Ecologising BIENALSUR / Rethinking Beuys

Opening October 16th

Visits: Tuesday to Sunday from 5pm to 8 pm We are at the centre of a debate on the urgent need to rethink current development models, which squander resources and are responsible for the process of environmental and ecosystem degradation.

Today's social and economic mobility, sanitary and climate crises are closely linked to universality and globalization. This means that seemingly local choices have an impact on our daily lives or on other territories (the so-called "butterfly effect" formulated by the mathematician Edward Lorenz). In this context, the Fondazione SoutHeritage per l'arte contemporanea promotes the project Ecologizing BIENALSUR / Rethinking Beuys based on one of the axes of BIENALSUR 2021, "Ecological awareness", and in the conviction that art, like all human activities, has an ecological impact (materials used, air travel of artists and crews, transport of works of art, lights, projectors, etc.), The concept of the work is inspired by a piece by artist Joseph Beuys from the SoutHeritage collection (Olio FIU, 1985) and is modelled on the famous 7000 Oaks operation (a forest as a work of art created by the artist in 1982 for Documenta VII). The project envisages an evolutionary operation consisting in planting 2000 olive trees as a compensation for the CO2-eq emissions produced by the activities related to BIENALSUR 2021.

In this framework, this ecological infrastructure on a landscape scale as a cultural product is the result of a broad and articulated transversal operation that encompasses apparently distant disciplines and is shared by cultural operators and professionals from different fields who favour the creation of a space for dialogue, exchange and hybridization between art, agronomy, landscape, environmental restoration, botany, geology, (...).


Angelo Bianco Chiaromonte



Project promoted by: Fondazione SoutHeritage for contemporay art in the frame of BIENALSUR 2021. 

Drafted by: Angelo Bianco Chiaromonte. In association with: Roberto Martino. 

Coordinated by: Francesca De Michele. 

Produced with the support of: National Institute of Rural Sociology (INSOR) / Rome, Agricultural and Environmental Park of “Calanchi Lucani” / Matera, Bgreen Agri-Company / Matera; Historical Library of Agriculture and Rural Development of Basilicata Region, Palazzo Viceconte Cultura / Matera, Regione Basilicata, MiC, L.G. Studio / Matera, C.I.A.


Km: 11343

Venue: Fondazione Southeritage per l'arte contemporanea

City : Matera

Italy

Artist(s):

Joseph Beuys (DEU)

Curatorship:

Angelo Bianco Chiaromonte (ITA)

Type(s):

Exhibition

From 2021/10/16

To 2021/12/18