“Lost in the Landscape” Curated by Cuban Gerardo Mosquera

Through August 31, MART- Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto –will be showcasing Lost in the Landscape (Perdidos en el Paisaje), an exhibition curated by Cuban Gerardo Mosquera and dedicated to the contemporary scenery and its multiple meanings: space, environment, territory, natural and urban landscape.

The display tackles the matter through the work of over 60 artists and this is the first time may of them exhibit in Italy. All in all, the show includes 170 pictures, 84 paintings, 10 videos, four video installations, four installations, four site-specificinterventions (Gonzalo Díaz, Takahiro Iwasaki, Glexis Novoa and Cristina Lucas), a specific web project (Simon Faithfull) and an artist book (Ed Ruscha).

What they describe in Mart is not the Garden of Eden or a new artistic genre, but the passionate and sincere look at the world, thus revealing its most dramatic and contradictory corners. In the catalogue (published by Mart), Gerardo Mosquera writes that the meaning of “landscape” simultaneously defines “the perception of a specific place and its representation”, so object and subject, environment and inhabitant are inseparable.

Nowadays, in the landscape conception of our time, the degree of subjectivity of perception involves the active agents in the transformations of a territory: those structures and individuals that intervene and define their own notion, which is now improved by including everything around us, from highways to forests, from cities to rural environments.

The show delivers three different reading levels: 1) an analysis on human tendency to take possession of the environment and identify and establish a dialogue with it so mankind becomes a representation of the scenery as such; 2) the supposition that landscape is not an artist genre but an exchange mean between mankind and nature; 3) the idea that every scenery is also the perception of certain place and its own representation. Experimented and built, contemplated and used, landscape and mankind are inseparable. When perceiving, getting to know and describing the scenery, mankind is at the same time an object of reality and external subject that narrates.

Artists

Marina Abramovi?, Tarek Al Ghoussein, Lara Almarcegui, Analía Amaya, Carlo Alberto Andreasi, Massimo Bartolini, Gabriele Basilico, Bae Bien-U, Bleda y Rosa, Fernando Brito, Luis Camnitzer, Pablo Cardoso, JordiColomer, Russell Crotty, Gonzalo Díaz, Simon Faithfull, Fischli& Weiss, Carlos Garaicoa, EmmetGowin, Carlo Guaita, Andreas Gursky, RulaHalawani, Todd Hido, Huang Yan, Carlos Irijalba, Takahiro Iwasaki, Isaac Julien, Anselm Kiefer, IosifKiraly, Hong Lei, Glenda León, Yao Lu, Cristina Lucas, Armando Lulaj, Rubens Mano, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Richard Mosse, Sohei Nishino, Glexis Novoa, Sherman Ong, Gabriel Orozco, Alain Paiement, Junebum Park, Paul Ramírez Jonas, VandyRattana, SzymonRoginski, Ed Ruscha, Guillermo Santos, George Shaw, GaoShiqiang, David Stephenson, DavideTranchina, Carlos Uribe, AgnèsVarda, Verne Dawson, Michael Wolf, Catherine Yass, Kang Yong-Suk, Du Zhenjun.