Despite the challenges posed by the current context, the SoutHeritage Foundation continues to support contemporary creation with its “OPEN? inside and outside SoutHeritage in 6 parts ". Starting from Friday 30 April, the third exhibition session of the program dedicated to the artist Sergio Racanati and his in situ project “To futureless memory - possibility of a memorial” will be visible, conceived as a reflection on this particular historical moment of ongoing health emergency. The installation is accompanied by a text written by Annalisa Rimmaudo (art historian and curator - Center Georges Pompidou), conceived as an in-depth study of some thematic nuclei of the artist's research and as a reading tool that offers particular accesses of meaning to the project production.
With the "OPEN?" the SoutHeritage Foundation proposes a series of exhibition episodes that interrupt the rhythm of the scheduled exhibitions, to present a series of artistic initiatives designed on a scale appropriate to the unexpected urgencies of the moment, promoting an exhibition project built around six consecutive closings of the foundation's spaces, six visual and experiential modes specially selected, by as many contemporary artists: Francesco Balilla Pratella, Henry Flynt, Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Sergio Racanati, Ben Vautier, Lawrence Weiner.
The individual artistic interventions envisaged by the program - which form a schedule of visions on the production of artists who have worked on the concept of closure, foreclosure and reduction, oscillating between dismantling and construction of an exhibition - are also guided by a close dialogue with the particularities spaces of the foundation's architecture, a 16th century noble chapel, which has an architectural portion suited to a vestibule, a metaphorical space par excellence, both internal and external at the same time.
The project fits fully in the wake of the radical ideas and approaches to the exhibition formats promoted by the foundation which, since its inception, have always been aimed at reshaping and reconfiguring the concept of the exhibition. In this context, the works of the "OPEN?" they are presented as a staging freely usable by the urban context; in this way, this special interim program, inspired by the urgencies of the moment and by the architectural conformation of the spaces of the foundation, brings art and artists back to the public space - between the city and the exhibition venue - inviting visitors to take a walk in the heart of the districts Sassi (UNESCO World Heritage Site), to renew knowledge of both contemporary art and the history of the city.