IL CAOS_#3 conflicts, curated by Raffaele Ga tvhaer rinoa. uguration IL CAOS is an exhibitory project promoted by Società San Servolo Servizi in collaboration with the Provincia di Venezia, carried out over the course of three years, with three exhibitions which each time consider themes essential to the life of our society: that of work in 2009, migration in 2010 and this year that of conflicts.

The trilogy is dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini and takes its title from the column which the poet wrote from the 6th of August, 1968, to the 24th January, 1974 in the weekly magazine “Tempo” and which followed an earlier theme which had been presented in the preceding column “Dialogues with Pasolini”, which the author and director had written for “Vie Nuove”. This represented a fundamental and complex moment both in the life of Paolini and Italian society. A profound crisis had begun with the new development of capitalism and the trauma of 1968 and Pasolini offered a deep and illuminating opinion on the happenings of that time. Naturally the nature of our times is much different, as are the events which mark it, but notwithstanding this there are many similarities and analogous tensions which allow one to reflect on those pages and on those thoughts which Pasolini succinctly and bravely insisted on. For around twenty years now art has changed its approach to the world, choosing to concentrate on a comprehension of reality and of the reporting of the most complex and contradictory aspects of our society. Particularly in the last decade there has been a movement of its field of action from a more aesthetic dimension to a more ethical one, finding a new role and new function in our complex current environment.

The trilogy Caos intends to be a witness to this state of art, confronting in an explicit manner social and ethical situations and themes, via the work of those artists who are working specifically in this field.