Venti di ottobre 2024 | VISIONE – Fondazione Bassiri

Venti di ottobre 2024 | VISIONE
Third Annual Event

 

Sunday, October 20th, 2024 | Fondazione Bassiri, Fabro

For more information and reservations: info@fondazionebassiri.com – +39 348 5154674

On Sunday, October 20th, 2024, the third annual Venti di Ottobre event will take place at the Fondazione Bassiri. This year, the entire day will be dedicated to the theme proposed by artist Bizhan Bassiri: VISIONE.

 

On the occasion of his participation in the 57th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2017), representing his country of origin, Bizhan Bassiri included proposition number 57 of his “Manifesto of Magmatic Thought” (1986-2024), still open to the flow of his intuitions, as an epigraph to the volume collecting the works exhibited at that exhibition: “Tapesh is the heartbeat when emotion prevails over reason and generates vision”.

 

In other parts of his “theoretical manifesto” in previous years, Bassiri had already provided other propositions on this founding outcome of his works – Vision – such as number 50, which states: “The vital hours that anticipate vision last a lifetime,” and number 59: “By observing the darkness within darkness, vision is realized in the flash of remembering the Future.”

 

The repeated reference to this concept, which expresses the essence of the work of art, has led the Foundation to dedicate the annual “Venti di Ottobre” initiative to the theme of VISIONE. It will therefore be the focus of a reflection shared by artists, philosophers, poets, scientists, musicologists, and scholars from other disciplines.

 

Vision is utilized in the speculation of visual, poetic, philosophical, scientific, psychological, anthropological, and even economic, social, and political thought. The poetic and pictorial Visions of William Blake, which Giuseppe Ungaretti’s translations have given us, are an emblematic example, certainly not the only one, but significant for the intensity and breadth of their content.

 

The Fondazione Bassiri aims to promote multidisciplinarity and foster dialogue between the arts and artists. The initiative, designed by artist Bizhan Bassiri and Bruno Corà, president of the Foundation’s Scientific Committee, and coordinated by Aldo Iori, director of FB Editore, Asia Simonetti, events manager, and Mitra Hematpoor, head of the Bassiri Archive, includes a series of moments that will take place throughout the day: a round table with contributions from artists, philosophers, doctors, musicians, historians, and curators, individual presentations, readings, concerts with some world premieres, as well as the presentation of new works in the Caveau and in the spaces of the Foundation.

 

At 10AM, visitors will be able to see: in the Caveau, Bizhan Bassiri’s permanent work TAPESH – The Golden Reserve of Magmatic Thought (2017) enriched by the presence of two large works, Il Nottambulo, presented at the Iranian National Museum in Tehran in 2019, and the world premiere of the audio installation Latitude X-2 by Nicola Sani with live interventions by Daniele Roccato.
In the Studio, the exhibition VISIONI will be set up, featuring six artists in comparison with exemplary works: Carla Accardi, Dadamaino, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Bice Lazzari, Antonio Sanfilippo, and Emilio Vedova, in collaboration with BUILDING, Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo, and Archivio Bice Lazzari di Roma.

 

At 11AM, the day’s proceedings will begin, and after the institutional greetings, there will be presentations on the theme of Vision, coordinated by Aldo Iori, director of FB Editore, with contributions from artist Bizhan Bassiri, Germana Agnetti (psychiatrist and psychologist), Maria Isabella Barone (art historian, Associazione Archivio Bice Lazzari), Paola Bonani (art historian, curator), Roberto Cantagalli (director of the Museum of Art of the City of Ravenna), Giuseppe Cerasa (journalist), Bruno Corà (president of the Foundation’s Scientific Committee, art historian and curator), Costantino D’Orazio (art historian, director of the National Gallery of Umbria), Don Liborio Palmeri (theologian), Gianluca Peluffo (architect), Nicola Sani (composer, artistic director, journalist), Tommaso Trini (art historian, essayist), and Giorgio Verzotti (critic, art curator).

 

After a light lunch at the Foundation, the presentations will continue in the afternoon with an open public debate and will conclude with the presentation of the volume IL DILEMMA, published by FB Editore and edited by Aldo Iori, which contains the proceedings of the 2023 October Winds event with contributions by Bruno Corà, Bizhan Bassiri, Tommaso Trini, Ersilia Vaudo Scarpetta, Stefano Velotti, Elio Pecora, Chiara Parisi, Guelfo Guelfi, Roberto Lambarelli, Francesco Antonioni, Marcello Panni, Nicola Sani, and documentation of the exhibition Michelangelo nello sguardo di Aurelio Amendola, and of the works by Bizhan Bassiri, Shlomo Harush, Remo Salvadori, Sean Shanahan, and Renato Ranaldi, the sound installation by Francesco Antonioni, and the concerts by Paolo Ravaglia Duccio Ceccanti, Erik Bertsch with music by Marcello Panni, Nicola Sani, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, and Marco Stroppa.

 

The event will conclude at 5PM. with a concert by Ludus Gravis, a double bass ensemble directed by Daniele Roccato.