This year’s title recalls an interview with Long dated 1 July 2003 published in the magazine “The Art Newspaper”. When asked about the criteria for choosing the destinations of his legendary walks, the artist replied: “love for a specific place”; but, more precisely, Take me to the place I love winks at the words of Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers in the famous song Under the Bridge, where the singer asks “to be taken to the place he loves”, Los Angeles of his affections, to overcome one of the darkest periods of his life.
The artists invited to the PAC tell or portray a real, metaphorical, metaphysical or imaginary place amidst fascinations, introspections and critical insights, declining their own poetics in very different terms, which concerns themes such as immersion in nature, memory and mythologies places, man’s relationship with the environment, climate and politics.
With the participation of: Dorothy Cross, Lara Almarcegui, Marta Dell’Angelo, Ettore Favini and Antonio Rovaldi, Flatform, Richard Long, Francesco Simeti, Melanie Smith, Ilaria Abbiento.
