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At The Circle in Gorizia, the exhibition Über die Linie / Oltre la linea / Čez črto brings into dialogue the works of Manuela Sedmach and Ivan Crico, two artists born and raised on a border – Trieste and Gorizia – who have long explored the meaning of limits, time, and the human condition. The art project is curated by QuiAltrove ETS, based in Gorizia, is a cultural association that promotes an open and participatory culture through contemporary art,
The title refers to Ernst Jünger’s 1950 essay, written for Martin Heidegger’s sixtieth birthday, where nihilism is seen as an era in which everything tends to dissolve into “nothing.” Heidegger’s response was not to escape, but to “remain by the line”: to face the void, to endure it, and to transform it. In this spirit, Sedmach and Crico place their art as thresholds to cross and spaces of meditation.
Through canvases, works on paper and wood, their material and slow painting practice evokes the coexistence of multiple temporalities within the present. The works resonate with urgent questions of our time: technological dominance, the loss of wonder, and the risk of flattening differences into indistinction. Against this backdrop, their practice becomes a radical, intimate act of resistance – restoring meaning and dedication to being.
The exhibition also connects with GO!2025 – Nova Gorica and Gorizia European Capital of Culture, embodying its vision of turning borders into spaces of encounter. Über die Linie is not only an aesthetic project but also a laboratory of dialogue between visual arts, philosophy, poetry, and music, as shown by the parallel events – from the inaugural concert to the evening with Friulian poet Antonella Bukovaz, accompanied by trumpeter Sandro Carta.
The exhibition will conclude on 29 August with a special encounter: Ivan Crico will lead visitors through the works in a guided tour, closing symbolically this journey “beyond the line,” toward new possibilities of imagination and shared horizons.
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Manuela Sedmach (Trieste, 1953). A graduate of the State Institute of Art, she began her artistic research in the 1970s.
In 1999 she was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in New York. She has held solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums across Europe, the United States, and China. Since 1992, she has collaborated with Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Beijing, Paris, and Cuba. In 2021 she moved to Braga, Portugal.
She is represented by Galeria Nuno Centeno in Porto and Spazio Trart in Trieste. Her works are included in major private collections in Europe, the United States, and Japan, as well as in the S.M.A.K. Museum in Ghent. Literature—particularly Russian—and essays are an integral part of her work; she regards Tarkovsky and Pasternak as two of her greatest masters.
Ivan Crico (Gorizia, 1968) is a visual artist and poet. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, he has exhibited widely in Italy and abroad, recognized for his intense painterly research deeply tied to the memory of places and the relationship between light and matter.
In 2018, he presented the multimedia project Lost in the main hall of the Macro Museum in Rome. Alongside his painting practice, he has developed a significant poetic career, with works awarded, translated, and studied by leading critics such as Giorgio Agamben. He has also edited and translated works by major Italian authors, including Pier Paolo Pasolini, consolidating his role as a key figure in the contemporary cultural landscape.
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