Institutions, Venice
Group Exhibition
Intuition
Museo FortunyMarina Abramović, Hilma af Klint, Vincenzo Agnetti, Pierre Alechinsky, Alis/Filliol, William Anastasi, Beato Angelico, El Anatsui, Karel Appel, Jean Arp, Giacomo Balla, Ida Barbarigo, Afro Basaldella, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Beck, Joseph Beuys, Umberto Boccioni, Alighiero Boetti, Michaël Borremans, Georges Braque, Victor Brauner, André Breton, Marcel Broodthaers, Lucia Bru, Alberto Burri, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Guido Cadorin, Alexander Calder, Francesco Candeloro, Antonio Canova, Mireille Capelle, Vincenzo Castella, Chung Chang-Sup, Eduardo Chillida, Gustave Courbet, Giulio D’Alessio, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Giorgio de Chirico, Thierry De Cordier, Willem de Kooning, Jean Degottex, Marco Del Re, Marta Dell’Angelo, Gilles Delmas, Mario Deluigi, André Derain, Gaspare Diziani, Oscar Dominguez, Maurizio Donzelli, Claudine Drai, Marcel Duchamp, James Ensor, Max Ernst, Bruna Esposito, Cleo Fariselli, François Fiedler, Lucio Fontana, Francesco Fontebasso, Jean-Louis Forain, Mariano Fortuny, Henri Foucault, Galileo Galilei, Pinot Gallizio, Alberto Garutti, Isa Genzken, Alberto Giacometti, Giovanni Giaretta, Gioberto Noro, Raimund Girke, Natalia Goncharova, Arshile Gorky, Antony Gormley, Gotthard Graubner, Aldo Grazzi, Ezio Gribaudo, Franco Guerzoni, Barbara Hammer, Hans Hartung, Sadaharu Horio, Yasmine Hugonnet, Norio Imai, Yu-ichi Inoue, Damien Jalet, Ann Veronica Janssens, Paul Jenkins, Asger Jorn, Wassily Kandinsky, Anish Kapoor, Ellsworth Kelly, Jan Kersschot, Kimsooja, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Susan Kleinberg, Ivan Kliun, Mikhail Larionov, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Fernand Léger, Leoncillo Leonardi, Renato Leotta, Stephen Lichty, Osvaldo Licini, Marcos Lutyens, Heinz Mack, Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Man Ray, Piero Manzoni, Étienne-Jules Marey, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Alberto Martini, Nicola Martini, Arturo Martini, Masatoshi Masanobu, André Masson, Roberto Matta, Mikhail Matyushin, Elena Mazzi, Fausto Melotti, Ana Mendieta, Duane Michals, Henri Michaux, Joan Miro´, François Morellet, Robert Morris, Susan Morris, Sadamasa Motonaga, Michel Mouffe, Sofie Muller, Matt Mullican, Edvard Munch, Zoran Mušicˇ, Kinuku Naito, Yuko Nasaka, Senkichiro Nasaka, Matteo Nasini, Max Neumann, Jaromír Novotný, Kimiko Ohara, Giancarlo Pancaldi, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Otto Piene, Gaetano Previati, Raku Kichizaemon XV, Masaomi Raku, Kurt Ralske, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Odilon Redon, Gerhard Richter, Bernardí Roig, Medardo Rosso, Piero Ruggeri, Tomás Saraceno, Mariano Sardon and Mariano Sigman, Angelo Savelli, Markus Schinwald, Park Seo-Bo, Shozo Shimamoto, Kazuo Shiraga, Elisa Sighicelli, Pierre Soulages, Léon Spilliaert, Saul Steinberg, Jana Sterbak, Dominique Stroobant, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Takis, Ryuji Tanaka, Tancredi, Antoni Tàpies, Livia Tivoli, Mark Tobey, Cy Twombly, Raoul Ubac, Günther Uecker, Umbo, Koen Van den Broek, Emilio Vedova, Angel Vergara, Jef Verheyen, Giorgio Vigna, Emilio Villa, Gil Joseph Wolman, Rik Wouters, Michio Yoshihara, Jiro Yoshihara, Yun Hyong-Keun, and many anonymous artists Intuition, from the Latin intueor, is a form of knowledge that cannot be explained in words. It reveals itself in sudden flashes, images, sounds and experiences. Therefore an exhibition that intends to explore the theme of intuition is bound to begin from humanity’s first attempts to forge an immediate relationship between heaven and earth: from the erection of totems, to shamanism and mystical ecstasy, from examples of epiphanic moments in religious iconography, such as the Annunciation, Visitation and Pentecost, to the potential for divine revelation through dreams. From there, the field of investigation moves towards modernity: in the nineteenth century the themes of spirituality, dreams, mysticism, and the “panic” force in nature saw new developments and, at the dawn of the next century, played a decisive role in the birth of abstractionism, with the work of Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Hilma af Klint. Ethnic art brought new forms and energies, and it, too, had a strong influence on the development of new artistic languages. The exhibition pays special attention to the most experimental aspects of Surrealism: writing and automatic drawing, collective creation and altered states of the ego. Experimentation in art continued and was developed through the work of various movements: Gutai, Zero, Spatialism, Cobra, Fluxus and American Abstract Expressionism. In addition, numerous other artists from the 1960s to the present day have returned to and amplified the Surrealist interest in automatism, achieving new formal and technical developments. Ample space is also dedicated to contemporary forms of artistic expression:young artists’ performances linked to dreams, telepathy, the mind-body relationship, and installations that involve visitors empathetically. Co-produced with Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation Curated by Daniela Ferretti e Axel Vervoordt Co-curated by Dario Dalla Lana, Davide Daninos and Anne-Sophie Dusselier