Patrizia Bonardi. Lives we cannot afford

Headline: Patrizia Bonardi. Lives we cannot afford
Artist: Patrizia Bonardi
Texts: Kevin McManus, Ilaria Bonacina, Manola del Greco
Language: Italian
Release date: 16/12/2017
ISBN: 978-88-6057-388-9
Size: cm 14,8×21
Format: paperback binding
Pages: 64
Price: € 16.00

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Catalog created for exhibitions:

PATRIZIA BONARDI
Lives we cannot afford
a cura on Kevin McManus, Ilaria Bonacina, Manola del Greco
4 November – 16 December 2017
BINS, Via Donizetti, 42 – Leffe (BG) – Italy

PATRIZIA BONARDI
Lives we cannot afford
a cura on Kevin McManus, Ilaria Bonacina, Manola del Greco
9 – 25 March 2018
StudioDieci, Piazzetta Pugliese Levi, 9 – Vercelli – Italy

There are exhibits that seduce like a good book; perhaps difficult to read, but capable of leaving something, at the end of each page, that you invite to read the next page, and so until the end. And there are exhibitions that instead seduce like a mountain panorama, or like a marina immersed in the sun, or like the fire that burns in a fireplace in autumn. Lives we cannot afford, without presumption, he wants to go both ways, maybe at different times, certainly leaving the choice to the user (the seduction, at least in art, it implies the desire to be seduced). But I don't intend to anticipate the conclusions: the seduction of the second type described is evident from the moment you enter the BACS space in Leffe, that immediately immerses us, it embraces us in a large installation made up of individual works, but which nevertheless presents itself as an enveloping “whole”. [based on the text by Kevin McManus]