UCRONIA SPAZIO DEL POSSIBILE
The project of the alternative, through the drawings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Antonio Sant'Elia, Aldo Rossi.
Exhibited in Ca' Pesaro - International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice.
The images of Fiction are an integral part of the process we call Reality. Anything the human mind produces, whether it remains plain thought or it coalesces into drawing, text, building, still concurs to the making of Reality. The reading of a book can deeply influence our way of thinking and acting, even if reading is evidently a deeply abstract action. If Reality and Fiction are that difficult to separate, what is the point of distinguishing them?
History, as it is being told, seems to have slowly come to an alt. With the end of dialectical ideological oppositions of the 20th Century, somebody even argued for the End of History. This may be an excessively cynical point of view but the feeling of being locked in an eternal recurring present is widespread. The death of the utopian horizon sanctioned the Thatcherian hegemony of “There is no Alternative”.
The aim of UCRONIA – SPAZIO DEL DIVENIRE is to break this spell, weary of the trap laid by Utopias as the forceful occupation of the un-colonizable space of the Future, the “How will it be?”. Via three masterpieces, three windows open on the space of Possible Becoming, another question is posed; one that is not finalistic, one that gives us back the will and the power to re-shape our Present by not considered as a given. To ask ourselves: “How could it be instead?”.
The images shown are based on:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Il Campo Marzio dell’Antica Roma, Rome, 1762.
Antonio Sant’Elia, La Città Nuova, Milan, 1914.
Aldo Rossi, La Tavola della Città Analoga, Venice, 1976.
