… if it is true that every space narrates its own past and future history, then certain spaces are invented in order to narrate transversal histories, histories quite separate from the space, architecture, and the light. This is what has always happened with the spaces of Studio la Città. They have always been places where the works of art have been hosted in order to be seen, looked at but, above all, in order to allow them to tell and narrate their own history. And this… is a new space…which is about to narrate…from three. Three has been the number of premises and of fresh starts; three, including this latest building, the architectures inhabited by Studio la Città over time and now, on the banks of the river Adige, in the area of the city’s earliest factories, this exhibition aims at opening a new port for the public, the point of arrival and departure for images, works, and narratives of artists.
In this way the works are not simply installed but created on purpose, searched for and grown specially for these new spaces which lose their squeaky cleanness and begin to clothe themselves in these new stories, visions, and journeys narrated by artists through the most varied ways and means, styles and techniques. The architecture that will house them and, in certain cases, that determines them is the clean sheet, the volumetric support of the new space. The works, instead, will start off the journey. A New Journey will start with photography, video, installations, and painting… and hopefully will bring to Verona new voyagers and will join up with other places on the amazing map of Contemporary Travelling. This is the reason for placing in a new setting – immaterially hung like apparitions on the walls, sharp cones of laser sounds, vibrant or transparent colours, mobile architectural structures or presences signifying the space – the works of Gabriele Basilico, Pierpaolo Calzolari, Karin Davie, Lynn Davis, Arthur Duff, Herbert Hamak, Jacob Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Masuyama, John McCracken, Fred Sandback, Arcangelo Sassolino, Keith Sonnier, Ettore Spalletti …
Luca Massimo Barbero, 2007