“At 8 usual place & Voyage to Italy”
May 9-July 27, 2008
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa

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It’s  opened from  May 9, 2008 at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice and simultaneously to the Museum of Contemporary Photography Cinisello Balsamo-Milan the first staff in Italy Victor Burgin.
Victor Burgin has always taken forward in parallel the artistic practice and theoretical. Even when, around 1990, he joined the photographic language to traditional digital video, has continued to fuel the theoretical debate on image due to a timely exploration of new audiovisual technologies and a constant and careful analisys on the evolution of media companies. In his artistic production Burgin uses elements from different fields experiential: from advertising to journalism, from art to psychoanalysis, from fashion to the magazine.
The project that the Museum of Contemporary Photography Cinisello Balsamo (Milan) and the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice have made sees production by the artist of a new video: “At 8 usual place “, inspired by the final sequence of the film” L’Eclisse “by Michelangelo Antonioni. The work combines images of Venice, in the suburb of San Basilio, with impressions gathered during a visit to Milan in the Monte Stella. In Venice are also made two series of photographs and texts that are part of video Voyage to Italy: The Basilica (2006) and Basilica II (2006).