Sponsored by VISIT, the artist-in-residence program of the RWE Foundation for Energy and Society, the exhibition “The Body of Energy (of the mind)” at CLB Berlin marks the culmination of a twelve-month project. The artist developed the project as a European expedition from Norway to Gibraltar in search of signs of both physical and cultural energy, an expedition that triggers reflection on what is not visible, on resources and relationships. The exhibition ranges from the experience of the travel project through video and photographic documentation and installations to new Berlin artworks.
Stefano Cagol: “Symbols, metaphors, current issues, immediacy, stimulating, communicating, openness, different points of view. These are the key words for my relationship with the audience. It can only be like this and not otherwise. The artwork is a way to better understand our own time and future. It is a kind of mission. In my view, art is never self-contained.”
During the travel project, the artist conducted his symbolic investigation of energy using an infrared camera and involving the public, architecture and the environment. Institutions that showed the project from October 2014 to March 2015 include Bergen Kunsthall Landmark, Bergen (NO), Museo MA*GA, Gallarate (IT), Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE), Listen to the Sirenes, Gibraltar (UK), Madre, Naples (IT), MAXXI, Rome (IT), Museion, Bolzano (IT), Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (CH), ZKM, Karlsruhe (DE), Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (IT).
The exhibition at CLB Berlin is sponsored by the RWE Foundation for Energy and Society, as Stefano Cagol is the 10th scholarship holder of the VISIT artist-in-residence program.
A 256-page book published by Revolver Publishing Berlin is dedicated to Stefano Cagol’s project “The Body of Energy (of the mind)”. It includes an introduction by Veit Loers, a text by Daniela Berglehn (curator of the VISIT program), and comments by Letizia Ragaglia, Tobia Bezzola, Andreas Beitin, and Andrea Viliani, among others. ISBN: 978-3-95763-271-5.
Stefano Cagol is an Italian-born artist. He participated in the 55th Biennale di Venezia (Maldives National Pavilion), the second Xinjiang Biennale and the first Singapore Biennale and presented his works and actions at Kunstmuseum Bochum, ZKM Karlsruhe, Folkwang Museum, Maxxi in Rome, Museion in Bolzano, Laznia in Gdansk, Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, Kunstraum Innsbruck and MARTa Herford, among others. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)