The WALL is a new exhibition concept that explores an object that has accompanied the history of humanity, and which is today front-page news, and yet also so commonplace as to often go unnoticed. This ia journey through the Wall, a sensational and creative, cultural and emotional event that transforms art and multi-media installations into a personal experience.
The WALL opens new perspectives of meaning, highlighting the wall as a cultural object with multiple meanings. It is a journey among walls that are psychological and expressive, political and social, functional and of remembrance, through artistic and historical dimensions.
The exhibition offers visitors an experiential and multi-media itinerary with interactive installations specially designed for the show, but also with historical backgrounds, literary references, videos, songs and works of art by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Giuseppe Uncini, Matteo Pugliese, Mimmo Rotella, Lucio Fontana, Hitomi Sato, Pink Floyd, and Christo.
The WALL takes an interdisciplinary approach that stratifies meaning and applies it to a single cultural object. Never before has the Wall been portrayed so transversally. The WALL thus represents entry into a deconstructed universe, one that is to be dismantled and reassembled, that is open to curiosity and expressive, cognitive, and historical experimentation.
It is the wall full of graffiti, the wall that bears our memories, the movie screen upon which we project stories, obsessions, and it is also a surface to be overcome, a faded canvas of Fontana that opens up real and imaginary tears.
The Wall defends us, but also separates us. It hides us, but we use it to express ourselves. It protects us, but we want to get over it. It unites by dividing. It hides by revealing.
A Wall never has only one side.
