‘What’s Happening!!’ is the title of the event and show in Umberto Polazzo’s miniature ‘Elliptical Theatre’ in Sanguinetto, Verona.

The theater will be open for the duration of ArtVerona, Veronafiere's event dedicated to modern and contemporary art (Oct. 11-13, www.artverona.it) from 6-10:30 p.m.

The curatorship focuses on a strongly psychological and philosophical concept, with a reference to Freud's "the disturbing" or 'Das Unheimliche'. This term describes that uncanny feeling we experience when something familiar takes on an alienating, almost threatening aspect, or when we encounter elements that are both familiar and unfamiliar.

The place itself, the small 'Elliptical Theater' suggests an unconventional structure, a theater that could play with form and space to create an effect of disorientation. The elliptical shape could symbolically represent continuous movement, cyclicality and ambiguity, revolving around complex themes, and not following a linear narrative path.

Artists are invited to explore not only what may seem familiar but also disturbing and to confront the concept of divided identity: the difficulty of coinciding with oneself or perceiving a gap between who we are and who we think we are. This leads to the investigation of 'in-between spaces,' those transitional places where reality merges with the enigmatic.

The aim is to push artists to delve into the folds of reality, where logic mixes with the surreal and certainty with doubt, generating an experience that invites reflection on the complexity of perception and identity.

Invited artists: Antonio Franchetti, Innocente, Dis Berlin, Alessandra Pescetta, Giovanni Battista Bacilieri, Ralph Hall, Elisabetta Gambarin, Luciana Soriato, ScivoloGiú (Selene Tenca, Benedetta Cammarota, Tommaso Bolzoni), Jo X, Spera-Ingham, Iolanda Martini, Umberto Polazzo.

It is a unique opportunity to be able to see both the 'Elliptical Theater ' and the Secret Garden, a peculiar and disorienting Unicum.

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE POLAZZO THEATER
At an indeterminate time, around the early 1980s, two friends, Umberto Polazzo (a practicing visionary) and Giuseppe Tommasi (an architect), found themselves in Sanguinetto. Observing the places adjacent to a convent they are drawn to a neglected garden. In a shared psychotropic vision, the two fantasize about its resurrection, which, realized, finds new lifeblood culminating in a theatrical epiphany.