With the support of MIBACT and SIAE as part of the “Per Chi Crea 2018” initiative
the artwork: noneternit
NONèTERNIT is an anamorphic modular installation designed in 2018 by Gio Montez and composed of 24 Φ48 / 3 iron tubulars and 16 corrugated steel panels 0.87 × 1.8m. These materials were recycled from the restauration of the urban wreck in the historic suburb of Rome, Pietralata. The work does not have a predefined and univocal poetic as the raw and anamorphic artwork’s matter is redefined each time it is extracted from its case, taking on different forms in relation to the context.
URBAN REGENERATION MODEL
NONèTERNIT was born with the aim of professing the method for spreading a positive model of urban regeneration even outside the territorial reference area. This artwork conceived by Gio Montez has been defined the “semiophore of the urban regeneration process” in fieri in the the urban outskirt of Rome-Pietralata.
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An important input for the creation of the artwork NONETERNIT was the award in 2018 of the production prize “Creatures – art experiments in urban laboratories” awarded to Atelier Montez by the Open City Rome Association for the best urban art experiment.
Furthermore, the winning of the “Per Chi Crea 2018” call, promoted by MiBAC and managed by SIAE, was equally decisive, which kicked off a promotional tour in various European cities in the years 2019-2020.
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In 2020 the work was acquired by the Art Director Michele Cossyro in the contemporary art collection of “La Salerniana” housed in the G. Perricone Civic Museum in Trapani.
NONETERNIT has therefore initiated its way to the museum’s contemporary art collection.
NONèTERNIT On Tour
SHAPE # 1 – TAUMATROPIO
09/10/19 – 31/10/19
Title: NITSCH & HIS DOUBLE
curated by Gio Montez
@Atelier Montez (Rome)
NONèETERNIT’s journey begins in October 2019 in Rome, in Via di Pietralata, at the Montez Atelier on the occasion of the exhibition “Nitsch & his Double”. The modular anamorphic installation was presented in the form of the organ altar for the organ concert in situation of the Viennese master Hermann Nitsch.
SHAPE # 2 – TESTUGGINE ROMANA
11/11/2019
Title: BACCANALE
curated by Mirek Macke
@KUNSTVEREIN Familie Montez (Frankfurt am Main)
The first important stop on NONèTERNIT’s journey is Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in November 2019.
In Honselbruecke in the area facing the European Central Bank, the anamorphic modular installation takes the form of the Roman tortoise, a procession setting for 16 actors.
SHAPE # 3 – MURA DI CINTA
12-17/11/2019
Title: Die Römer Kommen
a interdisciplinary concept by Gio Montez
@ Das Internationale Theater Frankfurt
(Frankfurt am Main)
“The Romans are coming” are stories of Western civilization that expand between the origins of the Roman Empire and contemporaneity.
The story is presented in an exploded form, fragmented into multiple points of view and different poetics, multiple autonomous performative acts that form the European experience. The poetics of Antonio Bilo Canella’s Performazione, Gio Montez’s Art of Action and Claudio Di Paola’s Italian Dramaturgy are contaminated to create a phantasmagoric experience of unpredictable and unpredictable explosive visions that will lead the public to explore unexpected forms of Theater and Performance: nothing will ever be repeated, there will be no repeats, everything always new and unsettling; improvisation, poetry, videos, live samples, performances will merge into a single overwhelming flow. Taking a cue from the Myth and History that founded the Old Continent, we will cross the various eras up to its POST-DRAMATIC decadence and the landing in the kingdom of Chaos that dominates contemporary cultural expression; thus the work as a whole tends to experience an infinite variety of chiaroscuro effects of human thought and action, generating a (con) fusion between style and content, or the creative compatibility between different styles and contents. The themes explored experimentally are as archetypal of our ancient civilization as of the present one, such as the Myth of Aeneas, the History of the Roman Empire and the barbarian invasions, migration then and now, conservation and derivation of our cultural identity, the defeat of the Matriarchy and its revenge in contemporary society.
Different actions have been presented every evening, for which the entire Opera could be enjoyed by participating in all the evenings scheduled from 11.11.19 to 18.11.19
Director: Gio Montez
Actors:
Antonio Bilo Canella
Riccardo Grandi
Simone Galli
Simone Galli
Gio Montez
Giuseppe Grasso
Valentina Rimauro
Laura Grispigni
Lucio Fabale
Giulia De Sanctis
Giulia Goro
Claudio Di Paola
Giacomo Capogrossi
Dirk Baumanns
Müjdat Alback
Construction supervision:
Arch. Francesco Perri
Video Director:
Jos Diegel
Audio Direction:
Jaime Sanjuan
Manu Jimenez
Francesco Di Giacomo
graphics:
Loris Mf
SHAPE # 4 – PORTA DEL SOLE
12-17/11/2019
Title: Die Römer Kommen
a interdisciplinary concept by Gio Montez
@ Das Internationale Theater Frankfurt
(Frankfurt am Main)
SHAPE # 5 – LABIRINTO
15/01/20 – 15/02/20
Title: QUO VADIS
curated by Georgij Melnikov
@AA Collections Gallery (Wien)
Another city, another stage of NONèTERNIT’s journey. This time the anamorphic modular installation arrives in Vienna, at the AA Collections in the non-form of the labyrinth.
The exhibition curated by Georgij Melnikov presents individual independent modules, composed of a sheet metal panel and two tubular uprights suspended between the ceiling and the floor.
The modules, suspended in mid-air, fragment the viewer’s vision, preventing him from an overall perspective view and making the escape route inscrutable.
The work is a labyrinth not only physically, but also metaphorically: the elements that compose it make the space narrow and tortuous and reflect the apparently lost role of workers in the age of gentrification and globalization.
SHAPE # 6 – MONTAGNA
20/02/2020 – 6/05/2020
Title: PROMETEO
curated by Giulia Di Paola
@ B#S Gallery (Treviso, Italy)
NONèTERNIT’s journey continues and it is in the city of Treviso, on the occasion of the inauguration of the “Prometeo” exhibition at the B # S Gallery, that the work takes on a new form: the mountain.
The “Mountain” installation is a system of forces in equilibrium that allows the installation to be suspended in mid-air in the exhibition space by means of 10 counterweighted cement bags.
The roof of the burnt industrial warehouse floats in the air and is supported by the strength of a man who, like a modern Prometheus, dominates nature and gives meaning to otherwise shapeless matter.
“PROMETEO” expresses the drama of contemporary man in search of an unobtainable balance; condemned by the very condition of being a human being, inevitably a victim of his own action and excesses.
The exhibition highlights the need to raise awareness of this
phenomenon in order to fully take responsibility for it.
Giulia Di Paola
SHAPE # 7 – NAVE
25/07/2020 – 15/09/2020
Title: MARE NOSTRUM
curated by Michele Cossyro
@ MUSEO G. PERRICONE (Trapani, Italy)