Fondazione Antonio Ratti presents, from November 29 to December 20, 2007 in Milan, the group exhibition Invisible Miracles, the visible result of the Corso Superiore di Arti Visive of FAR – directed by Annie Ratti – held this summer in Como by Joan Jonas, the American artist known for her performances and for her experimentation with video, installations, and drawing.

The exhibition, curated by Anna Daneri and Roberto Pinto, is sponsored by the Assessorato allo Sport e al Tempo libero of Milan and realized in collaboration with the associations Careof, Viafarini, and Neon fdv with the support of Artegiovane Milano.

Invisible Miracles brings together twenty works created specifically for the occasion by the artists Michele Bazzana (I), Jacopo Candotti (I), Martina Della Valle (I), Line Ellegaard (Denmark), Alicia Frankovich (Australia/New Zealand), Daniele Genadry (Lebanon), Yuki Higashino (Japan), Invernomuto (I), Jamie Macchiusi (Australia), Jacopo Miliani (I), Primoz Novak & Nika Oblak (Slovenia), Helena O'Connor (Ireland), Luigi Presicce (I), Moira Ricci (I), Anna Rispoli (I), Shoggoth (I), Ryan Siegan Smith (UK), Alberto Tadiello (I), Johanna Torkkola (Sweden)

The exhibition is set up in four different venues: the Fabbrica del Vapore of the Municipality of Milan, Neon fdv, one of the most interesting Italian research galleries, and Careof and Viafarini, the two Milanese non-profit spaces with which FAR has had a decade-long collaboration, since the first CSAV exhibition in 1997, and with whom it shares the goal of promoting young Italian art.

During the opening, three of the exhibited works will be awarded the Premio Epson FAR per la ricerca artistica, which will be assigned by a jury composed of Carla Conca, Business Manager Video Projectors at Epson Italia, James Lingwood (member of FAR’s scientific committee and director of Artangel, London), and Adam Budak (curator at Kunsthaus Graz, Austria and of Manifesta 2008, Bolzano). The Prize, now in its second edition, was established thanks to the contribution of Epson Italia, which chose to support the participating young artists by awarding the works that show the greatest interest in terms of visual experimentation.

The exhibition will offer a unique opportunity to see installations, drawings, performances, videos, and photographs conceived and developed following this year’s course experience, during which the 20 young international artists explored together with Joan Jonas, over the course of three weeks, the possibilities of their own movement in space, the creation of sounds with found objects, the making of collective drawings, and impromptu performances. All of this was carried out with a particular sensitivity to everything hidden and miraculous—yet entirely ordinary—that permeates our lives, our memory, and our history. “I enjoy the moments when we are all moving together,” Jonas said about the course, and it is no coincidence that the artist involved her students in the creation of the performance The Hand Reverts to its Own Movement…, presented on July 19 at Spazio San Francesco in Como.

A bilingual publication, curated by MOUSSE, will be dedicated to the Milan exhibition and the workshop experience (72 pages, with critical texts and color images). After the ongoing retrospective at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, a solo exhibition of Jonas will also be held at the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, co-produced with the Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como and curated by Anna Daneri, Cristina Natalicchio, and Roberto Pinto.

The exhibition, which will take place from November 24 to March 2, 2008, is titled Joan Jonas: My Theater and will present an unpublished installation derived from the Como performance, the My New Theatre series, historic videos, and a second installation from the Mirror Pieces series. A bilingual catalog will be published by Charta.

A special thanks to Minitransport for the exhibition transportation.