Futile Cycles: Boggiano

Havana, Visiones compartidas, curated by José Fernández, 15th Havana Biennial, Horizontes compartidos, Casa de África, November 2024

Havana, Visiones compartidas, curated by José Fernández, 15th Havana Biennial, Horizontes compartidos, Casa de África, November 2024

Havana, Visiones compartidas, curated by José Fernández, 15th Havana Biennial, Horizontes compartidos, Casa de África, November 2024

Havana, Visiones compartidas, curated by José Fernández, 15th Havana Biennial, Horizontes compartidos, Casa de África, November 2024

Havana, Visiones compartidas, curated by José Fernández, 15th Havana Biennial, Horizontes compartidos, Casa de África, November 2024

Naples, Pero está por ahí, ¿no?, Video screening, Morra Greco Foundation, March 2024

Havana, Pero está por ahí, ¿no?, Video screening, National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba, Edificio de Arte Universal, March 2023

Casablanca, Tales from the Water Margins, curated by Christine Eyene, 4th International Biennial of Casablanca, Villa des Arts, October 2018

Casablanca, Tales from the Water Margins, curated by Christine Eyene, 4th International Biennial of Casablanca, Villa des Arts, October 2018

Casablanca, Tales from the Water Margins, curated by Christine Eyene, 4th International Biennial of Casablanca, Villa des Arts, October 2018

Havana, Visiones compartidas, Set up of the exhibition, November 2024

Havana, Visiones compartidas, Set up of the exhibition, November 2024

Havana, Estrategias del olvido, Artist talk, Unpack/La Casa de la Salamandra, July 2024

Naples, Memorie controverse della schiavitù: la Storia e le storie, Artist talk with Giulia Grechi and Pasquale Napolitano, Morra Greco Foundation, March 2024

Naples, Memorie controverse della schiavitù: la Storia e le storie, Artist talk with Giulia Grechi and Pasquale Napolitano, Morra Greco Foundation, March 2024

Savona, Vedere la Storia, Workshop, Ceramic Museum of Savona, January 2024

Jesi, Eredi Boggiano, Book presentation with Sara Tassi, Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi Foundation/Palazzo Bisaccioni, November 2023

Malaga, Herederos Boggiano, Artist talk, University of Malaga – Faculty of Fine Arts, May 2023

London, History, Art and Strategies of Intervention: Boggiano Heirs, Book launch with Christine Eyene and Mark Sealy, University of the Arts London – London College of Communication, May 2023

Ancona, Eredi Boggiano. La storia come azione artistica, Book presentation with Massimo Raffaeli, Mole Vanvitelliana, May 2023

Mexico City, Herederos Boggiano. La historia como acción artística, Artist talk with Benjamín Mayer Foulkes, Exit La Librería, May 2023

Arlington (Texas), Boggiano Heirs: The Intersection of Art and History, Lecture, The University of Texas Arlington, April 2023

Genoa, Eredi Boggiano: La storia come azione artistica, Book presentation with Amina Gaia Abdelouahab, Contemporary Art Museum of Villa Croce, April 2023

Havana, Herederos Boggiano, Book presentation with Yainet Rodríguez, Palacio del Segundo Cabo/Centre for the Interpretation of Cultural Relations Cuba – Europe, February 2023 (Photo by Nestor Martí)

Trinidad de Cuba, Herederos Boggiano, Book presentation, Heritage Documentation Center Casa Malibrán, February 2023

Havana, Herederos Boggiano, Book launch with Dannys Monte de Oca, 31st International Book Fair of Havana, Colegio San Gerónimo, February 2023

Trieste, Eredi Boggiano: La storia come azione artistica, Book presentation with Giuliana Carbi, Trieste Contemporanea/Studio Tommaseo, January 2023

Turin, Eredi Boggiano: La storia come azione artistica, Book presentation with Gabi Scardi, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, January 2023

Turin, Eredi Boggiano: La storia come azione artistica, Book presentation with Gabi Scardi, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, January 2023

Belgrade, Futile Cycles: Historical Research as Artistic Action, Seminar and Workshop, University of Arts in Belgrade, May 2022

Rivoli, Pero está por ahí, ¿no?, Video editing (Alberto Ruffino), December 2019

Mexico City, Futile Cycles Boggiano, Seminar and Workshop, National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking – ENPEG La Esmeralda, September 2019

