The exhibition The still event (the stubborn gaze) promoted by Casa Masaccio contemporary art of San Giovanni Valdarno and by MAN, curated by Saretto Cincinelli and Cristiana Collu, it is proposed as a real “video exhibition” that delves into the changing border territory, which has always, and in particular in the recent years, has maintained a close relationship between cinema, video and contemporary art: the video works (central nucleus of the exhibition) are not in fact proposed as part of a screening programme, as in a festival, but each occupy their own exhibition space as moving images, both in individual darkened rooms if projection is envisaged, and in illuminated environments when they are originally intended for a screen or monitor.
The exhibition thus seeks to circumscribe and decline through the co-presence of plastic, video and cinematographic works, topoi and figures whose cruciality is demonstrated by the persistence with which they return to impose themselves on attention in different and significant seasons of contemporary research, and whose remoteness center of gravity seems to be attributable to the oscillation between fixed and animated, movement and immobility which, albeit according to a karst line marked by profound modifications, leads from the pioneering pre-cinema research to the radical experiments of Andy Warhol (Empire , 1964, etc.), by Michael di Snow ( Wavelength , 1966/7) or by Chris Marker ( La Jetée , 1963), from the birth of video to contemporary research.
The still event (the stubborn gaze) intends to continue on this fertile territory of investigation by trying to delve deeper into the idea of ​​an “enchantment of vision” which is achieved through the foregrounding of what we could define as a “less” dimension of the image: a dimension which, by failing, it ends up having an “apres coup” impact on the spectator’s expectations and on the expressiveness of works that voluntarily escape the eloquence and spectacular predictability of much of the contemporary visual language, but which paradoxically, as in a game in which whoever wins loses, they gain from the economy that characterizes them, an economy that ends up giving them a “surplus” of presence.
There are works by: Emanuele Becheri, Yael Davids, Cyprien Gaillard, Carlos Garaicoa, Carlo Guaita, Sejla Kameric, Ange Leccia, Paolo Meoni, Ane Mette Hol, Adrian Paci, Cristiana Palandri, Luca Rento, Guido van der Werve.
