1 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:17,490 Good afternoon. I want to deliver an academic speech today for two reasons first reason because I was just noticed 2 00:00:17,490 --> 00:00:23,430 that should speak of two days ago that I didn't have really time to prepare something rigorous. 3 00:00:23,430 --> 00:00:33,030 And number two, because we have had all the afternoon, all the day, and that could follow that fascinating good academic lectures. 4 00:00:33,030 --> 00:00:43,800 And I think every single almost was said about to chai art, Chinese style Chinese invention. 5 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:53,100 So it would be more sort of direct to your memory because I've heard that in the show, I'm going to wait to discover a couple of minutes. 6 00:00:53,100 --> 00:01:00,630 You have some works from our show in Naples presented here. 7 00:01:00,630 --> 00:01:13,290 So it's a great excitement film for me as a as a curator, so I could maybe tell you a little bit about this specific adventure. 8 00:01:13,290 --> 00:01:18,480 In fact, the sure side coaching in Pompeii. 9 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:25,380 Inside the volcano came from a sort of dream that I had one day visiting again and 10 00:01:25,380 --> 00:01:37,440 again Pompeii and thinking about this fascinating and strange paradox of the. 11 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:52,350 A city and a body of arts. Probably the best body of antique arts and city conservative in the world and paradoxically. 12 00:01:52,350 --> 00:01:55,220 Death, destruction. 13 00:01:55,220 --> 00:02:07,400 Disaster being as, in fact, the best conservator of art, because without the Vince review the explosion, the eruption wouldn't happen today. 14 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:19,940 All of that probably, and also in the fascinating new archaeological museum of Naples that I'm sure all of you visited. 15 00:02:19,940 --> 00:02:34,710 If not, you have to visit it. There is a fascination we could observe looking at the visitors and even as visitors, the coming of. 16 00:02:34,710 --> 00:02:41,090 Facing those objects with artefacts, which are. 17 00:02:41,090 --> 00:02:50,270 Which of the tragedies printed into the objects, the tragedy of of Pompeii? 18 00:02:50,270 --> 00:02:57,530 So I've thought of Chad and of this. Creative destruction. 19 00:02:57,530 --> 00:03:02,180 Is going to the arts and Buddhism. 20 00:03:02,180 --> 00:03:17,080 And I called him thinking that within this journey into the roots of the Western artistry he had been developing all these last years. 21 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:26,470 The Topi was an essential step and immediately told me, but I always dreamed about. 22 00:03:26,470 --> 00:03:31,630 I never went there, but it does. It is lacking in context, dream to me. 23 00:03:31,630 --> 00:03:37,810 So it was the kitchen. It was something absolutely like something obvious. 24 00:03:37,810 --> 00:03:41,050 Something had to be done here. 25 00:03:41,050 --> 00:03:52,600 Then another Jordan, they started to convince the archaeological park and to convince the museum because I didn't want as a short term statement. 26 00:03:52,600 --> 00:04:06,880 A temporary exhibition room because the idea was supposedly to make a dialogue, meaning a confrontation and to really creative earn. 27 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:17,230 Eventually, the confusion. For the visitors between them, the artefacts from Pompeii and the artworks made by Typekit, 28 00:04:17,230 --> 00:04:33,310 so that's why you will see that we purposely try to use the replicas of some sculptures sometimes very famous from the and from the museum. 29 00:04:33,310 --> 00:04:45,200 You know, do you learn in the same room as to create? The shadow of a doubt and to create that. 30 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,940 So. 31 00:04:46,940 --> 00:05:04,410 It started by this also what we call an explosive studio, because it was important to and really good film here, something quite different from the. 32 00:05:04,410 --> 00:05:12,510 Explosion so that someone seises use the two to do is art is essentially performative. 33 00:05:12,510 --> 00:05:21,210 What you have said that a long time today and we thought that the Institute of Pompey, 34 00:05:21,210 --> 00:05:27,250 which was the place of the spectacle, which was the stage of the performance. 35 00:05:27,250 --> 00:05:38,470 Just under the volcano was absolutely the right stage to talk about this destructive creation and this problematic. 36 00:05:38,470 --> 00:05:43,550 And so instead of doing one performance for one painting or something like this, 37 00:05:43,550 --> 00:05:51,700 I got the idea to create a theatre stage to inhabit differentI Theatre. 38 00:05:51,700 --> 00:06:02,500 We've in fact what I call an installation of explosions because it was not only one the performance like you used to do, 39 00:06:02,500 --> 00:06:10,180 for example, in preview of the meeting of the process of the creation of one singular artwork. 40 00:06:10,180 --> 00:06:17,710 But. The creation of 80 percent of the whole issue. 41 00:06:17,710 --> 00:06:23,150 You can imagine, though, the challenge, the research. 42 00:06:23,150 --> 00:06:31,970 Of creating on the stage of this amphitheatre the day before the opening of a show in 43 00:06:31,970 --> 00:06:39,800 the National Archaeological Museum in 18 routes dedicated 80 percent of the show, 44 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,520 so that was really a way. 45 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:56,690 With the risk that the risk of the failure of union, which would have destroyed and consolidate all the process or the show because there was no plan. 46 00:06:56,690 --> 00:07:00,620 We plan. And it was the best way, 47 00:07:00,620 --> 00:07:09,590 and another had to demonstrate that child at heart was essentially fundamentally performative because 48 00:07:09,590 --> 00:07:18,830 everything came during this what we call child and tell you to entertain the explosive in the studio. 