101 Allegorie per rappresentare il mondo
from 26/6/2010 to 14/9/2010
The exhibition of painting, installation, photography and mixed media, was created as a melodrama, between which lines and images, blend the focus from a literary and cinema narrative model, which plays on the vision of the movie “100 allegories to represent the world “ by director Peter Greenway, one of the most important filmmakers of contemporary British cinema, and a few sentences of the book “Psyche and Techne” of the Italian famous philosopher Umberto Galimberti.
During the opening the performance by Massimiliano Manieri from Lecce, Italy entitled “Memory of land”. The performance focus on relation to the death of the object and the sense of loss (Baudrillard’s words) but add the concept, start a piece where he represents the same object and the subject of desire. Nature and artifice, the body as food and power and practice of selection, use value and exchange value, biodiversity and mass culture. On these concepts joins the search for the performative act, the dichotomy of Obedience & Amp, man as symbol-image, alienated from the industrial society. A provocation seized on the change from quality to quantity, technical equipment of the media.
Among the Galimberti’s word, the curator chose 101 sentences, inviting artists to represent them in a visual way. As Dadais games the artists have drawn from this extraordinary symbolic dictionary with a variety of concepts and linguistic forms. The American artist Pam Longobardi complaint consumer society, understood as empty values with its “mirrors not reflecting on Sappho” made of black plastic recovered on beaches in the world. Fernando De Filippi, from Lecce, is inspired by nature time, with the works “My arms are the abode of the spirits of the air”. Madness, played in informal pictorial symbolism of Donato Bruno Leo from Brindisi, in his recent series of island looks, and the surreal reality in “Metropolis” of Beijing Yu Zhaoyang in constant desire to over the limits.
The exhibition unfolds in a series of interpretations that unhinge the values of the affluent society, through a diverse and clever metaphor for the present time, where the technique has become the environment that surrounds us and gives us those rules of rationality that are measured on the criteria of efficiency and functionality.
This exhibition aims to review the concepts of individual identity and, through allegories and words that represent the disenchantment of the new world. On the technical is our world the photos of Belgian MattBed, with man lives a difference, the drag queen symbolizing lust (series deadly sins) by Dario Manco. Identity and recognition in the countryside artifacts of young English Helen Saunders, and the culture as a condition of existence in the photographs of Japan artist Motohiko Hasui.
Reflecting on memory and its loss, the dictionary of allegorical by Margherita Levo Rosenberg with her “lacunar Memory 1” to represents the wholeness of life and the presence mnesic. On fate and coincidence on the Kismet (a kind of window on the Muslim world) the work of the American Elisabeth Louy, reflecting on the concept of the abyss of madness (with Ode to Ceres) and Masai ethnic rituals of the body as a representation of the soul. The self and the world in photographs on silk “Almost in the dark” of the Polish Gabriela Morawetz, while the association between waste and keep the “machinations” by Vito Sardano, based on the principle of difference between man and symbol and symbol of perception.
Language as the orientation of the drives and as a cure, the paintings of French artist Nine Rolland and Turkish artist Pinar Selimoglu. The birth of psychology of the mind, the works of the Australian Marnie Pitts. Most ironic art research by Olga Suarez and Peter De Boer, the paradox of war and the primacy of the history of cosmography. On Kundera's book “Unbearable Lightness of Being” the sculpture made of polystyrene of duch Cor Fafiani. On solitude and silence, the black and white photographs of Paolo Di Giosia, on faith and eroticism, the installation “Organ Symphony” by Massimiliano Manieri.
And yet, with nostalgia and innocence of the early first games of beach in the paintings of the Florentine Monica Branchetti and finally the ordeal of the spirit, instinct as law and the fetishism of the system the work Crux by the Venezuelan Carlos Anzola artist, made with images of men and women abandoned to a fate of inevitable death and pain.
To keep in philosophical and conceptual theme, culminating in a sentence by Galimberti: “From this unusual landscape, announcing a freedom different, not that of the ruler who dominates his kingdom, but paradoxically one of the traveler who does not dominate even the his life”.
The Artist
CARLOS ANZOLA - Venezuela
MATTBED – Belgium
MONICA BRANCHETTI – Italy
PETER DE BOER – The Netherlands
FERNANDO DE FILIPPI – Italy
PAOLO DI GIOSIA – Italy
COR FAFIANI – The Netherlands
MOTOHIKO HASUI – Japan
PAM LONGOBARDI – Georgia
DONATO BRUNO LEO - Italy
MARGHERITA LEVO ROSENBERG - Italy
ELISABETH LOUY – Spain
DARIO MANCO – Italy
MASSIMILIANO MANIERI – Italy
GABRIELA MORAWETZ - France
MARNIE PITTS – Australia
NINE ROLLAND – France
VITO SARDANO - Italy
HELEN SAUNDERS – UK
PINAR SELIMOGLU – Turkey
OLGA SUAREZ – France
YU ZHAOYANG – China
Photo Gallery
Piano
