TIME, SPACE & EXISTENCE-Traveling Exhibiton
An artistic rendering of Marco Polo’s Voyage
The Project
Atelier Morales, a two-artist team, travelled accross key points of the historical Marco Polo routes to capture via rendered photographs how these corridors that today still connect Asia to the rest of the world allow for a flow of energies, information, goods and people.
« This long and memorable voyage resulted in a vast body of photography that attempts to accurately express the confluence of space, time and existence observed all along the extraordinary land- and cityscapes that we traversed. »
The Journey
The artists travelled more than 14000 km by land through China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan:
« Our itinerary, which purposely overlapped with some of the routes taken by Marco Polo and Baron Von Richthofen, revealed many emblems that once seen could not be forgotten. The constant challenge was to capture the vast accumulation of information and the varied images encountered, in order to discern the recurring signs that help form a redundant memory on which the silk road’s temporal transcendence is based.«
« In the works that we have created, “arrival” and “departure” figure as key leitmotifs representing the omnipresent road, without which the cities that we visited would not have developed, nor the life that evolved in them and in their surroundings.«
Traveling Exhibition
FIRST STOP:
May 11-November 24, 2019
Venice Art Biennale
SECOND STOP:
June-July 2022
The Museum of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
THIRD STOP:
September-October 2022
The Central Bank of Hungary for the occasion of the Budapest Eurasia Forum
This exhibition will continue to tour cities worldwide with a next stop planned in Mexico for May 2026 (details forthcoming).
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