When attitudes become forms reloaded in Venice by Fondazione Prada

 

Thanks to the Prada Foundation, the seminal show curated by Harald Szeemann in 1969 (Live in your head: when attitudes become forms. Works–Concepts–Processes–Situations–Information) has been meticulously reproduced at Ca’ Corner della Regina, in Venice. Even the Kunsthalle Bern’s original floor plan has been recreated, and inserted into the structure of the eighteen-century venetian building. Now the distance between the two buildings – and between the two exhibitions – seems to be totally conceptual. Moreover, this unusual experiment could also be read as the first practical application of “Remainder”, a novel written in 2006 by Tom McCarthy and based on the same idea of reproduction. That is, according to McCarthy, a way to recover a memory loss. A message to the present time.

July 14, 2015