Covid, “Precarious art”, Gianuizzi and the students of Aba Catania

It was 1981 when Gino Gianuizzi, artist, gallery owner, curator, founded Neon, one of the first independent spaces for art in Italy, also known internationally.

That experience, as emerged from the second round of the talk cycle on “Precarious Art”, organized by the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania, in thirty years has represented a territory of multiple nature, coagulating around it a storm of ferments in various places in Bologna and Milan. And, although since 2011 it is no longer a physical space, its experience continues in numerous projects curated by the founder.

Numerous also for this second appointment those who followed the event on the various platforms and social networks – Teams, Youtube, Facebook and Instagram – to listen to the protagonists reflect on contemporary art and on the radical mutations it is experiencing due to the Covid pandemic -19.

(Anyone wishing to review the meeting can do so through this link)

Of the various episodes narrated during the talk by Gianuizzi, stimulated by the questions of Ambra Stazzone and Lorenzo Madaro, both professors of the History of Contemporary Art of the Alba and curators of the series of meetings, it emerged as the activity of Neon for many years has been a point of reference for the “Art System” managing to promote the research of young artists free from market constraints. An institution, the archetype of non-profit spaces, which has left its cultural imprint since its inception in the eighties of the last century, when, it has been pointed out, Bologna was playing New York.

Particularly lively was the moment of the meeting in which the artist answered the questions of the students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania.

“As often happens – said Gino Gianuizzi – in this kind of seminar meetings, the students’ questions turned out to be decidedly interesting and stimulating”.