Polo Viejo, Alberto Ortiz, June 2019

Tres Palmas, Rosa Reboso, June 2019

Camerano, Production of the resin parts, D’Addario art foundry, August 2019

Camerano, Production of the resin parts, D’Addario art foundry, August 2019

Camerano, Production of the resin parts, D’Addario art foundry, August 2019

Trinidad, Research presentation, February 2019

Casablanca, Futile Cycles Boggiano, Artist talk, Higher School of Fine Art – ESBA, October 2018

Casablanca, Tales from the Water Margins, Set up of the exhibition, October 2018

Casablanca, Tales from the Water Margins, Set up of the exhibition, October 2018

Casablanca, Tales from the Water Margins, Set up of the exhibition, October 2018

Casablanca, Tales from the Water Margins, Set up of the exhibition, October 2018

Casablanca, Tales from the Water Margins, Set up of the exhibition, October 2018

Havana, Meeting with Eusebio Leal, February 2018 (Photo by Piero Ottaviano)

Havana, Research meeting, February 2018 (Photo by Piero Ottaviano)

Havana, Research meeting, February 2018 (Photo by Piero Ottaviano)

Trinidad, Research meeting, February 2018 (Photo by Piero Ottaviano)

Trinidad, Research meeting, February 2018 (Photo by Piero Ottaviano)

Futile Cycles Boggiano seeks the origins of a Ligurian family name spread throughout the Caribbean: nowadays, hundreds of Cuban citizens bear the surname Boggiano because they descend from the slaves of the coffee plantation that Antonio Boggiano had on the hills between Puriales and Polo Viejo, near Trinidad de Cuba.

The project includes the creation of a video, a wall installation and an artist’s book.

About Futile Cycles Boggiano

 

This project began in November 2017, immediately after the volume on Gaggini went to press. The first findings came a few years earlier, however, because the first time I went to Trinidad to look for documents about Antonio Boggiano was in 2014. At the time, I had no idea of what I might find. When I learnt that there was a person in Trinidad with this surname, I thought of a descendant of the ancient emigrant I was interested in. It was in February 2014, soon after meeting with Francisco Boggiano, that I drew the first family trees of the Boggianos. It was an instinctive reaction to the sense of confusion I was getting from all those names Francisco was listing. There were two trees: that of his family and that of some of Paco Boggiano’s descendants. Years later this kind of depiction would become the pattern for the large installation that, together with the video and the book, constitutes Futile Cycles: Boggiano.

© Cristiano Berti

2024

The question that lies at the heart of this book and of the whole art project is what to do with the heritage that one has been given, whether we are discussing the Boggiano clan, you the writer and inheritor of a certain history or historical mystery and an Italian culture that frames this mystery, and me, someone who has inherited an ambiguous and conflicted Caribbean legacy. I mostly turned away from that original inheritance because I grew up in the United States and it seemed to me more crucial to try understand, learn from, and ultimately critique the culture of my adopted country.

You turned toward the mystery of the Boggianos to see what they could tell you about the wider developments within the Caribbean. I think it’s valuable that you have uncovered a hushed history of entrepreneurship, travel, exploitation, enslavement, aspiration, intermixing of cultures and ethnicities, and laborious self-possession. You’ve turned toward the question of what to do and answered as a researcher who means to put the history in a form that is legible and logical to other audiences. And you’ve turned toward the question as an artist, teasing out the profound and curious threads of the Boggiano story to examine them as meaningful creative activities. You have said: “art is giving meaning to things, to existence, through what is of no use”. I would put it slightly differently: Art gives meaning to us through the creation of non-utilitarian objects that are in turn profoundly invested with meaning in the acts of research, design, and construction.

© Seph Rodney

excerpt from Rodney, Seph and Cristiano Berti, «Beyond the Names, the Stories», in Cristiano Berti, Boggiano Heirs, Macerata: Quodlibet (ISBN: 978-88-229-2118-5), 2023, pp. 234 – 235

El archivo entra en mi obra de dos maneras diferentes. Hice un uso extensivo de los archivos históricos. Ésta fue la primera y más obvia forma de relacionarse con la noción de archivo: como colección de documentos y como institución cultural que opera en el presente, así como producto de un complejo de convenciones sociales e ideológicas arraigadas en un pasado lejano. Haberme centrado en este último aspecto, es decir, que la documentación conservada en los archivos históricos es lo que queda de un sistema de poder administrativo, me convenció de la imposibilidad de contar las historias de los primeros Boggiano cubanos. Así nació la idea del vídeo, y aunque no respondía exclusivamente a esta petición, el vídeo estaba fuertemente impregnado de mi deseo de trabajar sobre la ausencia incurable de estas voces. Sólo después de haberlo realizado me di cuenta de que al moverme por la sierra de Trinidad yo mismo había creado un archivo de imágenes y palabras. Y ésta es la segunda manera que me he relacionado con la noción de archivo.

