Curator: Stefano Pezzato

Supported by: EKATERINA Cultural Foundation

Artists:

• Botto&Bruno (Italy)
• Michael Fliri (Italy / lives in Austria)
• Anastasia Khoroshilova (Russia / lives in Germany)
• Joan Leandre (Spain)
• Brian McKee (USA)
• Thomas Wrede (Germany)
• Danwen Xing (China)

Courtesy:
All the artists; Alfonso Artiaco, Naples; Galerie f5.6, Munich; Galerie Mike Karstens, Muenster; Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan; Hilger Contemporary, Vienna; MKgalerie, Berlin-Rotterdam; Project Gentili, Prato-Berlin

Special thanks to: Hilger Contemporary, Vienna and Art Sound-Vision


In these times of economic instability and existential uncertainty, of ever increasing tempo, of virtual spaces and ephemeral relationships, is it still possible to imagine a better world?

The pursuit of happiness, as sole raison d’être, appears to be imprisoned in the perpetual extension of the present in which everything happens and is frittered away to exorcize the fear of the future. The sacredness of life and faith in eternity have been replaced by contingency and immediacy, by motives of mere convenience and gratification, by endlessly repeated incitements to consume and compulsory satisfaction of one’s appetites.

In such a context what is wonderful and astonishing stands out: only what seems to be quite exceptional, even incredible, is really worth being taken into consideration.