EKATERINA PANIKANOVA | LA BIBLIOTECA DEL MONDO @ FONDAZIONE MEMMO

We are happy to share the partecipation of artist Ekaterina Panikanova in the group show La Biblioteca del Mondo, the ninth edition of ConversationPiece, curated by Marcello Smarrelli at Fondazione Memmo.

 

The exhibition provides an overview of Italian and foreign artists who have chosen Rome as their place of residence, activity and work. The title of the exhibition is a direct reference to the eponymous documentary directed by Davide Ferrario, which recounts the story of the renowned private library put together by the intellectual and writer Umberto Eco. The great academic considered it as having the function of storing the collective memories of humanity, a function that also applies to other libraries all over.

The ninth edition, titled 'La Biblioteca del Mondo' ('The World's Library'), features nine artists who, although they belong to different generations and have dissimilar working methods, use the book as a sort of construction material. Through a series of works arranged in an imaginary sequence starting from the facade of the 16th century Roman Palazzo Ruspoli and continuing in its courtyard and stable block, the exhibition evokes the image of a library as a repository of universal culture and collective imagination.

 

Artist: Yael Bartana, Nicòlo Degiorgis, Bruna Esposito, Claire Fontaine, Paol Icaro, Kapwani Kiwanga, Marcello Maloberti, Francis Offman and Ekaterina Panikanova.

 

Untitled (Forest), (2023), a site-specific installation by Ekaterina Panikanova, explores collective unconscious archetypes in relation to interconnections with social, cultural, religious, and familial expectations. Images, drawn in ink and ink wash, emerge as fleeting memories from the pages of books and amidst the intricate interplay of tree branches used in her sculpture, recreating a three-dimensional ideal book of memories, through the assembly of sculpted or moulded images and objects.

 

The opening will be 12 December 2023 from 6 to 8 pm @ Fondazione Memmo

 

INFO:

Fondazione Memmo

Via Fontanella Borghese, 56b, 00186, Rome

11 am - 6 pm

(Tuesday closed) Free entry