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MUSEO D’ARTE
CONTEMPORANEA
VILLA CROCE
PRESS RELEASE
Desertmed
DESERTED ISLANDS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
December 12, 2013 – February 2, 2014
Press Preview: Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 11:00 am
Opening: Thursday, December 12, 2013, 18:00
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The Islands, and all the more so the deserted island, is a extremely poor or weak notion from the point of view of geography.
This is to it’s credit. The range of islands has no objective unity, and deserted islands have even less. The deserted island
may indeed have extremely poor soil. Deserted, the island may be a desert, but not necessarily. The real desert is
uninhabited only insofar as it presents no conditions that by rights would make life possible, weather vegetable, animal,
or human. On the contrary, the lack of inhabitants on the deserted island is a pure fact due to the circumstance, in the
other words, the island’s surroundings. The island is what the sea surrounds. What is deserted is the ocean around it.
It is by virtue of circumstance, for other reasons that the principle on which the island depends, that the ships pass in the
distance and never come ashore.
(from: Gilles Deleuze, Desert Island and Other Texts, 1953 - 74)
The Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce presents for the first time in Italy a multimedia exhibition that documents
the research project develop in recent years by the collective Desermed.
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
di Villa Croce
via Jacopo Ruffini 3, 16128 Genova
t +39 010 580069/585772
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Desermed is a multidisciplinary artistic group that has extensively travelled the Mediterranean in search of its “desert”
islands. Desermed articulates its research by analyzing the historical, political and geographical reasons of their
abandonment. The islands that the collective has visited have been divided into different categories according to their
current state: natural islands, private islands, tourist islands, natural oasis islands, prison islands, military or industrial
islands.
The research articulated through videos, photographs, drawings, sculptures, audio works, interviews, maquetts is
an attempt to offer “a poetic and conceptual cartography” of the last free spaces in the Mediterranean.
Desermed tries to visualize through the interaction between traditional technology and innovative digital media, what
is invisible in the belief of the strength of the interaction between different modes of representation.
The group, known internationally, has exhibited in major venues such as Berlin , Istanbul and Thessaloniki, initially
composed of Giulia di Lenarda, Armin Linke, Amedeo Martegani, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi and Giovanna Silva today
includes collaborations with artists, photographers, architects , sound artists, writers and theorists. (Daniele Ansidei,
Aristide Antonas, Elina Axioti , Angelo Boriolo, Giulia Bruno, Fabian Bechtle, Antonia Dika, Stefano Graziani, Wilfred Kühn
and Simona Malvezzi, Franck Leibovici, Carlo Marchi, Carlo Ratti, Donato Ricci, Stella-Sophie Seroglou, Francesco Siddi,
Andrea Tamburini).
Initial collective :
Giulia Di Lenarda, lives in Milan, photographer and researcher.
Giuseppe Ielasi, lives in Vimercate musician .
Co- curator of the Senufo Editions www.senufoeditions.com
Armin Linke, lives in Berlin , artist, working with photography, video and various media,
a professor of photography at the University for Arts and Design Karlsruhe.
Amedeo Martegani, lives in Milan, artist, works with drawing, photography and various media.
Giovanna Silva, lives in Milan, architect, photographer, artist.
Co-founder of the magazine San Rocco www.giovannasilva.com
Renato Rinaldi, lives in Cividale, musician, composed soundtracks for theater and radio.
Villa Croce inaugura un innovativo
modello di gestione pubblico-privato
grazie alla collaborazione tra il
Comune di Genova, Palazzo Ducale
Fondazione per la Cultura e un gruppo
di privati il cui supporto finanziario
permette la programmazione artistica
MAIN SPONSORS
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MEDIA PARTNER
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
di Villa Croce
via Jacopo Ruffini 3, 16128 Genova
t +39 010 580069/585772
[email protected]
Desertmed would like to thank
Flavio Albanese, Luca Alfonso, Carlo Antonelli, Paolo Berto, Milena Brambilla, Nina Brambilla, Roberto Badoglio,
Ilaria Bonacossa, Valerio Bozzo, Damien Bright, Alice Bulgari, Pierluigi Cacioppo, Renato Cafiero, Giuseppe Calabrese,
Gennaro Carducci, Carla Caredda, Aurora Ciardelli, Federica Cimatti, Massimiliano Cipriano, Paola Clerico, Paolo Colombo,
Siro Corriga, Sandro Cortis, Lieven De Cauter, Diego Domenico, Luca Fais, Carlo Forteleoni, Kurt W. Forster, Els Hanappe,
Rebecca Harms, Vincenzo Latronico, Michele Marchetti, Iginio Marson, Mauro Martino, Romina Mastellone, Salah Matmati,
Francesco Mattuzzi, Luisa Mazier,Carlo Alberto Mazzerbo, Daniele Milani, Giulia Nomis, Raja Noomane, Viviana Panaccia,
Francesca Pennone, Franco Pennone, Alessandro Petti, Valerie Pihet, Giulia Pireddu, Simona Pompilio, Valerio Rosano,
Annalisa Rosso, Luca Rotondo, Tassos Sakellaropoulos, Alessio Satta, Salvatore Schiano di Colella, Atman Sahnoun,
Lazarus Siakos, Alessandro Silva, Laura Silva, Paolo Soravia, Marina Sorbello, Benedetta Spalletti, Angelika Stepken,
Onofrio Storniolo, Elisabetta Terragni, Mario Tozzi, Silvio Vetrano, Adelina von Fürstenberg, Antje Weitzel, Edmond Zhupani
Desertmed want to thank you for the support
Albanian Ministry of Defense / Albanian Ministry of Tourism / Benaki Museum, Athens / Commissariat National du Littoral
d’Algérie / Commissariat Regional au Tourisme, Bizerte / Comando Generale Capitanerie di Porto - Guardia Costiera,
Roma / Conservatoria delle Coste della Sardegna, Cagliari / Corpo Forestale dello Stato, Roma / Direzione e Amministrazione
Penitenziaria del carcere di Pianosa e Gorgona / Ente Parco Nazionale Arcipelago Toscano / Ente Nazionale Tunisino
per il Turismo, Milano / Galleria Vistamare, Pescara / Ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart / Istanbul Museum
of Modern Art / Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale,Trieste / IUAV. Università di Arte e Design,
Venezia / MAXXI. Museo Nazionale delle arti contemporanee, Roma / Ministère de la Communication d’Algérie /
Ministère de l’Environnement d’Algérie / MIT. Senseable City Lab, Boston / Navionics™ / Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Villa Croce, Genova / NGBK, Berlin / Parco Nazionale dell’Asinara / Parco Nazionale dell’Arcipelago di La Maddalena /
Science Po Media Lab, Paris / State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki / Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens /
Telespazio, Roma / University of Thessaly, Department of Architecture, Volos / Villa Romana, Firenze / ZKM. Museum für
Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe
Desertmed would not have been possible without the enthusiastic help of Graphistudio, Arba.
Villa Croce inaugura un innovativo
modello di gestione pubblico-privato
grazie alla collaborazione tra il
Comune di Genova, Palazzo Ducale
Fondazione per la Cultura e un gruppo
di privati il cui supporto finanziario
permette la programmazione artistica
MAIN SPONSORS
SPONSORS
MEDIA PARTNER