Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters

Castello di Rivoli is pleased to announce that the Head and Curator of its CRRI Research Institute, Andrea Viliani, has been appointed Curator of the Pompeii Commitment. Materie Archeologiche / Archaeological Matters project which involves the encounter between archaeological material on the one hand and contemporary artistic research and innovation on the other, with particular attention to the development and promotion of contemporary Italian art.The project is directed by Prof. Massimo Osanna, General Director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, and curated by Andrea Viliani.

Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters, is based on the study and enhancement of the “archaeological materials” stored in the excavation areas and deposits of Pompeii and is aimed at the progressive establishment of a contemporary art collection for the Archaeological Park of Pompeii.  “Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters unites archeology and contemporaneity,” states Andrea Viliani, “which means seeing archaeological findings in their ever-changing state of conservation while understanding contemporary cultural events and their multiple and contradictory creation of knowledges and imaginaries that do not yet exist. The project connects the testimonies of disasters that have already occurred such as the Volcanic eruption at Pompeii with contemporary risk and recreation scenarios, producing a heritage that can be experienced not only as a legacy of the past but also as an example of regeneration and potentiality. These are not inert objects but “vibrant” materials, creatures “of the mud, not of the sky”, to quote Donna Haraway, they are knowledges and imaginaries alive and at work that can therefore act as a stimulus not only for analysis and presentation of existing heritage, but also for the creation of new scenarios, in a context open to the comparison between generations, origins, fields, and subjects of which our world is inhabited and composed. In this sense we intend to use the word “commitment,” as a perspective that relies on the past to reach the present and from the present to the future, or rather as an invitation to assume an attitude of awareness, commitment, the propositional towards a new epistemic of contemporaneity and urgency that an archaeological site like that of Pompeii continues to transmit to us.” The works produced will be entrusted to archaeological and contemporary art museums starting with Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in 2021.

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