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Between silence and noise there is spectrum of different possibilities: this is the object of a new exhibition called "Noise: a hole in the silence" starting tomorrow, 27th February, at the Spazio Oberdan in Milano. The exhibit is sponsored by the Milano Province and is curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Gwy Mandelinck. It is based on a arts and poetry event which took place in Belgium last summer and which brought together works of art of 22 international artists, such as Joseph Beuys, John Cage, William Kentridge, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Yoko Ono.

"Visitors are invited to "listen" to the sounds which the works on display express by different means: though laughter or a gust of wind" the curators explain

The result is a feeling of bewilderment given by the presence of stimuli and sounds that fill the rooms where videos are screened. The video by Mungo Thomson "The American Desert" presents the classic scenario of the Wile E. Coyote cartoons, without its main characters though, which gives the atmosphere a mysterious touch. Mircea Cantor instead films a wolf and a deer that gaze at each other in a closed room. Between the two the documentary on the three days spent by Joseph Beuys in a cage with a coyote.

Among other works of art are Yoko Ono's 118 bottles filled with transparent liquid. On each bottle is the name of different personalities: Napoleon, Kafka, Kurt Cobain, Socrates, Pirandello, Virginia Woolf.

The exhibit will continue until May the 25th.