© Cristiano Berti

excerpt from Acosta Damas, Maribel, «Herederos Boggiano de Cristiano Berti: una mirada a la cubanidad desde el arte de archivo», Culturales, Cubaenresumen.org, September 8, 2023

Description

Antonio Boggiano arrived in Cuba in 1796. He settled in Trinidad, a city on the Caribbean coast of the island, at that time undergoing a phase of great productive and commercial expansion. He quickly made his fortune, trading in colonial goods and even serving as a consignee for French slave ships. He was thus able to purchase ships, houses and land. His coffee plantation, first mentioned in an 1809 document, was one of the largest in the area and came to have up to 130 slaves. It was customary for slaves to take on the master’s surname and to change it when they were resold. For this reason, the labor force at the Nuestra Señora de la Misericordia plantation had the surname Boggiano and had to replace it with the surname of the new owner Diego Julián Sánchez when the plantation was sold in 1857. Cuban citizens bearing the surname Boggiano are thus the descendants of the small number of people who were able to buy their freedom by paying their own price to the owner.

The project included the creation of a video, a wall installation and an artist’s book. In the video, some stories collected by the author in the Polo Viejo area intersect with the conversation of a group of Boggiano cousins at the end of a lunch. The wall installation consists of large family trees that have people born in Africa at the apex, and recently born children at the base. The installation is formed by painted resin elements and integrates twenty-two oval-shaped photographic portraits taken in 2018. Similar to the previous volume on Gaggini, the book is a historical essay. It consists of twelve chapters followed by an extensive section of documentary sources and by a dialogue between the artist and the art critic and author Seph Rodney.

In 2021, Eredi Boggiano editorial project won the tenth edition of Italian Council, the program for the international promotion of Italian contemporary art. The book was published in Italian by Quodlibet in 2022. The following year the same publishing house released the English and Spanish translations (Boggiano HeirsHerederos Boggiano).

Details

Futile Cycles: Boggiano (2018-2024): Wall installation, one video and an artist’s book

Tree of Liberata and León (2018-2024), Tree of Rosa and Francisco (2024) and Tree of Concordia and José María: Photographs, resin frames, cardboard, variable dimensions

Pero está por ahí, ¿no? (2020): Video, 35:00

Book (paperback with flaps): Eredi Boggiano, including a conversation with Seph Rodney, Macerata: Quodlibet (ISBN: 978-88-229-2008-9), 2022, pp. 256; Herederos Boggiano, translated from Italian by María Teresa D’Meza Pérez e Rodrigo Molina-Zavalía, Macerata: Quodlibet, pp. 272 (ISBN: 978-88-229-2066-9); Boggiano Heirs, translated from Italian by Margot Gover, Macerata: Quodlibet, pp. 264 (ISBN: 978-88-229-2118-5)

 

Photographs by Piero Ottaviano

Historical investigation collaboration by Ada Almeira Bravo

 

Acknowledgements:

The fifty-six people from Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Slovakia who participated in the crowdfunding campaign to produce this work (2018). Project collaborators Giulia Angelini, Roberto Carboni, Fabiola Carulli, Andrea Cognigni, Denissa Gligor, Eleni Kougioumoutzaki, Chiara Lo Re, Daniela Montedoro, Naïssa Pequignot-Zerkoum, Chiara Ruzziconi, Antonella Soldovieri, Sara Strazisar, Nazarena Tremonti

altroQuale, Jesi, Municipality of Jesi, and Marche Region, Italy

 

The project for the international edition of the artist’s book Eredi Boggiano was supported by the Italian Council (10th edition, 2021), program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture

Group exhibitions

2024

Visiones compartidas, curated by José Fernández, 15th Havana Biennial, Horizontes compartidos, Casa de África, Havana, Cuba

 

2018

Tales from the Water Margins, curated by Christine Eyene, 4th International Biennial of Casablanca, Villa des Arts, Casablanca, Morocco

Screenings

2024

Pero está por ahí, ¿no?, video screening (July 31), La Casa de la Salamandra, Havana, Cuba
Pero está por ahí, ¿no?, video screening (March 21) in Pedagogie per disimparare, Morra Greco Foundation, Naples, Italy

