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Pure and almost inaccessible white is the effect of the salt mountain, which the Dutch artist Patricia Kaersenhout has crammed into the largest room of the Fora Palazzo Seta. Salt is to take away. Visitors can pour a ladle into one of the plastic bags.
This symbolic act is intended to commemorate slaves in the Caribbean, who have given up salting their food. They hoped that they would lose weight in this way and could return to Africa more easily ("Flying Africans"). The hope, as can be said with a cynicism shaped to contemporary refugee politics, also died at that time.
Abandoned Palaces and Churches
"The Soul salt "is one of the main works. an exhibition that extends its followers throughout the Sicilian metropolis of Palermo, which today has 700,000 inhabitants. The show takes place almost exclusively in palaces and churches long abandoned and half ruined. It stands under the star of Manifesta, an itinerant Biennial of Amsterdam, which selects a different city every two years for which it intends to engage artistically.
Two years ago, Manifesta sent Commissioner Christian Jankowski to Zurich, a huge, sprawling exhibition across the city, but in a way, meaningless. In Palermo, however, the exhibition, which was created in close collaboration with artists from the city, now falls to the heart of a structurally neglected city that has been subjugated by the mafia for decades.
In the Arab Quarter
Beautiful: One of the great strengths of this biennial is limited: about forty artists from around the world were engaged by a team of curators, including Bregtje van der Haak, Andrés Jaque, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli and Mirjam Varadinis, curator at the Kunsthaus Zürich.
Most of Manifesta's art sites are located in the former Arab quarter of Kala. It was built as part of the wall of the medieval city and has now been orphaned for decades. The plaster is flaking walls. The stucco is partly on the ground. And the lobby walls, where the Salzberg Kaersenhout is located, are covered with strikingly blue-red-green mosaics, which however require urgent renovation.
Ornaments are among the architectural treasures that are attributed to Palermo's Norman-Arab-Byzantine style, as it was created after the conquest of the island by the Normans in the eleventh century. This stylistic syncretism, which dates back to the Middle Ages, reveals a fundamental schema of the palermic history: it can be understood as a junction of migratory flows, which have all left their cultural traces.
The mafia terrorize the city
Today, Palermo has large populations from China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Somalia and Nigeria. They live in the mafia suburbs, which were built in the north, west and south of the city. The mafia not only seized lucrative construction contracts, but also corrupted all public and private relations and terrorized the city. Overexploited neighborhoods quickly turned into residential ghettos, which in turn massively produced social problems
For example, in Zona Espansione Nord, abbreviated as ZEN. This neighborhood has become a dystopian place full of social tensions and violence. On behalf of Manifesta, French landscape architect Gilles Clément and his neighbors have built a garden where locals can meet, cultivate and develop the garden.
For Leoluca Orlando, the long-time mayor of Palermo, the fight against the Mafia is at the center of his policy. The literary lawyer has pushed organized crime back into years of patient work, which he has succeeded, among other things, in strengthening art and culture.
The opening of the Palermer becomes a programmatic model for the organizers of the exhibition
The attitude of Orlando towards the migration is characterized by a surprising liberality. In his preface to the Manifesta exhibition guide, he writes: "Here in Palermo – it's our irrevocable opinion – there are no migrants. Those who arrive in the city are Palermer. The Declaration
Orlando developed a vision of the coexistence of people in his city, consistent with the cultural and political intentions of the people Manifesta and his team of commissioners That developed the vision of a "planetary garden" as a complete metaphor for the power of integration of this city. The idea is rooted not only in a "Veduta di Palermo" of the Italian director Francesco Lojacono, but also in the botanical garden of the city, extremely rich in species, unfortunately a little neglected.
Lojacono glanced at the city in 1875 in his famous painting. It was then surrounded by the legendary Conca d'Oro (gold basin), an agricultural area that was full of orange groves in the 19th century and is now an ugly settlement colony. At the forefront of painting, the artist, who painted precisely after nature, captured the trees that were imported to Sicily from all over the world. The opening of the Palermer for foreigners and others, which manifested nearly 150 years ago in the field of plants, becomes a programmatic model for the organizers of the exhibition.
Zucchetti Migrating
Leone Contini from Florence has blossomed in the botanical garden of a garden plant with zucchini plants from around the world. By definition, plant seeds are migrants that carry genetic information from one place to another, explains Mr. Contini. Conceptually, the Manifesta, surprisingly diverse and intelligent, can be divided into three parts: Under the title "Out of Control Room", works illustrate power structures that escape bourgeois control. The Salzberg is as much a part of this work as the excellent film directed by Laura Poitras, an Oscar winner, on an antenna station for the US drone war, in the middle of the summer. a nature reserve in Sicily.
Under the title "Garden of Flows", second, work is subsumed to thematize migratory flows of plants and humans. The third group is called "City on Stage". He puts the neglected city in the center. During the Manifesta, you can visit the Baroque Costantino Palazzo, a world-class architectural work of art.
The Palazzo is in a ruinous state. It is one of the many architectural monuments of Palermo, which are registered by the Manifesta and clearly indicate what huge opportunities in the buildings of the old city are dormant. Palermo comes to you when visiting this exhibition as a frog who wants to be woken up. If Manifesta is a way, then Leoluca Orlando realized what he wanted.
A 4.11., Manifesta.org
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Created: 23.07.2018, 18:26
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