Avvicinare le distanze

The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, the Confcommercio Ascom modern and contemporary art galleries of Bologna, and Fondazione Zucchelli present the 8th edition of Opentour / Art is coming out, the format launched in 2015 and curated this year by Carmen Lorenzetti and Giuseppe Lufrano, whose centerpiece is a major distributed exhibition opening on Thursday, June 23, from 3 pm to 11 pm. This extraordinary initiative involves 29 galleries, non-profit spaces, and other public and private venues across the city, each hosting a specific exhibition project where the true protagonists are the works of graduating students and recent alumni from the past two years, who had limited opportunities for visibility during the pandemic. Opentour aims to support young talent by bridging the gap between their creative output and the art market, connecting the intense research conducted within the Academy with public and private art spaces—particularly galleries, the hub of commercial activity—to offer students a fertile, invaluable experience and a launching pad into their professional art careers.

In this context, in its spaces at Via Azzo Gardino 9, P420 presents the exhibition Avvicinare le distanze, curated by Cecilia Canziani and Davide Ferri; rather than a thematic exhibition, it is an exploration of the internal dynamics of the individual pieces on display, seeking a harmony between the trajectories of the works and the exhibition space itself. Spanning various media, including painting, sculpture, installation, sound, and drawing, all the works in the show operate within a tension of scale or meaning between two opposing poles, namely a proximity of elements that becomes energetic and generative, or a distance between distinct parts or planes of the work, between the artwork and the viewer's body, between the exhibition space and the site of creation, or between appearance and meaning. This internal movement serves as a methodological blueprint for the exhibition layout, translating into a dynamic activation of space through juxtapositions, divergences, and shifts in scale that emerged from the reflections and dialogues between the curators and the eleven participating artists: Lorena Bucur, Elisa Capucci, Lorenzo Ermini, Francesco Ibba, Mihaly Kovacs, Giacomo Mallardo, Gianlorenzo Nardi, Martina Pozzobon, Mehrnoosh Roshanaei, Tommaso Silvestroni, and Arianna Zama.