The School for Curatorial Studies Venice, The Cool Couple and A plus A gallery present the exhibition “Good Night, and Good Luck.”
In October 1940, in a time when England was under German bomb attacks, Princess Elizabeth ended her first broadcast speech by saying “Good night and good luck to you all”. This farewell quote was a popular greeting among English citizens, in a period of time in which seeing each other the next morning was uncertain.
During the 1950’s, when the United States were dominated by the anti-communism policies of senator McCarthy, the war reporter Edward Murrow adopted this quote as a catchphrase to end his TV transmissions. In 2005, George Clooney used the same phrase to title a film dedicated to Murrow’s story. By portraying the reporter’s political battles, the movie brought to light not only his initiatives to reveal the obscure aspects of McCarthyism, but also his concerns about the use of television as a mere means of entertainment.
In a world in which images of progress, happiness and well-being are continuously created to disguise the real condition of economical, social and environmental unsustainability, the exhibition undertakes the potentialities of art in bringing to the gaze other possible visions and perspectives. Faced with the absence of any easy alternative that could guarantee a sustainable and promising future, it is an attempt to propose an ironical approach for a world that turns to be ironic for itself.
The show investigates how image can possibly emerge as a tool for critical action rather than as a representational device used to reaffirm given structures. With works that converge aesthetic and politics, within historical and contemporary contexts, it is an invitation to think about the power of the image to manipulate and to distort, but also about its potentialities to reveal and to resist.
Curators
Aderonke Akinyele, Paola Aluzzi, Chiara Argentino, Paula Bruzzi, Maria de Los Ángeles Donoso, Nelly Fili, Livia Zaffalon, Sheila Zago.
Aderonke Akinyele, Paola Aluzzi, Chiara Argentino, Paula Bruzzi, Maria de Los Ángeles Donoso, Nelly Fili, Livia Zaffalon, Sheila Zago.
Artists
Bill Balaskas, Discipula, Giuseppe Abate, Jakup Ferri, Marco Ceroni, Stefano Serretta, Stefan Baltensperger e David Siepert, The Cool Couple.
Bill Balaskas, Discipula, Giuseppe Abate, Jakup Ferri, Marco Ceroni, Stefano Serretta, Stefan Baltensperger e David Siepert, The Cool Couple.
Date:
с среда, сентября 28, 2016 по среда, ноября 30, 2016
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Price:
Free
September 28 - November 30, 2016
A plus A Gallery
Email: info@aplusa.it
Tel: +39 0412770466
Calle Malipiero, San Marco 3073,
Venice 30124, Italy
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