Opening 16+17 November: Luca Vitone ‘Nothing to Say, Just to Be’, at isle_amsterdam

isle_amsterdam / Atelier Emily Bates cordially invites you to the exhibition:

Luca Vitone

NOTHING TO SAY, JUST TO BE

16 + 17 November

13 – 18:00 hours

The artist will be present on both days.

The exhibition Nulla da dire solo da essere / Nothing To Say, Just To Be,

is an installation of a work of the same title from 2004,

comprised of 21 embroidered wool cloth flags.

The work is a seminal piece from his oeuvre, quoting Piero Manzoni,

hung in the heights of isle_amsterdam.

Additional drawings from the project will also be on view.

The installation can be viewed by appointment and during special events* and gatherings, until 8 December.

* the Cosy Concert Series continues:

Perpetual Bike Crash, 19 November.

Seamus Cater on voice and Rhodes piano, 30 November.

More details and tickets will be available shortly.

Please contact me if you would like to receive information or to reserve.

We have very limited capacity!

isle_amsterdam is proud to announce and invite you to the first exhibition in the Netherlands by prominent Italian visual artist Luca Vitone. Vitone is part of a generation of Italian artists that emerged during the late 80’s, resuming dialogues with Arte Povera and conceptual art movements.

His investigations into place and space, the un-documented, the forgotten, or the cast out, often relate to nomadic and ethnic minority communities as well as his own personal or ancestral path. Cartography, recipes and folk music traditions line the way. Mapping spaces, journeys, and creating flags as markers and identifiers, Vitone gives voice to the peripheral margins, margins and their communities that continue to be written, erased and rewritten.

isle_amsterdam is very excited and honoured to present the piece here, and within this time in history.

Documentation image courtesy the artist and Casino Luxembourg.

Based between Berlin and Milan, Luca Vitone is represented by Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin-Köln-München; and Galerie Michel Rein, Paris-Bruxelles.

Luca Vitones’ works has been shown extensively across Europe, including with MAXXI and MACRO in Rome, PAC Milan, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Kunsthalle Vienna, and Casino Luxembourg.

In 2025 he will present solo exhibitions with Galerie Michel Rein in Paris (31 January – 22 March), Laboratorio degli Angeli, Bologna (February), Fondazione La Rocca, Pescara (28 March – 14 June), and Galerie Rolando Anselmi in Rome (opening 18 October 2025).

Luca Vitone and Emily Bates first met during their 3 month residency as Affiliated Visual Art Fellows at the American Academy in Rome, in the autumn of 2008. Coincidentally, both had prior to this been commissioned for solo exhibitions at Casino Luxembourg by Enrico Lunghi, (former director of Mudam Luxembourg).

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isle_amsterdam is an initiative by artist Emily Bates.

isle_amsterdam is hosted within the artists’ studio, as an intimate gathering space for sharing and entwining threads of research and communities, through exhibitions, concerts, talks, dinners and workshops.

isle_amsterdam is located within Atelier WG at Pavilion 18 / Vrouwen Kliniek, part of the former Wilhelmina hospital in Amsterdam.

isle_amsterdam Marius van Bouwdijk Bastiaansestraat 105, 1054 RV Amsterdam.

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