movement in space becomes a primary artistic material, the photographs, drawings and videos generated by this observation have a markedly different matrix and nature. Profoundly autobiographical, the work of Muntadas – Spanish by birth, American by adoption, eternal traveler – presents a video and three cycles of photographs taken during the frequent transfers from one city to another, movements that are a fundamental part of his making art. By handing us a fragment of his movement, the artist actually reveals the complexity of his experience of the world: art, therefore, as information and perception. Starting from a scientific research – the video documentation of the Venice carnival crowd – produced by the Physics Laboratory of the City of the University of Bologna, the Venetian Mariateresa Sartori has made two videos and the cycle of drawings All those who go. The artist followed the movement of pedestrians by tracing their path with a marker on a transparent sheet fixed to the computer monitor. She then faithfully reported the result on large sheets of white paper. The traced lines create the space, drawing a landscape that does not actually exist. Although starting from the objective, even scientific, recording of everyday scenarios – Venice, New York or public places -, deeply linked to the personal experience of each one, Muntadas and Mariateresa Sartori filter reality through their artistic sensitivity, giving us back the suggestions of an interior landscape . “