“Art is made to disturb, science reassures” - G. Braque

The primordial explosion as a first step for future developments for a fascinating city, Trento, that wants to reborn starting from the culture. Four fragments of the city that connect and talk together enhancing their potential.

Big Bang: The re-opening of the Galleria Civica in Trento, artistic experimentation and research center of the city.

Big Bang: The opening of the MUSE, the Science Museum, designed by Renzo Piano with its new space and equipment, with the natural vocation to become a "place of knowledge" available to the public and the city and open to contamination between different forms of communication.

Big Bang: the thirty-third edition of the Festival Drodesera taking place at the Centrale Fies. Big Bang: The contemporary art gallery Boccanera that plays the role of catalyst and incubator of the experimental and contemporary scene in Trento and is actively participating in the rebirth of the city. For Big Bang Arte Boccanera propose topics such as nature, society, the scientific investigation, the use of technology, through the artistic practice such as Performance (Crispal, Miorandi, Raymond), Installations (Despotovic, Fogarolli, Sullam) and of audio-installations (Younes, Baba-Ali, ho1, Loskot, Lutyens, Shen) of internationally recognized artists.

The Gallery will host a special exhibition with one work by each artist for the entire month of August at its headquarter in Via Milano and to symbolize the interlacement and the collaboration among the different actors will open a pop-up space near the Muse.

Big Bang, The Exhibition: Big Bang, is the first moment of the universe, the crucial moment, the most mysterious, the most fascinating moment where our capability to understand must stop.

Infinite atoms that run through endless streets, expand, merge, create perfect mechanisms, evolve, become more, get alive, become men and women and wars, become God. They Become art.

The artists who put up this exhibition capture and materialize the poetic creative power inside the mysteries of science, inside the infinite possibilities of technology, inside the imperfection of social interactions, inside the symbiotic and conflictual relationship between man and nature, inside life and its apparent conclusion

The imagination of artists sensitive and observant of the world around them is the natural continuation of the unstoppable and polymorphic evolution of the Big Bang. And these artists invite us to find the art out of the art bounders and to be aware of the infinite possibilities enclosed in the reality.

The contemporary art exhibition taking place at Arte Boccanera at the same time of the opening of the new museum of science MUSE, becomes itself a way to reflect and to provocate the public, who is the audience of a science museum? and who is the audience of an exhibition of contemporary art? Is there an overlap? Are they basically the same person, but perhaps they haven’t realized it yet?

Big Bang, The artists: Maria Crispal (Teramo, 1980. Lives and works between Teramo and New York). After the Master's Degree in Literature and a Masters in European Planning becomes a founding member of the network Solstice whose projects co-financed by the European Union deal with social and environmental issues, integrating art, teaching and new media. His artistic debut in 2008 takes place in the spaces of S. Spirito in Saxia in Rome, this first experience have been followed by several exhibitions in Italy and abroad, in 2013 held a residence at the St. Martin's College London for the project Art-Ex involving the performance OPERA MAXXI in the MAXXI museum of Rome.

Nebojsa Despotović (Belgrade, 1982. Lives and works in Berlin). He graduated in visual arts and performing arts, and he also attended a course in painting at Accademia di Belle Arti of venice. He won two awards in 2012: Mango Young Artist Award at Swab International Art Fair, Barcelona and the Euromobil Group Under 30 Award at Arte Fiera 2012, Bologna. He has had solo exhibitions Both in Italian and international galleries and he have been selected to take part in group exhibitions in prestigious institutions such as "Opera 2011, Luna Park" at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in 2012, Venice. In its work, the attention is not focused on detail, but the atmosphere evoked recall periods, lives, stories and events that no longer exist and where the viewer can perceive the distance and loss.

