29.07.21 | 30.01.22
Area monumentale della Neapolis
Siracusa
Suoni, gesti, vibrazioni e visioni, sculture, installazioni, realtà aumentata, esperimenti di biodiversità e tecnodiversità. Per la prima volta Tomás Saraceno, artista argentino di origine italiana che vive e lavora a Berlino, considerato uno dei maggiori protagonisti della scena artistica contemporanea internazionale e uno dei più influenti attivisti per la salvaguardia del pianeta, rilegge e riscrive l’Area monumentale della Neapolis di Siracusa con un percorso narrativo sperimentale e multimediale creato appositamente, che sfida i modi dominanti di vivere e percepire l’ambiente.
Un’immersione che moltiplica le storie raccontate dal sito archeologico e si interroga sulla centralità della storia umana e in particolare su quella dell’Occidente, chiedendo ai visitatori di prestare attenzione alle reti di vita che ci collegano alle nostre ecologie circostanti.
La mostra, a cura di Paolo Falcone, è promossa dalla Regione Siciliana - Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana, dal Parco Archeologico e Paesaggistico di Siracusa, Eloro, Villa del Tellaro e Akrai. È prodotta e organizzata da Civita Sicilia in collaborazione con Studio Tomás Saraceno, INDA - Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico e Accademia d’Arte del Dramma Antico.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First and foremost, I would like to thank Paolo Falcone, who curated this exhibition, and who I have had the pleasure to work with in the past, as well. Paolo, it has been such a gift to be able to join you for another exhibition!
Thank you to the Park, in particular Carlo Staffile and Anita Crispino; to the whole team at Civita Sicilia, especially Renata Sansone, Barbara Gasperini Angela Campisi, Antonio Gerbino, Elisa Biscotto, Federica Tardani, Ombretta Roverselli; and Olimpia Cavriani, Andrea Giarrizzo and Vittoria Gallo. Thank you also to Rossella Bussetti, Andrea Benedino and Elisabetta Mariani, as well to Ivan La Mesa, Manuel La Mesa, Stefania La Mesa.
I would like to thank for their collaboration and enthusiasm the Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico and Accademia d’Arte del Dramma Antico, in particular Antonio Calbi, Elena Polic Greco, Simonetta Cartia, and all of the students.
A special thank you to Antonino Dentici, a member of the Arachnophilia community, for mapping the spider species that live here and helping us to attune to the park’s rich diversity.
Also for their support, Regione Siciliana - Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana, and Parco Archeologico e Paesaggistico di Siracusa, Eloro, Villa del Tellaro e Akrai. I want to thank Aquaporin Inside® for the water systems that run through the sculpture States of Water and will provide refuge and sustenance to any living being that passes by it.
To Bronisław Szerszyński, a member of the Aerocene community, for his essay “Drift as a planetary Phenomenon”, first presented at ON AIR at Palais De Tokyo, to Bernd Herzerog for coordinating the collaborative project “©Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, and to all of the writers whose work dialogues with this exhibition, thank you.
To project supporters at Acute Art, in particular Daniel Birnbaum, Jacob De Geer, Rodrigo Marques, Irene Due, and Isabela Herig.
To my studio, with whom we never stop dreaming, an incredible thanks to the leading members, without whom, nothing would be possible; Lars Behrendt, Claudia Melendez, Sarah Kisner, Manuela Mazure and Jillian Meyer. As well, for their work on this project thank you to Viola Castellano, Giulia Albarello, Lucía Cash, Meike Fischer, Ollie George, Dario Laganà, Vicente Macellari, Filippo Vogliazzo, Lucas Mateluna, Hans-Martin Schlesier, Alberto Vallejo and Filippo Vogliazzo.
Thank you to the Arachnophilia community, for the never ending journeys of extended sensitivities, especially Arachnophilics, Ally Bisshop, spider divination practitioners Bagheera kiplingi, Roland Muehlethaler, Antonino Dentici, Marco Capritti, Alessandro Barra, Paolo Inglese, Salvatore Chilardi, Viola Castellano, Paolo Falcone, Olimpia Cavriani, Maratus speciosus, as well as key scientific and research institutions, including Peter Jaeger of Senckenberg Research Institute, Markus J Buehler, and Leila Kinney of MIT, Macquarie University, Museum für Naturkunde and many more.
Thanks also to all the Museo Aero Solar and Aerocene community, for dreaming on flying together to free the air, especially, Derek McCormack, Nicholas Shapiro, Sasha Engelmann, Jol Thomson, Yasmil Raymond, Ludovica Illari, Glenn Flierl and Bill McKenna of MIT EAPS as well as Leila Wheatley Kinney of MIT CAST. And for the generous, long-term support of Eric and Caroline Freymond.
To my galleries, Andersen’s, Copenhagen; Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires; Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa; and Tanya Bonakdar, New York/Los Angeles, thank you for your support over the years!
And to my family, friends and supporters, in particular all of you who could join me here today,
Thank you!
Tomás Saraceno
