'THE ICE MONOLITH' Stefano Cagol / PROJECT PLATFORM HOME
THE ARTIST PRESS CHAMBER OF PUBLIC SECRETS MALDIVES PAVILION BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
55TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION - LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
'THE ICE MONOLITH' Stefano Cagol / PROJECT PLATFORM HOME
THE ARTIST PRESS CHAMBER OF PUBLIC SECRETS MALDIVES PAVILION BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
55TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION - LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
* BIENNALE PROGRAM: Biennale Preview on 29 30 31 May, 2013
Stefano Cagol is artist participating in the Maldives Pavilion, 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia with the project THE ICE MONOLITH.
The project develops through a video installation by the Pavilion venue; a 24 hours-performance during the opening days on Riva Cà di Dio from May 29 (documented by a 72 hours video); and a platform involving 34 researchers.
Stefano Cagol è artista partecipante al Padiglione delle Maldive, 55a Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte – la Biennale di Venezia con il progetto THE ICE MONOLITH.
Il progetto si sviluppa attraverso una video installazione presso il Padiglione, una performance di 24 ore durante i giorni di apertura su Riva Cà di Dio dal 29 maggio (documentata da un video di 72 ore), e una piattaforma che ha coinvolto 34 studiosi.
(Italiano Sotto)
What does it ask us? A monolith of ice of the Alps appears in Venice along the shore in Cà di Dio and melts in the summer sun. A kubrickian metaphor questioning about the serious process that is affecting the planet.
Stefano Cagol himself, based in a village in the Alps and just back from projects in the Arctic region, is witnessing the ongoing vanishing of the so called "eternal ice." Ice melts to water. The water of the monolith dissolving to the lagoon joins then billions and billions of gallons of water that in the next decades risk to overwhelm the most sensitive areas of the globe. The Maldives is one of the first, but also Venice. Alps and Maldives, ice and sun, so far but so close, connected by the same fate.
THE ICE MONOLITH is a few hours action during the opening. An act of aesthetic and emotional impact addressed to a wide audience, to attract attention and trigger reflection. A metaphor, a disappearance. Then this action will continue to be revealed to the public also through a video documentation on view by the Pavilion and stretching the process of disappearing for the six months of the Biennale.
Furthermore in the video installation THE ICE MONOLITH. Fade high mountains emerge from water – or disappear into it.
Dilemmas, answers, resources, attempts, strategies, utopias are faced also in a Platform that completes the project involving a wide circle of players – since Sanskrit name of Maldives Mālā-dvīpa literally means garland of islands. Curators, writers, researchers from all continents and from Maldives are interviewd by the artist asking them to answer to dilemmas triggered by THE ICE MONOLITH.
MALDIVES PAVILION . June 1st - Nov 24th, 2013 curated by CPS – Chamber of Public Secrets [Alfredo Cramerotti, Aida Eltorie, Khaled Ramadan]
c/o Gervasuti Foundation . via Garibaldi, Fondamenta Sant'Ana, Castello 995 Venezia Hours 11 am - 7 pm. Closed on Mondays