- NewFaustianWorld – A book, a movie, an exhibition
Curated by Raffaele Quattrone
Beatrice Burati Anderson Art Space & Gallery is pleased to invite you at the opening of NewFaustianWorld a project including a book published by 24 ORE Cultura – Gruppo 24 ORE, a movie directed by Piero Passaro and produced by Theater 7/2 Productions and an art exhibition.
Already showed at 6 on Nebraska Film Festival in Cape Town (South Africa), at Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival in Mumbai (India), at Musée de Bastia (France), at MACRO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, at Real Academia de Espana en Rome, in Bologna in occasion of Art CITY Cinema, in Rimini at Augeo Art Space… NewFaustianWorld returns in Venice where last December the film NFW has been awarded as Best Documentary.
In a world where the destiny of man seems resigned to have disappeared, Raffaele Quattrone involves 17 internationals artists with a Faustian Factor: a strong and recognizable artistic identity and an exasperated virtuosity that allows them to compete with the infinite possibilities of the computer, with the precision of photographic evidence, with the reactions and relationships of video and performances. NewFaustianWorld is the world of people like Goethe’s Faust, emblem of modern man, has an inner tension that pushes him not to settle for the norm but to make his own philosophy about how life is extraordinary, to go further, achieve new goals, to accept new challenges…