15 February – 15 March 2024, Bulgaria, Sofia, HOSTGALLERY, “Mare Nostrum”, solo exhibition, site specific, multimedia installation
On Thursday, February 15th from 5.00pm to 9.00pm in SOFIA, the capital of Bulgaria, the personal exhibition of the Trentino artist PAOLO VIVIAN, entitled “MARE NOSTRUM”, will be inaugurated at the prestigious HOSTGALLERY. Known for his research in the field of collective memory, identity and their impact on social behavior, this time the artist focuses his interest on the theme of migration and humanitarian socio-cultural problems. “Mare Nostrum” by Vivian, proposes an elegiac symbolic work, dedicated to hope, investigating the concept of the border, through video, sound and photography.
Until March 15th in the spaces of the HOST GALLERY in Sofia, a multimedia installation of two large-scale video projections, ambient sounds and a large photographic installation surrounding it will be on display. Through these three components of the holistic exhibition, Vivian invites the public from the entrance to the gallery "dressed" in blue, to immerse themselves in a hypnotic and mysterious world in search of the secrets of existence and hope.  During the show it will be organized the giuded visits and an artist talk.  Mare Nostrum by Paolo Vivian at HOSTGALLERY, curated by Dora Bulart and it runs until 15 march 2024.

Inauguration: Thursday, February 15, 2024 from 5.00pm to 9.00pm
presentation: Dr. Ivaylo Hristov, curator; the critical text Dora Bulart

HOSTGALLERY
102 “I. E. Geshov” Blv.| 1612 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel. +359 898 690 460 |www.host.gallery | fb/ ig : @hostgallery
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9 February 2024 – Pergine TN, “Il Nodo di Gordio” Foundation, Presentation of the art collection
Friday, February 1, 2024 at 6.00 pm in Pergine TN, via Pennella 4, the inauguration of the mail hall of the "Il Nodo di Gordio" Foundation and the presentation of the foundation's art collection will be held. In the prestigious collection there is a work, a painted wooden panel by Paolo Vivian, entitled "The Door". Vivian's work will be permanently exhibited in the foundation's exhibition hall together with the works of important artists such as Othmar Winkler, Carlo Girardi, Mario Romano Ricci.

Inauguration: Friday, 9 February 2024 at 6.00 pm
Pergine TN, via Pennella 4
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1- 22 February 2024, Pergine TN, Contempo gallery, Metal Kunst 3 Contempo – annual sculpture project, Annual exhibition

From 1 to 22 February in the Aquarium room of the Contempo gallery in Pergine the annual collective exhibition of the artists of the Metal Kunst 3 Contempo sculpture project – Annamaria Gelmi, Simone Turra, Piera Legnaghi and Paolo Vivian.

Inauguration: Thursday, 1 February 2024 at 6.00 pm
Contempo Gallery, hall Acquario,  via Maier 48°, Pergine TN
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29 October - 15 December 2022, Italy, Bergamo, Leffe,  BACS gallery, "Mediterraneo - The risk society", international curatorial project

“Mare Nostrum”, the video installation by Paolo Vivian will be presented at the BACS gallery in Leffe (Bergamo) as a part of the international curatorial project “Mediterraneo - The risk society” - a collective exhibition and sociological reseach , curated by Patrizia Bonardi. The event organized by the “Artists & Sociologits” association is coordinated by the sociologist of the University of Rome, Katiuscia Carna`. The event is under the patronage of the municipality of Leffe (Bergamo) in collaboration with the EST OROBIE Museum circuit, Val Seriana, “The Cinque Terre della Val Gandino” and the association “The vigils against deaths at sea”. Eleven artists from Italy and Australia and nineteen Italian sociologists and art critics dedicate their research to the theme of migration and its socio-cultural humanitarian problems. On the occasion of the exhibition, a volume with critical and sociological texts will be published, illustrated with the works of the exhibition. Vivian's "Mare Nostrum", hosted in Leffe, after the first presentation in Milan at the Visual Container exhibition space, the Dot Box gallery, and after the presentation in the international project of the New York curator Raul Zamudio "The Cure of Folly", at the gallery Contempo, Pergine TN, presents a poetic impression, dedicated to hope, investigating the concept of external/internal boundaries, through video, sound and photography.

The exhibition will be open until 15 December 2022.

Inauguration: October 29th from 4.30pm to 7.30pm
Location : BACS, via Donizetti 42, Leffe (Bergamo)

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4 December 2021 - 20 February 2022, Italy, Pergine Valsugana (Trento), Galleria Contempo,  "Tabula Rasa", personal exhibition

The "Tabula Rasa" exhibition by Paolo Vivian, set up in the spaces of the Galleria Contempo in Pergine Valsugana (Trento) is a sort of "ephemeris" on the valence of models of freedom and social norms during the extraordinary, absurd circumstances caused by the pandemic in past two years. The collection of panels, objects and sculptures is testimony of the search for identity, where the void is no longer an allegory, but takes and establishes its own visible form and its own sublime power. In Vivian's project, curated by Dora Bulart, the philosophical metaphor of tabula rasa is comparable to a personal state of mind and a collective reality during uncertain times, where only the memory and the hope are fertile.
The inauguration will take place on Saturday, 4 December 2021 from 4 to 7 pm The homonymous catalog is published on the occasion of the exhibition with the critical texts in Italian and English. The exhibition runs until February 20, 2022 with opening hours every day from 10 am 12 am and from  3pm to 7 pm;  Saturday from 10 am to 12 am ; Sunday and Monday by appointment, Free admission; booking recommended.

location:  Galleria Contempo, via Tomaso Maier 48a, Pergine Valsugana (TN), 38057, Italy

*Thanks  for support to: Aseptic (Trento), Metalworking (Pergine) and Bandus pizza &grill ( Levico Terme)

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