NEXT UP
JANUARY 2025
Event Selection II
by Beatrice Rainone
NEXT UP is a column curated by Beatrice Rainone, dedicated to a critical selection of the most significant initiatives addressing new themes and languages through which contemporary art engages with digital culture.
Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019–24), Gerhard Richter
06.12.2024 – 01.02.2025
Gagosian Roma
A powerful and captivating sound: Rebecca Saunders’ trumpet, experimental composition, and a unique atmosphere that engages every sense. This is the beginning of Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019–24) by Gerhard Richter, the immersive installation presented by Gagosian in Rome. The film, projected on a screen over 7 meters wide, merges with music in an extraordinary sensory experience, where sound, light, and image intertwine, revealing the beauty of unpredictability and chance that characterizes Richter’s art.
For My Best Family, Meriem Bennani
31.10.2024 – 26.02.2025
Deji Art Museum, Nanjing
A mix of immersive installations and an art film co-directed with Orian Barki that explores social and family dynamics between reality and fantasy. Dreaming of summer? On the ground floor, Sole Crushing Anima 192 features flip-flops in a mechanical ballet that feels like a chaotic and collective dream, while on the first floor, the film For Aicha humorously and creatively tells the story of Bouchra, a Moroccan filmmaker, and her mother Aicha, tackling themes of love and identity with wit and animation. A project that blends the serious with the whimsical, with a good dose of anthropomorphic animals and intimate conversations.
Land Code, Bianco-ValentE
DAL 06.12.2024
Museo del Novecento di Napoli
Who hasn’t seen a hidden figure in the clouds or a face in a house’s facade? This visual phenomenon, known as pareidolia, is central to Bianco-Valente’s installation exhibited at the Museo Novecento di Napoli, thanks to PAC 2022–2023. The work reinterprets Pompeian and Herculanean mosaics in a contemporary version, using black and white marble tiles reminiscent of a QR code. With Land Code, the duo explores the boundary between perception and representation, blending tradition and innovation, and documenting the process in a video by Pasquale Napolitano. A work that challenges our vision of the past, inviting us to “scan” it with fresh eyes.
Beatrice Rainone
Born in 1999, she is an educator and museum mediator. Graduated in Art History from the University of Florence with a thesis on the concept of reproducibility in crypto art, she currently works in various cultural institutions in Tuscany, including the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, the Fondazione Pistoia Musei, and the Museo del Tessuto.
