Adam Berg's solo show at Pio Monti in Rome explores intersections of nature and humanity in our increasingly global culture.
Outside, in the piazza of the Roman gallery of Pio Monti Arte Contemporanea, one encounters The Fountain of Turtles (Fontana delle Tartarughe) which has captivated the imagination of many, including that of Pasolini. For his show at the gallery Adam Berg, a Los Angeles based artist, has identified the fountain as a “container of times, memories and identities of one’s body” – a real life canvas for the works inside the gallery. Berg’s video piece, Pier Paolo’s Fountain introduces three distinct chronotopes, each importing a place-time which disrupts the continuity of experience as a quotidian flow: the piazza and Fontane delle Tartarughe (The Turtle Fountain); Pasolini’s first film Accattone; and the apparitional animals enacting perceived notions of change.
