Do you come here often? is an unconventional habitat by Mattia Pajè. The Milanese artist explores the relation between various unpredictable elements at the Ponte Sanguinario in Spoleto. Reasoning intuitively, and escaping the cause-effect relation, Do you come here often? was conceived as a space by the bilateral symmetry, through which the artist investigates on the nature of human mind. The visitor is asked to dive deep into the environment and verify the effects of the work on him/herself. The Ponte Sanguinario is an ancient Roman bridge. It stands underneath the street level in Piazza della Vittoria, a few steps away from Porta San Gregorio and the Basilica of San Gregorio Maggiore. The access staircase is introduced by an iron banister; the installation transforms the Ponte Sanguinario through the use of light, that gives the historical site a brand new, unprecedented aspect.
Giovanni Rendina (1991)
is a young curator. He studied at the Bologna DAMS and at the Chelsea College of Arts in London; he was co-curator of Use/User/Used at the Zabludowicz Collection and assistant curator for a number of exhibitions at the Chelsea Space.
In March 2017 he curated A SLUMP, a solo show by Londoner artist Andrew Mealor at the Sogni di Ghiaccio icecream parlour in Bologna.
In the fall of 2016 he starts collaborating with the Mahler & Lewitt Studios in Spoleto.
His interests focus on contemporary art and the ethical aspects of curatorship, and on the respect of the artists’ intention while working on an exhibition.
Mattia Paje’ | www.mattiapaje.com
(1991) artist and artistic director who mostly works on the understanding of art’s entity, including the works of art’s production and usage processes.
Through experiments and exercises, Pajè analyses the various circumstances in which an action, a body, a space or an object can assume a meaning as works of art.
He intends his own body of work as a series of practices generating objects, spaces or tangible situations that interrogate themselves on their own essence.
In 2016 he founds the Sogni di Ghiaccio icecream parlour along with Filippo Marzocchi, an independent space dedicated to exhibitions, collaborations, discussions.
Among the events he was featured in:
Points Shop Now Customize, curated by M.V.Tagliati, CAR DRDE, Bologna; Any kind of vision in the air, curated by Gabriele Tosi, Anonima Kunsthalle, Varese; Microburst, an exhibition with Nicolas Feldmeyer, curated by Luca Bernardello, Paolo Bufalini, Filippo Cecconi, Tripla, Bologna, 2016; Sedentary Storm Chasing, curated by Gianluca D’incà Levis, The Others Art Fair, Torino, 2016; 490nm < GENERATOR < 570nm, an exhibition with Marco Casella, curated by Lelio Aiello, LOCALEDUE, Bologna, 2015; DRYER, curated by GabrieleTosi, i7 Spazi Indipendenti, ArtVerona, Verona, 2016; La Lingua Degli Affetti e Del Desiderio (project by Cesare Pietroiusti), RAUM, Bologna, 2016; INCIPIT, the memory theatre, curated by Alessandra Chiericato, UCA Canterbury, Canterbury, 2015; Secondo Livello, curated by G.Lufrano, OTTO Gallery, Bologna 2014; Qui non c’erano giardini, curated by Giovanna Caimmi, Veronica Ceruti, Cristina Francucci, MAMbo, Bologna, 2013.
