AMARCORD Fragments of Memory from the Historical Archives of la Biennale. Exhibition from the collections of ASAC – Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts of la Biennale di Venezia

AMARCORD. Fragments of Memory from the Historical Archives of la Biennale, the new exhibition in collaboration with ASAC (Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts), organized by la Biennale di Venezia and curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Visual Art Department.

AMARCORD enforce a programme of temporary exhibitions that draw from la Biennale’s Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts. On this occasion, fragments of the history of the Biennale di Venezia have been brought to light by the curator, who stumbled across this material and selected historical documents with the eye of a collector and enthusiast.

Following a timeline that runs from 1895 to 1999, the selection does not claim to exhaust the long and complex history of the institution but simply recounts several episodes on the life, the organization and the participation of artists and curators in the International Art Exhibition.

Associations, images and memories can be seen in a lively collection of, telegrams, loans forms, newspaper articles, photographs and artists’ hand-written letters all of which are displayed with the freshness of trouvailles, giving the impression of a history that could have been found only by accident. In short, the exhibition is about amarcord (remembering) and was conceived as a way of preventing the archives from becoming a vault: to make it a friendly place that piques the curiosity of visitors, and demonstrate that its value and importance extends beyond its appeal to scholars and historians.

The exhibition is also enriched by drawings, prints, photographs and posters commissioned by la Biennale and donated by artists, some of which were created by Augusto Sezanne, Alexander Archipenko, Carlo Carrà, Georges Braque, Jean Fautrier, Osvaldo Licini, Jacques Villon, Giorgio Morandi, Hans Hartung, Carlo Scarpa, Alberto Biasi, Man Ray, Sol LeWitt and Ado Hamelrijck, among others.

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