The Ferrara Galleries of Modern and Contemporary Art and Xing present ART FALL ’11 Contemporary Ferrara. Now in its fourth edition, the event presents Simone, Invernomuto’s first solo exhibition in an institutional space. The exhibition represents an important moment in a now rich and layered journey. Precisely for this reason, Simone on the one hand looks toward the production of the latest

years of the duo, on the other it opens up and anticipates new developments.

The exhibition unfolds on the two floors of the Contemporary Art Pavilion and includes the presentation of three new works that bring to life an audiovisual and synesthetic landscape that best represents Invernomuto’s poetics and universe.

The entire ground floor is dedicated to Wax, Relax (2011, wax, dimensions variable, soundtrack by

Hieroglyphic Being) that – set up as a sculpture in the exhibition Terre Vulnerabili at Hangar Bicocca in 2011 – is configured at PAC as a dynamic new work. A white wax grotto-a copy of a replica of the grotto of Lourdes in Vernasca, Invernomuto’s home town-is bathed in a beam of lights while a soundtrack plays in the environment. The ensemble creates an unlikely village attraction. son et lumière, specially recreated for the spaces of the

Pavilion.

Boomeria is instead a 16mm film (10′, 2011) screened upstairs at PAC and made in California between the winter and spring of 2011. A project conceived for years and finally filmed in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the film is a kind of portrait of a character and the place to which he gave birth: Mr. Boomer is a chemistry and physics teacher who has lived in Boomeria-a 100-square-meter castle entirely self-built and equipped with mazes, underground and bizarre management systems-for more than 40 years,

defense and electro-technical alarm. The film Boomeria – which could be called a borderline experimental documentary – continues a linguistic mode of investigating a place and its many layers that began in 2007 with the video Black Cross Bowl (2007). Also on the second floor is the previously unseen work Negus (2011>12) takes the form of the first version of an installation that anticipates a new chapter in Invernomuto’s research. Negus

resumes its interest in the reinterpretation of screens and image delivery systems, in which the boundaries between sculpture, installation and cinematic screen device eventually dissolve. A dense and layered work that opens wide to historical facts, cultural ghosts, and political scenarios of the past, condensed into musical and performative rituals of obscure territorial traditions.

Invernomuto was born in 2003 from the union of Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi. Emphasizing the collapse and mixing of languages, the group’s work takes the form of off-format productions such as the editorial project ffwd_mag, research that expands into video production, live-media performance design and curating events and special projects.

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Edited by
Xing

Organizers

Galleries of Modern and Contemporary Art of the City of Ferrara in collaboration with Xing