Third Annual Event
On Sunday, October 20, 2024, the Fondazione Bassiri will host the third edition of its annual event, Venti di Ottobre.
This year, the entire day will be dedicated to the theme proposed by the artist Bizhan Bassiri: VISIONE.
On the occasion of his participation in the 57th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2017), representing his country of origin, Bizhan Bassiri included, as an epigraph to the volume collecting the works exhibited at that event, proposition number 57 of his Manifesto of Magmatic Thought (1986-2024), which is still open to the flow of his intuitions: “Tapesh is the heartbeat when emotion prevails over reason and generates vision.”
In other parts of his “theoretical manifesto” in previous years, Bassiri had already provided other propositions regarding this founding outcome of his works – Vision, such as number 50 which states: “The vital hours that anticipate vision last a lifetime” and number 59: “By observing the darkness within the darkness, vision is realized in the flash of remembering the Future.”
This repeated reference to the concept that expresses the essence of the work of art has led the Foundation to dedicate the annual “Venti di Ottobre” initiative to the theme of VISION. It will therefore be at the center of a reflection shared by artists, philosophers, poets, scientists, musicologists, and scholars from other disciplines.
Vision is utilized in the speculation of visual thought but also of poetic, philosophical, scientific, psychological, anthropological, and even economic, social, and political thought. The poetic and pictorial Visions of William Blake, which Giuseppe Ungaretti’s translations have given us, are an emblematic example, certainly not the only one, but significant for the intensity and breadth of their content.
The Fondazione Bassiri aims to be multidisciplinary and to foster dialogue between the arts and artists. The initiative, designed by the artist Bizhan Bassiri and Bruno Corà, president of the Foundation’s Scientific Committee, and coordinated by Aldo Iori, director of FB Editori, Asia Simonetti, events manager, and Mitra Hematpoor, head of the Bassiri Archive, includes a series of moments that will take place throughout the day: a round table with interventions by artists, philosophers, doctors, musicians, historians, and curators, individual presentations, readings, concerts with some world premieres, as well as the presentation of new works in the Caveau and in the spaces of the Foundation.
At 10:00 AM, the following will be open to visitors: in the Caveau, the permanent work by Bizhan Bassiri TAPESH – The Golden Reserve of Magmatic Thought (2017), enriched by the presence of two large works, Il Nottambulo, presented at the Iranian National Museum of Tehran in 2019, and the world premiere of the audio installation Latitudine X-2 by Nicola Sani with live interventions by Daniele Roccato.
In the Studio, the exhibition VISIONI will be set up, featuring six artists in comparison with exemplary works: Carla Accardi, Dadamaino, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Bice Lazzari, Antonio Sanfilippo, and Emilio Vedova, in collaboration with BUILDING Milano, MAR – Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna, Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo, and Archivio Bice Lazzari, Rome.
At 11:00 AM, the day’s proceedings will begin, and after the institutional greetings, there will be a series of interventions on the theme of Vision, coordinated by Aldo Iori, director of FB Editori, with contributions from the artist Bizhan Bassiri, Bruno Corà (president of the scientific committee of the Fondazione Bassiri and president of the Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri), Germana Agnetti (specialist in psychiatry and psychology), Maria Isabella Barone (Archivio Bice Lazzari, Rome), Paola Bonani (art historian, curator), Roberto Cantagalli (director of MAR – Museo d’Arte della Città di Ravenna), Giuseppe Cerasa (journalist), Costantino D’Orazio (director of the National Gallery of Umbria, Perugia), Simona Marchini (actress, gallery owner), Liborio Palmeri (theologian), Gianluca Peluffo (architect), Nicola Sani (composer, artistic director, journalist), Tommaso Trini (art historian, essayist), and Giorgio Verzotti (art historian, curator).
After a light lunch at the Foundation, the proceedings will continue in the afternoon with an open debate and will conclude with the presentation of the volume IL DILEMMA, published by FB Editori and edited by Aldo Iori, which contains the proceedings of the Venti di Ottobre 2023 event with contributions by Bruno Corà, Bizhan Bassiri, Tommaso Trini, Ersilia Vaudo Scarpetta, Stefano Velotti, Elio Pecora, Chiara Parisi, Guelfo Guelfi, Roberto Lambarelli, Francesco Antonioni, Marcello Panni, Nicola Sani, and documentation of the exhibition Michelangelo nello sguardo di Aurelio Amendola, and of the works by Bizhan Bassiri, Shlomo Harush, Remo Salvadori, Sean Shanahan, and Renato Ranaldi, the sound installation by Francesco Antonioni, and the concerts by Paolo Ravaglia, Duccio Ceccanti, Erik Bertsch with music by Marcello Panni, Nicola Sani, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, and Marco Stroppa.
The event will conclude at 5:00 PM after the concert by Ludus Gravis. The double bass ensemble (Yvonne Scarpellini, Rocco Federico Castellani, Giacomo Piermatti, Federico Passaro), directed by Daniele Roccato, will perform music by Claudio Monteverdi, Arvo Pärt, and Daniele Roccato.
For participation, please email or WhatsApp +39 348 5154674. Availability until full.
RESERVATIONS: rsvp@fondazionebassiri.com
INFORMATION: Asia Simonetti, Events Manager – info@fondazionebassiri.com
Fondazione Bassiri, Via della Osteriaccia, Fabro TR
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