(part 2)
Eventually I arrived. Wow.
I somehow missed over 1/4 of the exhibition because I got rather involved in trying to fix a room full of 16mm projections that were off, with jammed film and no dust covers… However: wow, so much art.
(details hopefully later, if I have time to review a bit)
Then by train back to trento, collection of my suitcase and by train to Bolzano where I spent about 90 minutes trying to find a bed, not realizing I could have had a free one, instead paying a cheap as chips hotel. Found a really good restaurant, met a curator from Bulgaria but resident in Portugal got exhibition tips from him.
Next day: woke up, re-located to MSuite, an art work for living in, inside a gallery in Bolzano, a free night's sleep. I stayed 2 nights.
Then made a beeline for Bolzano's Manifesta which I found disappointing. But more about that another time. I then travelled to Fortezza walked around an old fortress with the thickest walls and dampest air and felt just like at home (remember: I live in the arctic, there is a piece of it in my flat in Liverpool)..
I wasn't enormously taken with the soundinstallations there, but I liked the ideas just nto all of the execution. It would be really nice to get the Fortezza specific section of the catalogue collection (4 books, who can afford or carry all them?)
It took me a long time to get back to Bolzano and the MSuite but I was in heaven in those comfortable beds, Art work by Hubert Kostner . Before I went back I had some pizza and the waiter informed me that he is a trained hunter from Hungary and that if I want he will come to Liverpool to protect me. Brilliant. And he gave me a huge shot of Grappa to cheer me up. It worked it's magic.
On the following day two new people arrived at the MSuite and turned out to be the missing link between me and the art. They brought everything to life and really complemented and completed the experience magnificently. Ulli and David. Ulli a curator from the Bodensee and David originally from near London, a photographer / programmer / Bus Bar operator..
They were absolutely wonderful and sowed several seeds that are currently germinating into project additions or even projects of their own.
We went to Museon together, Bolzano's new, brand new, still sparkling, contemporary art gallery. I have never been to such a flawless place. Absolutely outstanding, unforgettable, wonderful, wow, wow, wow, in case I didn't make it clear: WOW!
