EXHIBITION

Temporary Atlas Art Exhibition

Temporary Atlas: Cartographies of the Self in the Art of Today is an exhibition curated by Alfredo Cramerotti. It presents an alternative, complementary idea to mapping as conceived in a traditional sense. From 5 February until 29 May 2022 at Gallerie delle Prigioni di Treviso, our exhibition venue. The exhibition is itinerant and will also be exhibited at the Mostyn Gallery in Llandudno in Wales.

25 June - 25 September

Mostyn Gallery - Llandudno, Wales, UK

5 February – 29 May 2022

Gallerie delle Prigioni - Treviso

Curated by

Alfredo Cramerotti

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The concept of Temporary Atlas Exhibition

The exhibition presents an idea of mapping that is alternative to the traditional conception. We know that there are two maps – an objectively-driven mapping and an individually perceived one – after all, not every aspect of our environment or our life has the same value. Equally, there are cartographers-explorers and cartographers-artists.

The fourteen cartographers-artists of Temporary Atlas do not gaze exclusively on the outside but rather focus towards themselves, aiming to investigate their perceptions, identities, emotions, physical and mental sensations. They adopt the traditional approach to mapping (a representation of reality) but expand it along unconventional paths – identity, spirituality, subconscious, feelings or memories that interact upon each of us.

Walking through the exhibition, the visitor realises that however an artwork can engage reality, and reality is understood beyond representation, it is also true that much depends on which criteria we adopt to manifest this relationship. What we read in a representation (cartographic or artistic) depends on what methods and rules we intend to follow in this reading.

Temporary Atlas is an attempt to identify the fleeting border between these two extremes: a reading of the person who, in the midst of a global pandemic yet to be resolved, re-evaluates their own priorities. The exhibition aims thus to describe our emotional, political, aesthetic horizon. It explores, in other words, the visitors’ expectation that art can allow us to reflexively understand our daily reality.

The 14 artists: Sanford Biggers, Seymour Chwast, Jeremy Deller, Sarah Entwistle, Enam Gbewonyo, Rochelle Goldberg, Oliver Laric, James Lewis, Ibrahim Mahama, Paul Maheke, Matt Mullican, Otobong Nkanga, Kiki Smith, and Walid Raad.

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