Edited by Maria Rosa Sossai.
The modern era appears to us as a field of forces that are heterogeneous, stratified and difficult to read, within which the production of moving images has assumed a prominent role. Through a selection of videos and films by visual artists and filmmakers, the exhibition Modern Times (volume 1 & 2), whose title is a tribute to one of the masterpieces of world cinema, investigates some aspects of this renewed centrality of vision. The points of observation that the works present offer are multiple, demonstrating how in recent decades video and film production has expanded and diversified the areas of experimentation, entering fully into contemporary artistic research. If the use of various narrative typologies marks the return to the oral form of the story, the temporal stratification, the editing of found footage created by the artist himself or coming from archive material, signal the introduction of remix techniques coming from the musical field and the current integrated digital system, capable of unifying heterogeneous forms of communication. The use in some cases of the documentary style, the reference to the imagery of the first cinematographic shows, the return of the performance in the video and to the theatrical gesture, call into question the existing relationship between spectator and work. The metropolis returns to being a place to be told, in its emblematic quality as a cultural model that defines the notion of contemporaneity. Narrating through images seems to have become the constitutive sign of our knowledge which is structured around the ever-present need to build stories, a need that remains irreplaceable and still vital.
After Modern Times (volume 1), presented in October 2005 in various spaces in the city of Nuoro – the Man Museum, the Satta library and the shop windows of Corso Garibaldi – Modern Times Volume 2 resumes on 20 January, with a cycle of four exhibitions, each lasting two weeks, which will offer eight days of video works by talents belonging to the Italian and international art scene in the two spaces located on the ground floor of the museum.
January 20, 2006
Elisabetta Benassi , Mirages 1#3, 2005
Guido van der Werve , Number Vier , 2005
February 10, 2006
Josef Robakowski , From my window , 2000
Sabrina Mezzaqui , Lines , 2005
03 March 2006
Adrian Paci , PilgrIMAGE , 2005
Davide Bertocchi , Silt , 2005
March 24, 2006
Jesper Just , Bliss and Heaven, 2004
Raffaella Mariniello , Over and Over , 2005
