Gianfranco Baruchello Psicoenciclopedia possibile (Possible psychoencyclopaedia

Fondazione Baruchello presents the project by Gianfranco Baruchello, Psicoenciclopedia possibile.

Esercizi per farla (Possible psychoencyclopaedia. Exercises for its creation), produced through support from the Italian Council (VII edition, 2019), a programme by the General Directorate of Contemporary Creativity at the Ministry of Culture for the international promotion of Italian art. The pivotal element in the cycle of exhibitions and presentations is the like-named work Psicoenciclopedia possibile (Possible psychoencyclopaedia), a reinterpretation of the encyclopaedia’s intrinsic identity, created by Gianfranco Baruchello from 2017 to 2020,commissioned and published by the Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana (Institute of the Italian 
Encyclopaedia) founded by Giovanni Treccani. The first exhibition #event is hosted by the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève from 14 September to 17 October 2021, which will be followed by Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, from 25 September to 24 October 2021 and by CIMA - Center for Italian Modern Art, #newyork, which completes the schedule, from 6 to 12 December 2021.

In this monumental and complex project, Baruchello, a crossover artist who has used a variety of languages and techniques, including painting, objects, installations and writing, has created a complex system that, in 816 pages, uses unexpected juxtapositions to connect 1,200 entries (in the first part of the volume) and 200 sheets of images (in the second part). The entries are derived from published and unpublished writings, notes and transcriptions of dreams, while the images are the outcome of a long process of selection and assembly utilising various sources, some of which pre-existent.

Further information in the press release to download