Buttafuoco, ‘retrace his journey to the light of the future’
After China and Venice, Istanbul also hosts from today “It is the wind that does the sky”, a special project of the historical archive of the Biennale, curated by Luigia Lonardelli, conceived on the occasion of the 700 years celebrations since the death of Marco Polo. On the banks of the gold horn, in the courtyard of an Ottoman building of the nineteenth century recently restored and reopened as an artistic space, the public will be able to admire the itinerant work “Amfibio” until Sunday 5 October, commissioned by the Venice Biennale to the Turkish artist Cevdet Erek, in a collaboration with the Foundation for the arts and culture of Istanbul (Iksv). For four consecutive days, starting at 6 pm, visitors will be able to attend the performances of composers and musicians who will alternate on and around the work, a light wood structure installed in the Feshane courtyard, in tune with the external environment and the urban and sound panorama of the city on the Bosphorus. After the first stop in Hangzhou in China, with the exhibition “The perfect path” inaugurated on November 9, 2024, and the second in Venice with the exhibition “Mukazhanova. Memory of Hope”, Istanbul is naturally part of the route, also as a “twin” city of Venice, as the president of the Biennale, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, underlined. “They are twin cities, they are cities that have this ability to decipher the contemporary and return it to public opinion, to widespread sensitivity,” said Buttafuoco at the Ansa before the press conference. The project wants to return the figure of Marco Polo to its own dimension, “that of a merchant capable of building realities, and the way we have to build realities is to go to the places and retrace this path, in the light of the future”, underlined the president of the biennial, calling “exciting” the relationship with Iksv, while the next stages of the project will be in India and Mongolia.