49 00:07:18,830 --> 00:07:29,180 So they use the it's that to. OK, so you see the stage and then. 50 00:07:29,180 --> 00:07:45,560 The artists like either. A very complicated scene, a series of explosions which made the mayor of Pompeii telling me at the end that. 51 00:07:45,560 --> 00:08:01,100 He didn't expect a second eruption of the volcano, and during his mandate is that if he would have known that we transfer to so many changes of. 52 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:15,830 You would have and and it is important to know that you will see in the in the works you will see in the rooms of the museum in the year or so. 53 00:08:15,830 --> 00:08:23,490 In the exhibition, which works, you could see the the strength, the force. 54 00:08:23,490 --> 00:08:30,340 Printed in these works, because. Chase performance where it is in one, 55 00:08:30,340 --> 00:08:43,450 all of the preview of one filled with whodunit could not have the quantity of put a failure that we have in this and future tense. 56 00:08:43,450 --> 00:08:47,620 I can admit no, because any way there is prescriptions done, it's finished. 57 00:08:47,620 --> 00:08:53,160 The book is published that it was, of course, on the people. 58 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:58,830 Literally impossible. It was legally impossible. 59 00:08:58,830 --> 00:09:05,570 So we pushed the border because we are artists, so we have to change a little bit the thing. 60 00:09:05,570 --> 00:09:16,680 It was technically almost impossible and it was not reasonable because we had 61 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:25,050 a contract with the museum to make a show in 18 rooms and we were taking the. 62 00:09:25,050 --> 00:09:31,710 It was like gambling or something. Everything was made on this stage in 15 minutes. 63 00:09:31,710 --> 00:09:42,510 But with the preparation and the control, of course, of of China and a foot or so that it was for charging even at midnight the day before, 64 00:09:42,510 --> 00:09:52,170 it was good and we were still cringing over the last preparation and things that in fact, 65 00:09:52,170 --> 00:10:00,120 the great artists for me as the definition of the great artist not just invents or reinvents, 66 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:07,770 is art that child and you have all demonstrated that today is definitive great artist for this parameter. 67 00:10:07,770 --> 00:10:16,620 But the great artist is also someone who can copy everyone but himself and us to not only reinvent, 68 00:10:16,620 --> 00:10:25,530 but to fail to push the body of his heart to go out of the comfort zone. 69 00:10:25,530 --> 00:10:29,490 The established artists would be after some, 70 00:10:29,490 --> 00:10:38,340 and we know something that is in a sort of comfort and repeating the feeling of being at the end of the day, the copy of themselves. 71 00:10:38,340 --> 00:10:47,040 And here I accepted it to face something quite impossible, something it couldn't control. 72 00:10:47,040 --> 00:11:01,000 Totally. And the whole show that was made on the stage in an explosive studio like you never did before. 73 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:06,760 You have lots more of images in the very nice artist book. 74 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:16,450 Very, very impressive artist group shot you made after the show with photos from the book, but you have many more. 75 00:11:16,450 --> 00:11:24,970 There is an English version with Chinese, this Italian version published by Stephen Daldry, where you could see a lot of info. 76 00:11:24,970 --> 00:11:38,020 So the day after. We are them in the waiting rooms of the National Archaeological Reserve, both within the room, 77 00:11:38,020 --> 00:11:43,330 and I have to think particularly Paolo Julia Renee, the director, because he accepted it. 78 00:11:43,330 --> 00:11:47,020 I have twin sister interviewed you at Yale. Yes. 79 00:11:47,020 --> 00:11:59,890 But he accepted it to hang in some walls from Pompeii to having the child in dialogue with in the various rooms. 80 00:11:59,890 --> 00:12:09,080 And it was the. What I said about the confusion and the stupid, and we played also of the scale, 81 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:19,690 and so in every room, the couple of examples, you will have the traces of the performance. 82 00:12:19,690 --> 00:12:23,740 Exhibiting that all along the museum. 83 00:12:23,740 --> 00:12:30,870 So this is a couple of images just to show you. 84 00:12:30,870 --> 00:12:51,550 I wish it was displayed. China also accepted and got the idea to work on other mediums that the canvas inspired by the artefacts. 85 00:12:51,550 --> 00:13:00,040 You saw in the resumes, so instead of going only with painting and sculpture, 86 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:11,610 you said we have to do also ceramics have to do glass, but you will see some incredible glass. 87 00:13:11,610 --> 00:13:23,150 And that's why you are real. You have a real dialogue, so a true dialogue within the museums. 88 00:13:23,150 --> 00:13:32,310 This is a plus. Painting made also during the explosion. 89 00:13:32,310 --> 00:13:41,120 And you can see the result of of Visa. 90 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:47,930 And it was important also to hang in the same rooms because of being the way would be defined that 91 00:13:47,930 --> 00:13:56,590 the city of images when you see it was a city full of images where you find a lot of semantics. 92 00:13:56,590 --> 00:14:05,610 Life. They have security, a lot of things that you find also in Chinese work. 93 00:14:05,610 --> 00:14:12,030 It's just so physical made during the expeditions to do. 94 00:14:12,030 --> 00:14:22,920 And three metres canvas painting, which was the one that could see all along the jet, 95 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:28,350 which was like to stage the stage, was its canvas with the stuff of. 96 00:14:28,350 --> 00:14:29,910 Which was another adventure. 97 00:14:29,910 --> 00:14:47,920 We won't talk it was to hang that just above treasures of the results can imagine, but this is the middle story even in the cabinets of erotic. 98 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:52,900 Paintings. And we see some services again. 99 00:14:52,900 --> 00:15:02,800 So I want to thank you again for his trust and for this wonderful achievement. 100 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:11,830 We have many other projects together that would be for those position to tell you and I've got to wait to see no, the the show. 101 00:15:11,830 --> 00:15:21,190 And I hope that with a little background. But this bumpy adventure will appreciate even more into the works you will see there. 102 00:15:21,190 --> 00:15:35,530 Thank you.