WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | Pensiero video. Disegno e arti elettroniche.

The exhibition Pensiero video. Disegno e arti elettroniche (Video Thinking. Drawing and electronic art) presents works by Lucio Fontana, Hans Namuth – Paul Falkenberg – Jackson Pollock, Mario Schifano, Wolf Vostell, Gianni Toti, Fabrizio Plessi, Studio Azzurro, Bill Viola, William Kentridge, Grazia Toderi, Giacomo Verde, Michele Sambin, Nalini Malani, Quayola and of the “noble father” of the video experimentation Nam June Paik, whose extraordinary Little Italy” (1990) is exhibited. Authors who are different, far apart in time, geographic areas and training, but joined in a path of research tended to the return of a historical cross – section and to promoting an inedited retrospective look, which put in dialogue the personal and public sphere, the personal education of each artist and the evolution of the analogic and digital media, they chose to express themselves and to enrich their own research. “Pensiero video. Disegno e arti elettroniche”, allows us to enter in a relationship with a temporality that is different from the “frozen” one of photography or from the “animated” one of the moving images. If we accept the metaphor of the “time like a flow”, drawing, with its erasures, modifications, with the multiple and simultaneous assemblies of lines and signs, represents a model of “backbeat”. A backbeat that in the dialogue with the electronic works opens to a series of considerations on the image, on the gaze of the artists from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional plane of the finished work, in its composite declinations.