Long overlooked, the 1978 exhibition, curated by Mirella Bentivoglio and dedicated to the verbo-visual explorations of eighty international women artists across diverse materials and practices, both individual and collective, marked a belated reintegration of women's and feminist art practices within an edition of the Biennale di Venezia that was not yet fully aware of their significance.
Now recognized, after a long period of oblivion, as a turning point in the institutional emergence of women's creativity and feminist art,
Materializzazione del linguaggio was re-presented as a new exhibition in 2022, on the centenary of Bentivoglio's birth, at Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare in Bolzano, and is now re-materialized in this publication.
Featuring visual and textual contributions from curators and editors Cristiana Perrella, Andrea Viliani, and Vittoria Pavesi; artists
Tomaso Binga,
Monica Bonvicini,
BRACHA, and Nora Turato, who were invited to re-activate the exhibition; exhibition designer Matilde Cassani; book designer Irma Boom; and graphic designers from Studio Mut, this publication, like the exhibition, navigates between bi- and tri-dimensionality, blurring the distinction between artwork and document, between museum and archive.
Designed by Irma Boom Office, the publication also includes a photographic foldout showcasing the works presented in the 2022 exhibition at Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare in Bolzano.
Featuring Annalisa Alloatti,
Mirella Bentivoglio,
Cathy Berberian,
Tomaso Binga,
Irma Blank,
Monica Bonvicini,
Irma Boom,
BRACHA (Bracha L. Ettinger),
Blanca Calparsoro,
Françoise Canal,
Matilde Cassani,
Paula Claire,
Rochella Cooper,
Betty Danon,
Sonia Delaunay,
Agnes Denes,
Chiara Diamantini,
Neide Dias de Sá,
Lia Drei,
Janie Van Den Driessche,
Anna Esposito,
Amelia Etlinger,
Sylvie Fauconnier,
Maria Ferrero Gussago,
Mona Fillières,
Gisela Frankenberg,
Luisa Gardini,
Ilse Garnier,
Rimma Gerlovina,
Natalia Goncharova,
Pat Grimshaw,
Bohumila Grögerová,
Shasha Guiga,
Elisabetta Gut,
Micheline Hachette,
Ana Hatherly,
Annalies Klophaus,
Janina Kraupe,
Christina Kubisch,
Ketty La Rocca,
Katalin Ladik,
Maria Lai,
Liliana Landi,
Sveva Lanza,
Paola Levi Montalcini,
Laura Marcheschi,
Lucia Marcucci,
Benedetta Marinetti,
Silvia Mejía,
Gisella Meo,
Aurèlia Muñoz,
Giulia Niccolai,
Anna Oberto,
Anésia Pacheco e Chaves,
Anna Paci,
Anna Paparatti,
Jacqueline Phanelleux,
Jennifer Pike,
Marguerite Pinney,
Betty Radin,
Regina (Cassolo Bracchi),
Ol'ga Rozanova,
Giovanna Sandri,
Anne Sauser-Hall,
Evelina Schatz,
Mira Schendel,
Greta Schödl,
Eleanor Schott,
Berty Skuber,
Mary Ellen Solt,
Marlise Staehelin,
Varvara Fyodorovna Stepanova,
Wendy Stone,
Chima Sunada,
Jacqueline Tarkieltaub,
Salette Tavares,
Biljana Tomić,
Jean Trevor,
Nora Turato,
Carla Vasio,
Tatiana Vladimirova Vechorka,
Patrizia Vicinelli,
Florence Villers,
Simona Weller,
Francine Widmer.
