ΊΚΑΡΟΣ (Icarus)

Also this June, Palazzo Bentivoglio opens its garden to the public at sunset for a series of dates dedicated to a contemporary artist. After a project on John Giorno and Ugo Rondinone in 2023 and Riccardo Benassi's robotic performance ULTRAMORE last summer, this time the appointment is renewed in an unprecedented corner of the garden,
with eight nights of screening of IKARUS (Icarus) (2020-21, 30'23”) by Giorgio Andreotta Calò. \n Shot in December 2020 inside a butterfly pavilion abandoned some time ago, inside the zoo in Emmen (The Netherlands) that would have been demolished shortly thereafter, the film moves between reality and fiction, documenting the activity of a colony of moths restored by the artist inside the abandoned building and following the words and gestures of Enzo Moretto, an expert entomologist, and Bart Coppens, a young self-taught person. In the relationship between teacher and apprentice, as well as in the metamorphic cycle of lepidoptera, attracted by electric light during the hours of darkness, the narrative of the myth of the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus is revived in an evocative way. \n At Palazzo Bentivoglio, in a small portion of the garden recently acquired and not yet restored, Ikarus (Icarus) will be projected into a abandoned structure intended for dismantling. For the occasion, this space has been transformed into a large aviary, accessible to the public, where Andreotta Calò has installed dozens of moth cocoons, which will complete their metamorphosis on the days of the screening.