Tra il caso e la necessità

Alberto Biasi, Axel Lieber, Christian Megert, Nahum Tevet

Curated by Gianluca Ranzi

From 28 March to 17 May 2019

Comprising works by Alberto Biasi, Axel Lieber, Christian Megert and Nahum Tevet, the exhibition curated by Gianluca Ranzi focuses on the fascinating theme of chance, suggested by the title of the well-known book by the French biochemist Jacques Monod.
Art, cinema and literature are evidence of the existence of chance: they show how the bifurcations (of existence, opportunities or events) are continuous and often unforeseen. The numerous possibilities that art presents give rise to different, often divergent, worlds thatconfute the idea of a single world held together by necessity. Monod argued that it is only a view of the whole picture that keeps chance and necessity together and can explain the evolution of humankind and hence its cultural processes. What the artists participating in this exhibition have in common is — despite the diversity of their respective practices and the variety of their output — an ambivalent attitude that demonstrates, on the one hand, the necessity of form (Axel Lieber), composition (Nahum Tevet), dynamism (Albert Biasi) and space (Christian Megert), but on the other inserts an antibody into their works.  In a sense this is a derivative of chance and it shatters the order and necessity of their original formulation.

Press release

Artists
Axel Lieber
Christian Megert
Nahum Tevet