 

2023
Pero está por ahí, ¿no?, video screening (March 3), Hemicycle of the Edificio de Arte Universal, National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba, Havana, Cuba

Artist talks (I)

2025

Monumento viviente, artist talk (March 11), Museo Casa de África, Havana, Cuba

 

2024

Estrategias del olvido, artist talk (July 31), Unpack/La Casa de la Salamandra, Havana, Cuba
Memorie controverse della schiavitù: la Storia e le storie, artist talk (March 21) with Giulia Grechi and Pasquale Napolitano, in Pedagogie per disimparare, Morra Greco Foundation, Naples, Italy

 

2023

Eredi Boggiano, book presentation (November 18) with Sara Tassi, Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi Foundation/Palazzo Bisaccioni, Jesi, Italy

Eredi Boggiano, book presentation (October 21) with Marco Genzone and Livia Savorelli, Civic Art Gallery, Savona, Italy

Herederos Boggiano, artist talk (May 26), University of Malaga – Faculty of Fine Arts, Malaga, Spain

History, Art and Strategies of Intervention: Boggiano Heirs, book launch (May 16) with Christine Eyene and Mark Sealy, University of the Arts London – London College of Communication, London, United Kingdom

Artist talks (II)

2023

Eredi Boggiano. La storia come azione artistica, book presentation (May 10) with Massimo Raffaeli, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy

Herederos Boggiano. La historia como acción artística, book presentation (May 3) with Benjamín Mayer Foulkes, Exit La Librería, Mexico City, Mexico

Eredi Boggiano. La storia come azione artistica, book presentation (April 6) with Amina Gaia Abdelouahab, Contemporary Art Museum of Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy

La historia como acción artística, artist talk (March 3) with Jorge Fernández, National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba, Havana, Cuba

Herederos Boggiano, book presentation (March 2) with Yainet Rodríguez, Palacio del Segundo Cabo/Centre for the Interpretation of Cultural Relations Cuba – Europe, Havana, Cuba

Herederos Boggiano, book presentation (February 24), Heritage Documentation Center Casa Malibrán, Trinidad, Cuba

Herederos Boggiano, book launch (February 18) with Dannys Monte de Oca, 31st International Book Fair of Havana, Colegio San Gerónimo, Havana, Cuba

Eredi Boggiano. La storia come azione artistica, book presentation (February 15) with Viviana Gravano, Goethe-Institut, Rome, Italy

Eredi Boggiano. La storia come azione artistica, book presentation (January 13) with Giuliana Carbi, Trieste Contemporanea/Studio Tommaseo, Trieste, Italy

Eredi Boggiano. La storia come azione artistica, book presentation (January 12) with Gabi Scardi, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin, Italy

 

2022

Eredi Boggiano. La storia come azione artistica, book presentation (December 15) with Lorenzo Balbi, Modern Art Museum of Bologna – MAMbo, Bologna, Italy

Eredi Boggiano. La storia come azione artistica, book launch (November 6), 29th Artissima Fair Book Corner/Oval Lingotto Fiere, Turin, Italy

 

2018

Futile Cycles Boggiano, artist talk (October 27), Higher School of Fine Art – ESBA, Casablanca, Morocco

Lectures and workshops

2025

Ciclos fútiles. La historia como acción artística, seminar (March 20), Higher Institute of Art – ISA University of the Arts, Havana, Cuba

 

2024

Vedere la Storia, workshop (January 19), in Connexxion Festival, Ceramic Museum of Savona, Savona, Italy

 

2023

Boggiano Heirs: The Intersection of Art and History, lecture (April 27), The University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, USA

 

2022

Eredi Boggiano. La storia come azione artistica, seminar (December 6), Macerata Academy of Fine Arts, Macerata, Italy

La storia come azione artistica, seminar (November 24), University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Futile Cycles: Historical Research as Artistic Action, seminar and workshop (May 10 – 13), University of Arts in Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Ciclos fútiles. La investigación histórica como acción artística, seminar (February 22), Higher Institute of Art – ISA University of the Arts, Havana, Cuba

 

2019

Futile Cycles Boggiano, seminar and workshop (September 9 – 12), in Taller de artista invitado, National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking – ENPEG La Esmeralda, Mexico City, Mexico

 

2018

Futile Cycles, seminar and workshop (September 26 – 27), University of Malaga – Faculty of Fine Arts, Malaga, Spain

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2023

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2022

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