Tomaso Binga. Euforia
Book launch
With Tomaso Binga, Eva Fabbris, Luca Lo Pinto, Angela Tecce, Lilou Vidal, Stefania Zuliani
#Agora
Tomaso Binga. Euforia, cover of the volume
On Thursday, 5 December, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome will host the presentation of Tomaso Binga. Euforia, the monograph published by Lenz Press that explores the extensive artistic work of Tomaso Binga. The event will feature the participation of the artist, Tomaso Binga, along with curators Eva Fabbris, Director of the Madre Museum in Naples, Lilou Vidal, curator and editor, Artistic and Scientific Director of the Gribaudo Archive in Turin, Stefania Zuliani, art historian and critic from the University of Salerno, Luca Lo Pinto, Artistic Director of MACRO and author of the interview-essay included in the volume, and Angela Tecce, President of the Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee in Naples.
Embedded in the language of visual and sound poetry, the practice of Tomaso Binga (Bianca Pucciarelli Menna, born in Salerno in 1931) is based on an ironic, insightful questioning of the idea of gender: not only a generator of identity, but also a way of looking afresh at the social roles, rights and opportunities traditionally available to women. This monograph edited by Eva Fabbris, Lilou Vidal and Stefania Zuliani, explores her work through a specific lexicon (Agora, Biographies, the Corporeal Nature of the Word, Correspondences, Geographies, Vaginal Value), and also features a selection of unpublished poems by the artist.
The project is realized with the support of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture as part of the Italian Council program (2023).
EVA FABBRIS (1979), art historian and curator, is the Director of MADRE, the Donnaregina Museum of Contemporary Art of Naples, since 2023. With a doctorate in Social Studies, she has worked in the curatorial departments of Fondazione Prada, Milan (2016-23); Galleria Civica, Trento (2009); Museion, Bolzano (2008-09). As an independent curator she has organized exhibitions in Italian and European institutions, including: MADRE Donnaregina Museum of Contemporary Art, Naples; Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan; Chiostri di Sant’Eustorgio, Milan; Triennale Milano; Fondazione Morra, Naples; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; Galerie de l’Erg, Brussels. She teaches at NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, and as a visiting professor she has held lectures and conversations in various institutions, including Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Daimler Foundation, Berlin; HEAD, Haute école d’art et de design, Geneva; KHiO, Oslo National Academy of the Arts; GAM, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Turin; and many Italian universities. She has worked with many contemporary art magazines including Mousse Magazine, Cura and Flash Art. She has edited monographs on artists, including Tomaso Binga (Lenz, 2024), Diego Marcon (Lenz, 2021), Alessandro Pessoli (Lenz, 2021), Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi (Humboldt Books, 2017) and Paul Sietsema (Mousse Publishing, 2016). As Director of the MADRE Museum she has curated the exhibitions “Kazuko Miyamoto”, “Il Resto di niente”, and is about to present “Gli Anni” and “Tomaso Binga. Euforia,” the first retrospective on this artist.
LILOU VIDAL is a curator and editor who lives and works in Turin. She has curated many solo and group exhibitions in museums, institutions and galleries, including Museion, Bolzano (2024); Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2023); Galerias Municipais, Lisbon (2022); Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris (2021); MuZee, Ostend (2019); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2018), among others. She is a guest curator at Villa Medici in Rome for 2024-25, with a focus on grant recipients. She has founded and directed the non-profit organization Bureau des Réalités in Brussels, whose program focused in language, poetry and its embodied manifestations (2014-2019). She has edited various books and monographs, and collaborates on a regular basis with publishers and magazines such as Lenz Press, Axis Axis, Paraguay Press, Sternberg Press, Nero, and Mousse. She frequently takes part in conferences and juries, including the Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou International Prize for Literature (2024). In 2024, together with Cally Spooner, she co-founded UNA SCUOLA AL CASTELLO DI RIVOLI, a new space for post-graduate studies in art at Castello di Rivoli Contemporary Art Museum. She is the Artistic Director in charge of research at Archivio Gribaudo in Turin.
STEFANIA ZULIANI (1968) is a full professor of Theory of Art Criticism and Theory of Museums and Exhibitions in the contemporary era at the University of Salerno. From 2018 to 2024 she has been a member of the committee of experts of the Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna in Rome. She is presently the Artistic Director of Fondazione Filiberto e Bianca Menna in Salerno. Heedful of the various voices involved in contemporary critical debate, she focuses above all on analysis of the dynamics of the Global Art World, paying particular attention to the relations between the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century connecting artistic and critical production to the system of exhibitions and museums. On these themes she has published many essays and monographs, most recently including “Senza cornice. Spazi e tempi dell’istallazione” (Rome 2015) and “Torna diverso. Una galleria di musei” (Pistoia 2022). She has curated exhibitions and conferences for public institutions and universities, and she collaborates for art criticism with Alias, the supplement of the newspaper Il Manifesto.
The event will take place in the auditorium.
Free admission until capacity is reached.
The volume will be available at the bookshop.
The event is organised in collaboration with Museo MADRE.