The Cagol's Manifesta 7 Welcome Tour
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LIGHT DISSOLUTION (of the borders)
Stefano Cagol's official Parallel Event to Manifesta 7
Site-specific installation, Sardagna hill – Trento, Trentino
Produced by Province of Trento.
Visible from the city of Trento, Trentino
Daily, 9.30 pm – 0.30 am. 16 – 19 July, 2008
Meet the artist: 10 pm. Piazza Duomo, Trento. 17 July, 2008
The light draws lines impossible to be held in the hands, as the same the borders between nations and cultures are. From this idea the site-specific installation Light Dissolution (of the borders) moves.
The intervention looks at the geographical, historical and cultural specificity of the territory, through a wider and universal viewpoint. A powerful beam underlines and shatters at the same time the border between the two provinces of Trentino and Süd-Tirol and the two cultures, the German and the Italian ones that are together in this region. They are not only physical borders, but the mental ones, too. Highly imprinted are by people belongings, beliefs and preconceptions that are unveiled as being inconsistent, as light is, both intense and fragile.
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EURASIA. Geographic cross-overs in art
Stefano Cagol is included with the installation FLU GAME
MART. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Rovereto, Trentino
On view from 28 June to 16 November, 2008.
The ambitious Eurasia exhibition arised from an idea by Achille Bonito Oliva, who will be the exhibition's curator, flanked by an international team comprising Lorenzo Benedetti, Iara Boubnova, Cecilia Casorati, Hu Fang, Christiane Rekade and Julia Trolp.
The 7th edition of Manifesta, the itinerant Biennale of contemporary art, will be hosted in 2008 by the Regione Autonoma Trentino-Alto Adige. At the same time, the Mart will present the Eurasia. Geographic cross-overs in art exhibition in the Rovereto site of the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto from 28th June to 16 November 2008.
MANIFESTA 7 will include exhibitions at Fortezza, Bolzano, Trento and Rovereto. Together with the Eurasia exhibition, these events will ensure that northern Italy and our region will be one of the most important venues for a consideration of the contemporary art scene today.
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FREIER VOGEL
Stefano Cagol's installation, Palais Pock, Musterplatz 2, Bozen, Süd-Tirol
It is a 9x2 m banner hanging on the stairs of an ancient palace with frescos.
Realized in 2007 for Prader Bank Collection.
Always on view
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BABYLON GARDEN
Stefano Cagol's permanent installation, Prader Bank Collection, Via Belenzani 25, Trento, Trentino
Became part of the Prader Bank Collection since 2007.
Visiting by appointment: beatrix.baessato@praderbank.com or +39.0461.1977788
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CHESS TME (TIME INFLUENCE)
Stefano Cagol's permanent installation, Parco Mignone, Claudia Augusta Strasse, Bozen, Süd-Tirol
It is an 80 sq m chess platform on black and white marble with double-language words engraved on the surface as the two cultures (Italian and German) 'playing' in this border region.
Realized in 2007 thanks to the City of Bozen and the support of Dalle Nogare Collection.
Always on view
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WHITE FLAG
Stefano Cagol's installation, Monte Finonchio, Calliano, Trentino
Realized in 2006 and 2008 for and by Portobeseno Festival.
Visible from the valley between Trento and Rovereto
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the BRENNER PASS PROJECT
Along the 182 National Road, Brenner Pass Border, Austria
Always on view, and on the cover by Stefano Cagol of 'Exibart' magazine, Manifesta issue, July 2008
THE BASE [ http://www.stefanocagol.com ]
