Paolo Ventura. Bologna 10+1

In the foyer of the MAMbo museum, Bologna 10 + 1 is Paolo Ventura's new work dedicated to the city of Bologna.

In Bologna 10 + 1, Paolo Ventura pays homage to the city of Bologna through photographic works printed on several panels sewn together on which Ventura uses painting to omit and highlight images, creating bare urban landscapes that evoke surprise and nostalgia. 

The artist's fascination with architectural forms stripped of their past, already a theme in Milan by wire and by sign and even earlier in The Infinite City (2012), with the cancellation of superfetations goes beyond the oneiric to dwell on the dimension of the solid understood as a geometric figure.

The urban landscapes are reduced to a minimum and devoid of public participation, they do not send signals or messages of any kind, but simply recover the idea of the game, a place where the spectator, in retrospect, can imagine and imagine the scripts he prefers.

Paolo Ventura's Bologna concedes little or nothing to stereotypes about the city, it does not manifest itself through its symbolic places, and when this rarely happens the architectural contexts are transfigured, losing their immediate recognisability.