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Play

CURATED BY
Lelio Aiello, Cecilia Casorati, Donatella Landi e Luca ValerioOPERE DI
Michael Fliri, Monika Stemmer, Simone Barresi, Mauro Sampaolesi, Ercole Coruzzi, Enrico Moretti, Francesca Cogni, Santo Matteo, Nicola Uzunovski, Mariana Ferratto, Valentina Noferini, Sweety, Felipe Aquila, Michela Pozzi, Prisca Rinaldi Marco, Marco Donnarumma.

Video works from the Academies of Fine Arts in Bologna, Carrara, L’Aquila, Milan, Naples, Rome, Turin, Urbino, and Venice

In a socio-cultural landscape increasingly shaped by technology—where television, cinema, photography, and computers dominate the contemporary visual heritage—the use of video, now accessible to all, has become a tool for the appropriation of images. Thanks to its mobility and immediacy, it continues to captivate artists more and more.

The annual video screening Play is part of the work in project, which is specifically dedicated to the research of young and emerging artists. It serves as a survey carried out in Italian Higher Education Schools of Art, where interest in this medium is steadily growing.

This year's edition has been curated by Lelio Aiello, Cecilia Casorati, Donatella Landi, and Luca Valerio. For the selection of works, critics, curators, and artists actively involved in the Italian Fine Arts Academies were invited to contribute their expertise by nominating one or two of the most promising young talents who completed their studies no more than two years ago.

Artists and video selected

Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna
Selection curated by Roberto Daolio
Michael Fliri, Monika Stemmer

Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara
Selection curated by Guido Molinari
Simone Barresi, Mauro Sampaolesi

Academy of Fine Arts of L’Aquila
Selection curated by Enrico Sconci
Ercole Coruzzi, Enrico Moretti

Academy of Fine Arts of Milan
Selection curated by Luca Beatrice
Francesca Cogni, Santo Matteo

Academy of Fine Arts of Naples
Selection curated by Marco Altavilla
Nicola Uzunovski

Academy of Fine Arts of Rome
Selection curated by Donatella Landi and Luca Valerio
Mariana Ferratto, Valentina Noferini

Academy of Fine Arts of Turin
Selection curated by Guido Curto
Sweety, Felipe Aquila

Academy of Fine Arts of Urbino
Selection curated by Giovanni Surace
Michela Pozzi, Prisca Rinaldi Marco

Academy of Fine Arts of Venice
Selection curated by Mauro Arrighi
Marco Donnarumma