NEW RITUALS FOR ARCHAELOGY OF THE FUTURE

edited by Francesco Ghizzani and Alessandro Romanini

exhibited works by: Mathelda Balatresi, Seni Awa Camara, Mario Ciaramella, Brice Esso, Xintong Gao, Vladimir Kartashow, Edson Luli, Goncalo Mabunda, Davide Paoletti, Assunta Saulle, Antonio Sidibé, Filippo Tincolini, Antonio Tropiano, Erjola Zhuka

inauguration: Saturday 6 April 2024 at 6.30 pm

Exhibition: from 6th April to 3rd November 2024

location: Versilia Archaeological Museum "Bruno Antonucci" - Piazza Duomo, Pietrasanta (LU)

Opening hours, unless otherwise specified: Tuesday to Friday 16.00-19.00; Saturday and Sunday 10.00-13.00/16.00-19.00

from 15th to 30th June: Tuesday to Friday 18.00-23.00; Saturday and Sunday 10.00-13.00/18.00-23.00

July and August: every day 19.00-24.00 and Saturday and Sunday also open in the morning 10.00-13.00

from September 2024: Saturday and Sunday 10.00-13.00/16.00-19.00

Press release

The exhibition “Worlds Beyonds World. New Rituals for an Archeology of Future” opens on Saturday 6 April at 6:30 pm at the Museo Archeologico Versiliese Bruno Antonucci in Pietrasanta (Piazza Duomo), produced by the Municipality of Pietrasanta in collaboration with The Project Space (Pietrasanta), Lis10 Gallery (Arezzo, Paris), Black Art (Naples), with the patronage of the University of Pisa and the Superintendence of Pisa, curated by Francesco Ghizzani – curator of the museum - and Alessandro Romanini. Paintings, sculptures, videos by artists from various cultural and artistic latitudes have been selected and brought together to interact with the museum's precious collection of archaeological finds, to give life to a reflection that involves the visitor.

A reflection that unites the various artists, relating to a liquid society, marked by widespread technological communication that in reality does not produce relationships but only connections and fuels narcissistic drifts, which have destroyed collective rites and common iconographic references and collective memory, impoverishing the capacity for imagination and production of new worlds.

In this context, the choice of the Archaeological Museum, which collects finds of material culture and memory of the territory and during the first year since its reopening has witnessed an intense and unexpected turnout, represents the ideal place, in which collective memory and material culture can establish a dialogue with contemporary forms of expression. In a time in which new digital technologies, artificial intelligence create new forms of reality by erasing the boundary between real and artificial, artists react by entrusting the response to creativity, giving life to new images that represent new potential worlds, marked by new rites and new myths, through which the visitor can venture between the past and the present.