Domus contemporanea

From an idea by Vittorio Sgarbi.

Curated by Margherita De Pilati and Andrea Viliani

For the occasion of the reopening of the “villa of Orpheus” in Trento, the Mart presents the exhibition Contemporary Domus in the spaces of the Galleria Civica di Trento.

Under the banner of a demanding and often conflictual relationship with memory, but also within the horizon of a new reflection on contemporaneity and historical heritage, the exhibition presents works by 31 artists: 

David Aaron Angeli, Rosa Barba, Francesco Barocco, Vanessa Beecroft, Carlo Belli, Luca Bertolo, Antonio Biasiucci, Bn+BRINANOVARA, Andrea Branzi, Giuseppe Canella, Giorgio de Chirico, Patrizio Di Massimo, Mimmo Jodice, Carlo Maria Mariani, Angiolo Mazzoni, Fausto Melotti, Luigi Ontani, Mimmo Paladino, Giulio Paolini, Michele Parisi, Claudio Parmiggiani, Gianni Pettena, Salvo, Nicola Samorí, Alberto Savinio, Federico Seppi, Ettore Sottsass Jr, Nicola Verlato, Francesco Vezzoli, and Adolfo Wildt.
All the artists in the exhibition are engaged with the classical world in a dialogue based on appropriations and reinventions, and by rewriting them, they tend to acquire the forms, signs, figures and motifs of the archaeological imagery, often evoking the appeal of an art and culture known only through its ruins, its artefacts.

Source: www.mart.tn.it