Christian Fogarolli (Trento, 1983. Lives and works in Trento). In 2010 He got the Master degree Dentro L’immagine: studio, diagnostics and restoration of antique, modern and contemporary paintings, at the University of Verona and he graduated the following year in Management and Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the University of Trento. In 2012 he was selected for dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel in 2013 and he took part in the contemporary section of the Magnificent Obsession group exhibition at the Museum of Rovereto Mart. His career and work are characterized by a marked interest in the identity investigated through different perspectives and through constant archive research.

Richard Loskot (Most CZ, 1984. Lives and works in Usti nad Labem CZ). He studied at the Arts and Architecture at the University of Liberec and he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Monaco. He received special mention at the Prix Jindrich Chalupecky (2012). He has had solo and group exhibitions in Germany, the United Kingdom, Romania as well as in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Its works analyze the space from a technological point of view, in order to create open systems that relate together the environment, the natural light, radio waves, and, at the same times, the presence of visitors.

Marcos Lutyens (London, 1964. Lives and works in Los Angeles). He Bases his studies in social consciousness and dynamics, he has worked on large-scale projects that involve interactivity, environment and new technologies. These researches have given to him the opportunity to exhibit all over the world. His performances have taken place at: Gervasuti Foundation during the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2013), dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2012), Centre Pompidou in Paris (2010), Royal Academy of Arts, London (2009).

Valentina Miorandi (Trento, 1982. Lives and works in Brussels). She holds a degree in Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy in NYC where she won two scholarships. She holds a degree in photography direction (Esac, Barcelona) and an undegraduated degree from DAMS of Bologna with a specialization in theatre. She won the seventh edition of the Euromobil Group under 30 prize at ArteFiera Bologna in 2013. In 2013 She was selected for the group exhibition de Magnificent Obsession at the Mart Museum of Rovereto and in the Visioni future section at the Mediterranea 16, Ancona. Miorandi is a careful observer of the socio-political context surrounding her creative activity. This context is reflected in her works of singular artist's propensity to act as a witness.

Anna Raimondo (Naples, 1981. Lives and works among Madrid, Marseille, London, Brussels, Casablanca and Italy).Sh holds a Master's degree in Sound Arts from the London College of Communication, a and a degree in journalism from the University of Bologna, she also attended a course in electroacoustic composition in Marseille. Between sound art, radio art and performance, her research explores the listening as an aesthetics and politics experience, treating sound as a tool to generate relational spaces and problematize the notion of public space. Her radio works were disseminated internationally (Kunst Radio Austria, Deutschland radio kultur in Germany, Radio Tre in Italy, Radio Tres in Spain, the Biennale of Sao Paulo among others.) And her installations and performances have been presented in several festivals and exhibitions.

Kuai Shen (Guayaquil, 1978. Lives and works in Cologne). He graduated in Digital Arts at the University of San Francisco de Quito and he got a Masters Degree in Multimedia Arts from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. He took part, among other festivals and biennials, also at Manifesta 09 in Genk (2012). He wrote a book about his research "Biologically-Inspired Computing for the Arts" published by the University of Colorado. His work explores the relationship between technology and human sociality of ants. The two turntables in his installation, respond to the motion within a colony of ants, their sounds are recorded with a needle on a vinyl record.

Jonathan Sullam (Brussels, 1979. Lives and works in Brussels). He holds a Master degree in Multimedia at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and he studied art in public spaces at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. In his works, every device could be used in the construction of a public performance, and for him it’s fundamental the interaction with the space such as the involvement of the public.

Galleria Arte Boccanera
Via Milano, 128
Trento 38122 Italia
Tel. +39 0461 984206
info@arteboccanera.com
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Opening
Thursday. July 25th 2013 from 7PM (Galleria Arte Boccanera) Saturday, July 27th 2013 from 11AM (Pop-up Space Boccanera)

Performances
July 25-26-27-28, 2013

Opening hours
Monday – Friday 10am - 7pm; Saturday 9am - 1pm and 5pm - 8pm (Galleria Arte Boccanera)
Tuesday – Saturday 11am - 7pm (Pop-up Space Boccanera)