curated by Sara Benaglia and Mauro Zanchi

Artists:
Candice Breitz | Daniela Comani | Keren Cytter | Jenne Dunning | Latifa Echakhch | Sylvie Fleury |
Dominique Gondalez Foerster | Francesca Grilli | Mona Hatoum | Jenny Holzer | Rebecca Horn | Adelita
Husni-Bey | Ketty La Rocca | Zoe Leonard | Tracey Moffatt | Liliana Moro | Carol Rama | Kiki Smith |
Georgina Starr | Rosemarie Trockel | Dana Wise

curated by Enrico De Pascale

In conjunction with The Blank Benefit, Spazio ALT hosts ROSE WINDOWS, an exhibition dedicated to the works of Richard Beretta curated by Stefano Raimondi.
There will be a selection of works from the series “Rose Windows”.

curated by Marco Fioretti

Artists: ANDY, IVANO BERLENDIS, NIKI COOPER, CACCIA/BACTER, MR SAVETHEWALL, TIZIANO SORO, EMANUELE SCILLERI

The Blank has realized the catalogue THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART VOL.1, published in occasion of the first seven years of the network’s activities.

The volume documents, through texts and pictures, all the realized projects and the activities developed by the members of The Blank network, testifying the cultural ferment that has characterized Bergamo.

A section is dedicated to the statements of friends, artists, collectors, curators and critics The Blank has had the pleasure to collaborate during these last years.

Thirteen artists have contributed to the realization of as many copies, made as unique thanks to a dedicated intervention:

Apparatus 22, Salvatore Arancio, Dario Bitto, Gabriele De Santis, Oscar Giaconia, May Hands, Israel Lund, Diego Marcon, Andrea Mastrovito, Francesco Pedrini, Erik Saglia, Giuseppe Stampone, Josh Tonsfeldt.

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For this occasion The Blank has constituted itself as an independent publishing house, founding the label TB Editions.

More Art is working with Brooklyn-based Italian-born artist Andrea Mastrovito to create NYsferatu, an ambitious public art project that combines film, music, and community engagement to create a powerful and poignant statement about immigrant rights in today’s world. Taking the first step in this lengthy process, Mastrovito and a team of artists, will hand animate Friedrich W. Murnau’s seminal 1922 film Nosferatu, itself an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s story, Dracula.

Using the technique of rotoscoping, each character, gesture, and expression will be redrawn in the original film’s classic style while the background of contemporary New York City will bring the film to the current moment. Each recreated background will be drawn 3 times in order to replicate the beautifully eerie flickering shutter effect of early cinema. In all, the artist will make over 35,000 original drawings to create this feature length hand-animated film.

With key organizational partners, More Art and Mastrovito will arrange hands-on workshops in which English as Second Language Learners can discuss the film and its implications. The workshops will culminate with participants rewriting the silent film’s title cards to reflect their respective community’s experience of overcoming obstacles of xenophobia and racism to make their home in a new city. In so doing the participants change the very meaning of the film as well as its ending.

curated by Paola Silvia Ubiali
Presented by Claudio Cerritelli

curated by Alexandra Russi