Conversation Piece | Part V
(There is no longer any beauty except in the struggle)

Rebecca Digne, Invernomuto, Julian Rosefeldt, Marinella Senatore

Curated by Marcello Smarrelli
Open to the public: 16th December 2018 – 24th March 2019

Fondazione Memmo presents Conversation Piece | Part V, the new stage of a cycle of exhibitions, curated by Marcello Smarrelli and dedicated to Italian and foreign artists temporarily residing in Rome.
The subtitle of the exhibition: There is no longer any beauty except in the struggle, comes from a passage of the Futurist Manifesto, published by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909 in the French newspaper Le Figaro. This seminal text refers to the work of the artist as a way of taking up a political and intellectual position – as staking a claim to an autonomy and freedom that effects the civil sphere – but also as a manifestation of the self, and of a more interior and intimate dimension.
All of the works on display have either been created for the exhibition or readapted specifically for the exhibition spaces of the Fondazione Memmo.
The exhibition will also be accompanied by a publication at the start of 2019.