Conversation between Marco Scotini, Mariette Schiltz, and Enrico Lunghi. Introduction in French by Charlotte Masse.
Die Parabel vom Wasserbecken is the title of an unfinished book project by the Luxembourg artist Bert Theis (1952 - 2016) dating from 1986, recently rediscovered in his archives and transformed into a publishing project.
This series of collages is emblematic of the artist's work in the 1980s. Based on the text The Parable of the Water Tank by the American author Edward Bellamy (1816-1886), this series is a satire on capitalism taken from his utopian novel Equality (1897), which was a great success in militant socialist and anarchist circles at the time. Presented in an archive binder and organized into eleven chapters, the collages enter into dialogue with extracts from the text.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Marco Scotini is an art critic and exhibition curator. He is currently the Artistic Director at FM Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea in Milan, a center specializing in the preservation and promotion of private collections, artist archives, and contemporary art. Since 2004, he has been the Director of the Visual Arts Department at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan and Rome. He is the scientific director of the Gianni Colombo Archives, Bert Theis Archives, Clemen Parrocchetti Archives, Nanni Balestrini Archives, and Bruno Di Bello Archives. Since 2014, he has been responsible for the exhibition program at PAV – Parco Arte Vivente in Turin. He was the Artistic Director of the 2nd Yinchuan Biennale in 2018 and from 2019 to 2021, he was a member of the Italian Council. He has organized over two hundred exhibitions for major national and international art institutions, including the Albanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2015), three editions of the Prague Biennale (2003, 2005, 2007), L’Inarchiviabile / The Unarchivable. Italy in the 70s at FM Center for Contemporary Art in Milan (2016), the Anren Biennale (2017), the second Yinchuan Biennale (2018), Il Soggetto Imprevisto (2019) on Italian feminist archives, the 17th Istanbul Biennale (2022), the BETA Biennale in Timișoara (2022), and served as advisor for the Bangkok Biennale (2020 and 2022). Disobedience Archive, from 2005 to 2014, traveled to museums in many cities worldwide, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Nottingham Contemporary, Raven Row in London, the Kunsthalle in Charlottenborg, the Istanbul Biennale (2022), the BETA Biennale in Timișoara (2022), and the Venice Biennale (2024). He is the director of the Geoarchivi series published by Meltemi and has authored numerous monographs on Italian and international artists (including Gianni Pettena, Ugo La Pietra, Deimantas Narkevicius, Laura Grisi, Mario Cresci).Mariette Schiltz is a video maker and former social worker based in Milan and Luxembourg. Co-founder of Isola Art Center, out-Office for Urban Transformation and Isola Pepe Verde. Since 2001 she has been involved in the coordination of the different art projects in the Isola district in Milan. She has produced several videos about the history of the Isola conflict: Ondanomala, it/f, for Mamco, Geneva 2003; Isola Nostra, it/eng, for 10th International Istanbul Biennial 2007; Isola, a neo-liberal Italian tale, it/eng, for the Tirana Contemporary Art Biennial 2009.
With Bert Theis and Antonio Brizioli she made the book Fight-Specific Isola, Archive Books in 2013. In 2020 she founded the Bert Theis Archive.
Enrico Lunghi is an art historian. He was a scientific assistant at the National Museum of History and Art from 1991 to 1995, then Artistic Director of Casino Luxembourg – Forum of Contemporary Art from 1996 to 2008. He was Director General of Mudam from 2009 to 2016. He served as curator for Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale in 1995 (Bert Theis, Potemkin Lock), in 1999 (Simone Decker, Chewing and Folding Projects), and in 2007 (Jill Mercedes, Endless Lust). In 2009, he was curator in Venice for the French Community of Wallonia-Brussels with the project 100 Sexes d’artistes by Jacques Charlier. From 2005 to 2011, he was president of IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art). He has published numerous articles on contemporary art and artists, as well as several works of fiction that explore his relationship with art. Since 2017, he has been a research officer at the Ministry of National Education (SCRIPT and University of Luxembourg).
plusieurs fictions qui thématisent son rapport à l’art. Depuis 2017, il est chargé d’études au Ministère de l’éducation nationale (SCRIPT et Université de Luxembourg).
