mondo magico : padiglione Italia Biennele Arte 2017

The exhibition Il mondo magico (The magical world) is accompanied by a book exploring the ideas at the heart of the 2017 Italian Pavilion. The volume is divided into two main sections.
The first section introduces the theme of the exhibition from various angles. It includes an essay by Cecilia Alemani on the “magical world” as a system for interpreting reality that the invited artists, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Roberto Cuoghi, and Adelita Husni-Bey, employ in very different ways; an essay by Fabio Dei, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Pisa, about the research methods used by Ernesto de Martino—author of the book that inspired the exhibition’s theme and title—and the context out of which they developed. The second section is divided in two three parts, each featuring two texts on one of the three invited artists.