Endless Summer

Endless summer-manifesto

At the Magazzino del Sale in Cervia Endless Summer, a group exhibition of contemporary art organised by MAGMA.

Endless Summer is inspired by light, by the suspension of summer, and is rooted in a suspended temporality, evoking summer as a mental condition even before the weather, as an experience in which intensity is mixed with fleetingness.

The project takes its name from the documentary ‘The Endless Summer’, directed by Bruce Brown and released in 1966. In cinema, surfing, pop culture and collective narratives, summer is often represented as a mythical time, a time outside of time, a place where desire and nostalgia merge. The exhibition evokes precisely this paradox, the idea of a summer that never ends, that extends beyond its own duration and reveals itself for what it really is: an impossible dream, a glow that endures despite knowing it is destined to fade.

The exhibition is an invitation to experience it as one experiences summer: with the awareness that everything is intensely present, yet already fading away.

Artistic Direction: Viola Emaldi, Alex Montanaro.

Curators: Vittoria Caprotti, Viola Cenacchi, Rossella Farinotti, Davide Giannella, Gioele Melandri, Ornella Paglialonga, Giovanni Rendina, Valentina Rossi.

Artiste e artisti: Yuri Ancarani, Thomas Berra, Thomas Braida, Ermanno Brosio, Martina Bruni, Michele Bubacco, Jacopo Casadei, David Casini, Francesco Cavaliere, Goldschmied & Chiari, Adelaide Cioni, Gio-vanni Copelli, Lucia Cristiani, Rudy Cremonini, Giovanni De Francesco, Roberto DePinto, Jeremy Deller, Ettore Favini, Roberto Fassone, Oliviero Fiorenzi, Christian Holstad, Mino Luchena, Lorenzo Mason, Jo-nathan Monk, Davide Monaldi, Luca Nostri, Ornaghi & Prestinari, Bruno Peinado, Alessandro Pessoli, Marta Pierobon, Leonardo Pivi, Aronne Pleuteri, Luigi Presicce, Andrea Renzini, Salvo, Pierluigi Scan-diuzzi, Mario Schifano, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Thea Vallé, Vedovamazzei, Flaminia Veronesi, Carlo Zauli.

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