“Lo Schermo dell’Arte” is a project dedicated to exploring and promoting the relationships between cinema and contemporary art through a festival, research and training projects, exhibitions, artist residencies, production, distribution, and educational programs. It was founded in Florence in 2008 and over the years has collaborated with numerous art centers, institutions, museums, academies, and universities in Italy and abroad. In its sixteen years of activity, it has involved over 300 artists, filmmakers, producers, curators, and more than 50 institutions worldwide, confirming its role in discovering new talents and delving into new expressive languages.
This year again, from April 4th to 7th, the Pinault Foundation renews its collaboration with this institution, whose programmatic lines are particularly close to its own, with a selection of films from the 2023 edition program, specially curated for the Venetian public and hosted in the futuristic spaces of the Teatrino conceived by Tadao Ando. Four screening evenings with documentaries on figures in the art world and artist films.
The first event, on Thursday, April 4th at 6 pm, features a non-academic lecture by Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué, with The Pixelate Revolution: in 2011, during the early stages of the Syrian revolution, the Lebanese artist began collecting images posted on social media by protesters demonstrating against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Mroué reflects on the relationship between the act of documenting the “here and now” with death and how this relationship is perceived by the rest of the world observing. In the following days, there will be works ranging from 3D to biopics, including documentaries by artists from all over the world, all united by the desire to bring the evocative power of the artistic medium to the big screen.
