Marco Bolognesi SENDAI CITY
All Exhibitions26.9 – 11.1.2015
With works by
Marco Bolognesi
Curated by
Valerio Dehò
Sendai City is a metropolis, a mise-en-scène, a postmodern, decadent place, a non-place inhabited by cyborgs, created by an artificial intelligence and governed by multinational corporations.
Marco Bolognesi (* 1974) introduces us to his world that he constructs out of pop and science-fiction elements, out of toys, old B-movies, and comic figures, combining them with a technique that has always been his hallmark: the collage.
Picking an object, a figure, a story, from somewhere and connecting it to something else leads to something new, charged with a different meaning and filled with new life.
That is how Bolognesi builds a large installation, a city, combining toys from several generations of children; the playful element and the spirit of discovery that are inherent in these objects are transferred to the installation, merging with the fascination of the science-fiction world and the modernity's angst, producing dissonance.
This place is the starting point for the narration of the artist's world: "I am convinced that places are defined and characterized mainly by the things that happen there. That is why I animate my metropolis with figures and stories from my own world, with movies that I love, and with the culture that inspires me; stories that unfold on the streets, in the palazzi, in the trains of my metropolis of timeless future.“
In order to tell these stories, Bolognesi draws on movies, or, to be more precise: on the Italian science fiction movies of the 1960s and 1970s with their countless references to the politics and society of those days, looking at the future to discuss the present.
These old flickers by famous Italian movie makers form the basis for the artist's blend. He describes his world through the means of video art by adding new recordings and using illustrations and animation: a post-human and post-punk world.
Catalog: NFC Edizioni