DIALOGOS
A negotiating artistic practice curated by Alessandro Castiglioni and Ermanno Cristini
since 2010
Dialogos è un progetto espositivo disposto tra dinamica performativa e intervento installativo.
Nasce dalla possibilità di pensare lo spazio come una formula di tempo, cioè un quando prima che un dove, nel momento in cui esso viene negoziato e trasformato da una relazione. Il dialogo si
pone dunque come pratica estetica poiché esso stesso è l’elemento che modula e struttura un tempo e poi uno spazio.
Dialogos è dunque una sorta di partita a scacchi. Dove però l’operazione artistica e la sua traccia, l’oggetto, si caricano di una comunicabilità reversibile, tra artista e artista, artista e
opera, opera e spazio, spazio e spettatore, spettatore e spazio, spazio e opera, opera e artista, artista e artista.
Le tracce visibili di questo scambio, i resti, gli oggetti in mostra, sono solo l’immagine falsata di una pratica distante nel tempo. Del dialogo stesso non vi sono documenti, poiché, citando
ancora Platone, è tra le pieghe dell’irripetibilità del detto, che si nasconde la possibilità di conoscere.
Alessandro Castiglioni
DIALOGOS is focusing on the chance to develop an artistic practice based on continuously negotiating knowledge, choices and consciousness, it has led to an experience that has flourished
between artists who were ‘chosen’ for reasons of coincidence, elective affinities or interfacing trajectories in their manners of making.
Dialogos is a project of an exhibition arranged between a performative dynamics and an installation’s intervention. It was born from the possibility of thinking about the space as a time’s
formula, or to put it better, the “when” before the “where”, the very moment when it has been discussed and transformed by a relation. Therefore, the dialogue is intended an aesthetic practice,
because itself is the element that modulates and structures a time and, then, a space.
Dialogos is, therefore, kind of a chess game. But, where the artistic act and its trace, the object, burden themselves with a reversible communicability, between artist and artist, artist and
artwork, artwork and space, space and spectator, spectator and space, space and artwork, artwork and artist, artist and artist.
The visible traces of this exchange, the remains, the exhibited objects, are only the distorted image of a practice far away in the time. There are not documents about the dialogue itself,
as, quoting Plato again, this is among the folds of the unrepeatability of the saying that the possibility of the knowledge hides itself.
Alessandro Castiglioni
DIALOGOS PART SEVEN
https://dialogosart.jimdofree.com/dialogos-vii/
Octobebr 2023
Superotium, Naples,
Gianluca Codeghini, collettivo damp, Ermanno Cristini, Simona Da Pozzo, Jacopo Natoli, Giancarlo Norese, Luca Scarabelli, Luisa Turuani, Marco Vitale. Bianco e Valente
Curated by collettivo damp, Ermanno Cristini
DIALOGOS PART SIX
https://dialogosart.jimdofree.com/dialogos-vi/
June 2022
Kuona Artists' Collective, Nairobi, (KE)
Umberto Cavenago, Onyis Martin, Longinos Nagila, Giancarlo Norese, Beatrice Polato, David Thuku, Luisa Turuani in residence, and Cesare Biratoni, Sergio Breviario, Giuseppe Buffoli, Ermanno Cristini, Alessandro Rolandi, Luca Scarabelli in remote.
With the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Nairobi
DIALOGOS PART FIVE
https://dialogosart.jimdofree.com/dialogos-v
September 2021
gepard14, Liebefeld, Bern
Roberto de Luca, Marco Giacomoni, Olivia Notaro, Ermanno Cristini, Giancarlo Norese, Luca Scarabelli, Umberto Cavenago, Oppy De Bernardo, Ernesto Nicola Nicolai, Gabriele Di Matteo, Alessandro Rolandi
Curated by Ermanno Cristini, Giancarlo Norese
Artistic Gymnastics. To be late. La forma del tempo perso, Berna (Trattenere il respiro per liberare lo sguardo / trattenere lo sguardo per liberare il respiro),
2021, Bern, scotch tape, site specific,,ph. Marco-Giacomoni
Artistic Gymnastics. Disegnare il respiro (Respiro leggero - Berna), 2020, pencil on tissue paper, 140x100 cm
Artistic Gymnastics. Disegnare il respiro (Respiro leggero - Berna), 2020, detail, pencil on tissue paper, 140x100 cm
DIALOGOS PART FOUR
www.dialogosart.jimdo.com/dialogos-iv
March 2018
Current, Milan
Ermanno Cristini with Simona Barbera, Ronny Faber Dahl, Vladimír Havlkík, Carlo Miele, Giancarlo Norese, Chiara Pergola, Luca Scarabelli, Una Szeemann & Bohdan Stehlik
Curated by Ermanno Cristini, Giancarlo Norese
Artistic gymnastics. Device to soft hinge, (detail) 2018 , seam on fabric, 100x70 cm, ph. Giancarlo Norese
Artistic gymnastics. Device to soft hinge, 2018 , seam on fabric, 100x70 cm, ph. Ronny Faber Dahl
DIALOGOS PART THREE
www.dialogosart.jimdo.com/dialogos-iii
May - June 2017
Vitrina Deniska - Galerie Caesar, Olomouc, Česká Republika
Simona Barbera, Alessandro Castiglioni, Ermanno Cristini, Ronny Faber Dahl, Vladimir Havlik, Carlo Miele, Giancarlo Norese, Chiara Pergola, Luca Scarabelli, Una Szeemann and Bohdan Stehlik, Miki Tallone
Curated by Ermanno Cristini, Giancarlo Norese
Artistic Gymnastics: in order to watch (Olomouz), 2017, iron hinge on base found on site, ph. Oldrich Sembera
DIALOGOS PART TWO
www.dialogosart.jimdo.com/dialogos-ii
December 2013 - January 2014
MACT/CACT Contemporary Art, Bellinzona, CH
Enrico Boccioletti, Mario Casanova, Dustin Cauchi, Alessandro Castiglioni, Richard Clements, Ermanno Cristini, Vicky Falconer, Simone Frangi, Francesca Mangion, Mickaël Marchand, Giancarlo
Norese, Paolo Tognozzi, Alessandro Rolandi, Luca Scarabelli, Miki Tallone, Virginia Zanetti
curated by Alessandro Castiglioni, Ermanno Cristini
Dialogos Secondo, Virginia Zanetti, Ermanno Cristini, photo Pier Giorgio De Pinto
Dialogos Secondo, Mickael Marchand, Luca Scarabelli, Ermanno Cristini, Miki Tallone, photo Pier Giorgio De Pinto
DIALOGOS PART ONE
www.dialogosart.jimdo.com/dialogos
May 2011
Assab One, Milan
Andy Boot, Sergio Breviario, Alessandro Castiglioni, Antonio Catelani, Ermanno Cristini, Giovanni Morbin, Giancarlo Norese, Goran Petercol, Fabio Sandri, Luca Scarabelli, Emily Speed, Alessandra Spranzi
Curated by Alessandro Castiglioni, Ermanno Cristini
Dialogos Primo, Antonio Catelani, Alessandra Spranzi, Luca Scarabelli, Ermanno Cristini, Emily Speed
Dialogos Primo, Goran Petercol, Ermanno Cristini
