South likes: Annette Amberg at Istituto Svizzero, Rome

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Annette Amberg, Una questione privata, installation shot during the opening, 2014, Istituto Svizzero of Rome. Photo: OKNO Studio

South likes: Annette Amberg at Istituto Svizzero, Rome
Una questione privata
Istituto Svizzero, Rome, Italy
13 June – 11 September, 2014

Text by Michelangelo Corsaro

What is the function of cultural institutions? What kind of place are they? Invited to investigate these questions in the Swiss Institute of Rome, the Swiss artist Annette Amberg has carried out a peculiar research that is not limited to the physical space of the building. Amberg’s research questions the nature of cultural institutions taking into account the intertwined alternation of historical present, institutional drives and personal stories. As a part of the show takes place in the outdoor area of villa Maraini, inside the venue, Amberg’s works interrogate the mélange of public and private, a dichotomy that creates a puzzling ambivalence in the exploration and the awareness of a territory. And yet the ambiguities related to the subjective experience of a place are not exhausted by the polarisation of public/private. The artist installed a wooden sphere made in the XVII century: it is not clear if this unfinished globe served to represent the earth or the sky, introducing the sense of ambiguity between mundane power and celestial knowledge. The physicist Franco Piperno lead an observation of the night sky organised for the opening night. The show is the result of the relationship that the artist entertained with the institution, which at the same time is itself the object of the artist’s research.

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Annette Amberg, Una questione privata, installation shot during the opening, 2014, Istituto Svizzero of Rome. Photo: OKNO Studio

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Annette Amberg, Una questione privata, installation shot during the opening, 2014, Istituto Svizzero of Rome. Photo: OKNO Studio

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Annette Amberg, Una questione privata, installation shot during the opening, 2014, Istituto Svizzero of Rome. Photo: OKNO Studio

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Annette Amberg, Una questione privata, installation shot during the opening, 2014, Istituto Svizzero of Rome. Photo: OKNO Studio

 

 

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