Press Conference: Friday, June 27, at 17:30 am, Municipality of Tarzo, Via Estramurale Torre di Fino, Miglionico (MT)
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Opening: Friday, June 27, 2025, at 6:00 pm, Via Estramurale Torre di Fino, Miglionico (MT)
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Following that, starting from 7:30 PM at the Torre di Fino, there will be a DJ set by the duo Killer Bob, in collaboration with TAM–Tower Art Museum of Matera.
Free parking is recommended at: Parcheggio Comunale, Via Estramurale Castello 11A, 75010 Miglionico (MT).
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Discover the map here
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Click here to download the invitation and press kit.
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MMMMMMM KM stems from a reimagining of an iconic object: the panoramic binocular. Typically placed at scenic viewpoints to offer a closer look at the landscape, here it becomes a deceptive device, capable of overturning the conventional reading of Miglionico’s panorama.
Installed at the Torre di Fino—once a boundary tower of the ancient borgo—the device invites viewers to open their gaze to multiple horizons, responding to the question: “What do I see 7,000 km from Miglionico?” This distance is no coincidence: it is inspired by a motto on the town’s historic coat of arms—Milone Milite Magno Munì Miglionico di Magnifiche Mura—in which the seven “M”s, interpreted as Roman numerals, represent the number seven thousand.
The work expands the concept of the “view,” a recurring theme in art history, and redefines the very idea of borders, dissolving geographical and cultural boundaries.
Completing the project is Lontanissimissimo, a series of postcards distributed throughout local businesses in Miglionico.
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Artworks:
01. Vaste Programme, MMMMMMM KM, 2025, sandblasted stainless steel, plexiglass, smartphone, 150 x 50 x 50 cmdimensions.
Via Estramurale Torre di Fino, Miglionico (MT)
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02. Vaste Programme, Lontanissimissimo, 2025.
Postcard project distributed across local businesses in Miglionico.
Pick your free postcard and send it to whoever you like!
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Miglionico (MT)
27.06.2025
Via Estramurale Torre di Fino
16:00
WE EXPLORE IMAGES THROUGH PRACTICES OF APPROPRIATION AND RE-SIGNIFICATION, ALWAYS SEEKING TO MAINTAIN AN IRONIC GAZE.
WE SHIFTED OUR VIEW BEYOND THE BORDER (AND THE TOWER) USING A BINOCULAR TO LOOK FAR AWAY. A VIEW IS A WINDOW ONTO THE WORLD, THOUGH NOT ALWAYS ONTO THE WORLD WE EXPECT.ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
Vaste Programme is an artistic duo founded in 2017 by Giulia Vigna (Latina, 1992) and Leonardo Magrelli (Rome, 1989). Their research focuses primarily on climate change and the use of technology by the mass public, both explored through their presence in the iconosphere. Images and photography are central to their practice, which they approach through post-photographic and installation-based methods, using strategies of appropriation, re-signification, détournement, and quotation—often with a layer of bitter irony. Their work has been exhibited in numerous institutions and art spaces, including: FMAV – Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena (IT, 2024); Italian Cultural Institute, London (UK, 2024); Real Collegio, Lucca (IT, 2024); Palazzo Reale, Milan (IT, 2023); Mattatoio, Rome (IT, 2023); Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence (IT, 2023); CAMERA – Italian Centre for Photography, Turin (IT, 2023); Museo Civico G. Fattori, Livorno (IT, 2023); Palazzo Lucarini, Trevi (IT, 2023); Spazio In Situ, Rome (IT, 2023); Fondazione smART, Rome (IT, 2022); Galleria 1/9unosunove, Rome (IT, 2022); Viaraffineria, Catania (IT, 2021); Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo (IT, 2021); Polycopies, Paris (FR, 2021); Chiostri di San Domenico, Reggio Emilia (IT, 2021); Palazzo Baldelli, Cortona (IT, 2021); Etherea Gallery, Genoa (IT, 2021); Musei Civici Eremitani, Padua (IT, 2020); Unseen, Amsterdam (NL, 2019); and Odessa Museum (UA, 2019). They have published two books: The Long Way Home of Ivan Putnik, Truck Driver (The Eriskay Connection, 2021) and How to Make Jam (Witty Books, 2022).
Miglionico stands on a hill between the Bradano River and the Basento River, in the heart of eastern Basilicata, in the province of Matera. The village is dominated by the Castello del Malconsiglio, one of the oldest in the region, known for hosting the famous Barons’ Conspiracy against King Ferdinand I of Aragon. Its privileged position offers views over the Lucanian landscape and the San Giuliano Nature Reserve, which extends along the right bank of the Bradano River and the homonymous lake, an integral part of the municipal territory.
The legendary origins of the village are intertwined with the figure of Milon—famous athlete of ancient Croton and celebrated Olympic victor multiple times as a wrestling champion at the Olympic Games—who is said to have founded the city. According to another version, it was Milon of Taranto, lieutenant of Pyrrhus, who, arriving on the hills between the Bradano and the Basento, founded a military colony naming it Miglionico. Milon had great walls built, as the phrase "Milo Magnus Miles Me Munivit Magnis Muris" recalls, whose seven Ms are today represented in the town’s coat of arms.
The historic center holds the Mother Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, a Pontifical Basilica since 1051, housing an impressive polyptych by Cima da Conegliano (1499) and a wooden Crucifix from 1629 by Umile da Petralia, which inspired Mel Gibson for the film The Passion of the Christ, filmed in Matera.
Roberta Mansueto is an independent curator and activist in the conservation of plant biodiversity. From 2014 to 2019, she co-founded Tile project space (Milan), a space for research and promotion of contemporary art, and she is the creator of several independent initiatives, such as takecare, a project that investigates the practice of writing, between performative research and independent publishing, and Orto Fertile, a collective focused on researching and preserving ethnobotanical knowledge in Puglia. Since 2020, she has been co-founder of Salgemma, a curatorial and communication project based in Puglia, dedicated to enhancing and promoting artistic and cultural research within the region. For Una Boccata d’Arte in Basilicata, she curated projects by artists Hanne Lippard in Grottole (2022), Arianna Pace in Rivello (2023), Giulio Locatelli in Sasso di Castalda (2024).