DO ANIMALS GO TO HEAVEN?

The exhibition Do Animals go to Heaven? scheduled from the 9th of April 2022 at Chiesa del Purgatorio presents an accurate selection of works from the Agovino Collection – except some loaned ones – in order to reinvent the experience of reality through the complex relationship between nature and artifice and to open glimmers on images that let surface figures full of doubts about the next future.

The exhibition is curated by the Agovino Collection in cooperation with Francesca Blandino and aims at exploring some key concepts of contemporary world such as environment, technology, material and spirituality by arranging interpretative devices for the definition of relationship mechanisms of human peculiarities and of their interconnection with nature and other living beings.

The event has been granted by Istituto Diocesano per il Sostentamento del Clero dell’Arcidiocesi in Matera- Irsina, below the patronage of the Municipality of Matera, in cooperation with Alessandro Albanese Gallery and the Social Coop. “Oltre l’Arte”.

Involved artists: Alex Ayed, Alina Chaiderov, Andrè Romao, Alberto Tadiello, Antonio Della Corte, Carolina Mesquita, Chiara Camoni, David Fesl, David Jablonowksy, Eugenio Tibaldi, Evgeny Antufiev, Francesco Arena, Gina Folly, Giulia Cenci, Haris Epaminonda, Igor Grubić, Jota Castro, Lin May Saeed, Lito Kattou, Luca Francesconi, Martin Soto Climent, Michael E. Smith, Namsal Siedlecki, Nina Canell, Nona Inescu, Olu Oguibe, Petra Feriancová, Petrit Halilaj, Reverie, Ser Serpas, Shadi Harouni, Zoe Williams.