GUIDED TOUR
‘ET2020/24’
Saturday 20 July, 16:30
On Saturday 20 July at 16:30 Fondazione La Rocca offers a guided tour of Eugenio Tibaldi’s exhibition ‘ET2020/24’ with curator Francesca Guerisoli.
The visit will focus on the site-specific project Informal Inclusion – Tempietto del Tricalle and on the various works set up in the foundation, representative of the last five years of the artist’s research. Eugenio Tibaldi has always been attentive to marginal aesthetics and the complex relationship between economy and contemporary culture. In most of his works different media coexist, united by a skilful use of drawing; the installations evoke metropolitan landscapes and synaptic connections that deal with the human and its criticalities.
Admission free while places last.
EUGENIO TIBALDI Alba (CN), 1977 – lives and works in Turin. An artist who has always been attracted by marginal aesthetics and by the complex relationship between economy and contemporary culture, in 2000 he moved to the Neapolitan hinterland where he began a work that investigates one of the most plastic and dynamic territories in Italy, beginning to draw a sort of map of informality. Through the study of the margin, Tibaldi’s works activate a processual dynamic that allows alternative aesthetics to emerge.He represented Italy at the first Malta Biennale (2024) with the project Informal Inclusion. In recent years he has worked in Istanbul, Naples, Cairo, Rome, Thessaloniki, Berlin, Verona, Havana, Bucharest, Turin, Caracas, Brussels, Tirana, Addis Ababa, Mumbai. His works are exhibited in public and private institutions in Italy and abroad. His solo and group exhibitions have been held in numerous spaces, including: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2007), Manifesta 7, Bolzano (2008), International Centre of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (2009), Museo Madre, Naples (2010) Thessaloníki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2013), XII Havana Biennale (2015), Museo Ettore Fico, Turin (2016), Palazzo del Quirinale (2017), Museum MCDA Manila, (2017), IIC New York (2017). Museo MAXXI, Rome (2018), Venice Biennale, Cuba Pavilion (2019), Museo del Novecento Milan (2019), La Galleria Nazionale, Rome (2020), Tenutadello Scompiglio, Capannori (2021), Pav Parco Arte Vivente, Turin (2021), Fondazione Pietro e Alberto Rossini (2023). He has been collaborating with the Umberto Di Marino gallery since 2001.
FRANCESCA GUERISOLI dott in sociology of culture and graduate of the School of Specialisation in History of Contemporary Art, she studies the relationship of art with the social dimension, the museology of the contemporary, new artistic trends. She is the artistic director of Fondazione La Rocca, of the emerging Museo Diffuso in Lentate sul Seveso and of Fondazione Pietro e Alberto Rossini. She collaborates in the curatorial programme of the Fondazione La Quadriennale di Roma and teaches at the University of Milan Bicocca. He has curated dozens of exhibitions and new productions, including – with Fondazione La Rocca – Eugenio Tibaldi’s project for the Italian Pavilion at the Malta Biennale 2024 and Daniela Comani’s solo exhibition. He has published numerous popular and academic essays, as well as critical texts in exhibition catalogues. He has written for ‘Il Sole 24 Ore’, ‘Arte e Critica’, ‘Alfabeta2’ and is currently a member of the editorial board and contributor to ‘Quaderni d’arte italiana’, Treccani.
