MAST - MANUFACTURE OF ARTS, EXPERIMENTATION AND TECHNOLOGY

PENDULUM

Pendulum

MOVING FOODS, MOVING PEOPLE
Images from the MAST Foundation's Collection

On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the opening of the eponymous cultural center, the MAST Foundation presents a new selection of works from its collection of photographs, video installations, and photo albums on the themes of industry and labor. Over 250 historical and contemporary images by 65 great authors from around the world –masters of international renown such as Robert Doisneau, David Goldblatt, Helen Levitt, and Mario De Biasi alongside younger talents including Richard Mosse, Ulrich Gebert, and Sonja Braas – focus on the genius and energy that over the last two centuries have driven people to design means and infrastructures to move goods, people, and data.
A multi-voiced reflection on the theme of speed that characterizes contemporary society, the exhibition, of which the pendulum is the visual metaphor, illustrates the opposing energies that arise from the two phenomena that dominate our present: on the one hand, the bursting force of engines, the enormous acceleration, the means of transport transformed into the fetish of our time, continuous connection as an absolute imperative, and on the other hand, the slowdown, the sudden brake, the blockage of the flows of people who migrate, the only barrier to the myth of global mobility.

Works by:
YTO BARRADA, GABRIELE BASILICO, SONJA BRAAS, LUCA CAMPIGOTTO, CLODT VON JÜRGENSBURG, MARIO DE BIASI, ROBERT DOISNEAU, ROGER FENTON, MARIO FINOCCHIARO, FLOTO + WARNER, VINCENT FOURNIER, ROBERT FRANK, SIMON FRIDLAND, ULRICH GEBERT, RICCARDO GILARDI, FRANK GOHLKE, GEERT GOIRIS, DAVID GOLDBLATT, HEIN GORNY, GUIDO GUIDI, JACQUELINE HASSINK, ROBERT HÄUSSER, LEWIS W. HINE, RUDOLF HOLTAPPEL, EMIL OTTO HOPPÉ, BORIS IGNATOVICH, WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON, GASTON JACQUIN, JEAN-PIERRE LAFFONT, MIMMO JODICE, PHILIP JONES, ANNICA KARLSSON RIXON, PETER KEETMAN, TORKEL KORLING, JUSTIN KOZLOWSKI, KARL KRÜGER, GERMAINE KRULL, DOROTHEA LANGE, HELEN LEVITT, O. WINSTON LINK, ELI LOTAR, MALESHERBES PHOTO, RÉMY MARKOWITSCH, EDGAR MARTINS, DON McCULLIN, TINA MODOTTI, RICHARD MOSSE, UGO MULAS, MARTIN MUNKÁCSI, ANTONIO PAOLETTI, ALFRED PERSON, XAVIER RIBAS, LUCIANO RIGOLINI, STEFANO ROBINO, TATA RONKHOLZ, ARKADIJ SAJCHET, ROGER SCHALL, BEN SHAHN, GRAHAM SMITH, HENRIK SPOHLER, JOHN THOMSON, ALEXEY TITARENKO, JAKOB TUGGENER, BRETT WESTON

until January 13, 2019

TUESDAY-SUNDAY 10:00-19:00

FREE ADMISSION