Our Magic Hour

“Our Magic Hour” sounds like some trite melodic Long Playing record title, in fact the show, mainly a choice of installation works, will enact a blue-mood of pseudo-romantic atmosphere played in some dry, minimal and conceptual déclinaisons of Romanticism.The show will host six European artists, never featured before in Asia, combined in cross sections of European contemporary trends as issued from several XX century artistic sentiments.

If contemporary culture is known as a time of subjectivity revival, these artists, track down the pathways of a recognizable heritage characterizing European art history. David Renggli offers some hints of both Arte Povera and New Tendency, whereas in Hans Op de Beeck the imprint of Belgian Surrealism emerges as an evidence. Roberto Cuoghi’s work could be read as some present Joseph Beuys “Bastone Eurasiatico” an ideal bridge between European and Asian cultures, a streaming wave of Galvanic suggestions. Markus Schinwald’s research is permeated by understated influences of the Freudian revolution as the determination of XX century specific principles of the uncanny. Monica Bonvicini and Ugo Rondinone will offer some conceptual landscapes tinted by phlegmatic gender issues and in the latter, by melancholic distressed souvenir, both combining the sensibility of the differed doomed temper of Mediterranean narrative.

Thus, the show will support a counterpoint of visual and formal opposites arranged in installations of varied nature, operating with sound, video, painting and environment or sculptural qualities. Opposites of diversities, black and white, day and night, full and empty… Life and Death.