Valérie Da Costa, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art History, University of Strasbourg and member of the Scientific Committee of the Foundation Pino Pascali, addresses the concept of “the Mediterranean” in the practice of Italian artist Pino Pascali. Pascali’s work across a range of materials—including water, mud, fake fur, and steel wool—led to a reconceptualization of sculpture as a medium, as well as the exhibition as a space. Focused on the artist’s sculptural turn to the Mediterranean in 1967 and 1968, this lecture offers a re-reading of Pino Pascali’s work based on anthropology and critical texts of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Ernesto de Martino, and Pier Paolo Pasolini within the historical context of the beginning of Arte Povera. Da Costa’s research focuses on Italian art in the second half of the twentieth century.

This video is the result of the conference Pino Pascali: Between Arte Povera and the Mediterranean streamed on Instagram by Magazzino Italian Art, New York, as a part of the series “Una visione globale”: Arte Povera’s Worlds, a four-part lecture series exploring new insights into Arte Povera promoted by Magazzino and organized by 2019-20 Scholar-in-Residence Tenley Bick.

A short but intense journey around the idea of beauty. Architects Martino Pinto and Luigi de Palma guided our cameras in rediscovering the sense of measure, a taste for collectivity and detail as a common trait of living, inhabiting and working in the Apulia of the districts around Fasano, an ancient dowry preserved over time. It can be found in the small medieval rock settlement of Masseria San Marco and in the elegant seventeenth-century citrus grove of Masseria La Cerasina. “The great beauty is to be able to merge everyday life with work and lifestyle.”

Author: Nicolai Ciannamea

The video was realized in the field of the project Artvision+

Author: Paola Verardi

The Museum Pino Pascali awarded Hans Op De Beeck with Pino Pascali Prize 2017. The belgian artist tell us about his work and the show he presented in Polignano.

Author: Paola Verardi

Curator Christian Caliandro tells about the amazing art of Cristiano De Gaetano who died when he was only 36 years old. The exhibition is the first organized 4 years after his death and show his incredible practice.

Author: Nicolai Ciannamea
“A day with artist”, a long documentary (26′) about Francesco Schiavulli. The artist and Mirella Casamassima, critic and curator, take us into his artistic and everyday life by showing us how and where he works and telling us about the story of many of his artworks. During the movie, the artist also describes his own research and through his own words, Francesco Schiavulli explains the developments of his poetics.

Author: Santa Nastro
Students, professors and artists speak about the role of the Academies of Fine Arts in the framework of a project run by arTVision. These are the “light residencies” a few days of meetings, seminars, workshops, dedicated to selected students and future artists from the four partner countries of the project. Bari, Lecce, Foggia and Polignano a Mare welcome them with activities and more.

Author: Santa Nastro
To be an artist in residence is an opportunity to understand new artistic contexts, meet artists and curators from all over the world, and set up new project. This was also the aim of SAC – Mari tra le Mura and experience run by the Municipalities of Polignano a Mare, Mola di Bari, Conversano, and Rutigliano which hosted 20 artists who came from all over Europe, inviting them to work in beautiful territories and to participate in an itinerant show in the various venues of the programme.

Author: Santa Nastro
The Contemporary Art Museum “Pino Pascali” hosts a project room dedicated to a young Apulian artist: the show described here was created by Daniele D’Acquisto, who lives in Taranto and is already well known nationwide. In this video, the young Apulian artist presents his work, curated by Lorenzo Madaro.

Author: Santa Nastro
A French scholar, Valérie Da Costa, is carrying out research on the artist Pino Pascali. She has already written a book on the subject of Lucio Fontana and his sculptures, and now she is “walking” in Pino Pascali’s footsteps. In the documentary we follow her steps and listen to a conversation with the journalist Pietro Marino, who met the artist at her last Biennale and curated the opening show of the Pascali Foundation in Polignano a Mare, in cooperation with the critic Achille Bonito Oliva and the director Rosalba Branà. Branà and Marino tell us about that experience.

Author: Santa Nastro
Virginia Ryan is a female artist who comes from Australia. However she is a traveller, a nomad. She has spent her entire life moving between Africa, Italy and the rest of the world. Her work, here represented at the Foundation Pino Pascali tells about the myth of the Siren and of Mami-Wata. At the same time the documentary is an opportunity to explore her connections with the famous African artist Frederic Bruly Bouabré.

The art fair “The Museum and its surroundings – idea and substance” continues with the solo exhibition of the works of artist Fabio Mazzola entitled Sull’autobus n. 4 ho incontrato chi ha sognato di tagliarmi la testa (On bus number 4 I met the person who dreamt of beheading me) curated by Edoardo Trisciuzzi. With his performance the artist brings the routine of city life in the Pino Pascali Museum.
The concept of territory, especially in so far as it is conceived as “non-places” – term created by Marc Augé to refer to the anonymity of certain gatherings of today’s society – is essential to Fabio Mazzola’s artistic research. As a matter of fact, he sees territory as a screen on which to project his reflections on the relationship between individuals and their surroundings, thanks to a sharp experimental and technical versatility.

“Entering Nathalie Djurberg‘s territory is like crossing the threshold of our own subconscious. Eros and Thanatos chase each other, taboos are visually explored in a perfect synchrony between images and Hans Berg’s music. She has created tales for adults, in the dramatic tension between humour and horror, perversion and psychosis, which represents the allegoric context in which the young Swedish artist reveals the collective dynamics of our time, the obsessive rhythms of our actions, our difficulties in establishing a serene balance between man and nature”.

“The Chapman brothers have been able to inspire in the language of contemporary art a new aesthetic vitality that is suspended between tragical beauty and harsh reality. Therefore, they have shifted art onto the symbolical level represented by the irrationality of life and death, and have stripped naked the false consciousness of time and the turmoil of the human soul“.

This exhibition is the fruit of the collaboration between the Pino Pascali Foundation and the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro, with the support of the Apulia Region, the Consulate of Montenegro in Bari and the Gramsci Foundation in Apulia.
The project, curated by Rosalba Branà with the collaboration of Antonio Frugis and Mariapaola Spinelli, is held in Cetinje, with a collective exhibition of Apulian artists and a selection of video artworks from the Pino Pascali Museum collection. The main aim behind this project is to create a common cultural network among the countries that overlook the Adriatic Sea.