lunedì 5 ottobre 2009

domenica 27 settembre 2009

Marika Maiarova

















House of water
Memory Instinct in a Digital Era Clarifying and documenting what we remember and experience, and from that to create and attempt to influence.
Curator: Pietro Franesi

Jason N. Miller

UPC SEX
Curator:
Pietro Franesi

BRIGITTA ROSSETTI

Finally You
(Installation)
Curator: Pietro Franesi
Artist: Brigitta Rossetti
The Book of Creation.
A book as the result of the process of creation before a painting.
A huge precious book (1m x 1m) made of paper, where the whole creative irrational process is documented before the final painting.
The book will be on the floor closed.
Who want can open and read it, it is the purpose.
There will be inside drawing, poetries, sketches, scribbles photos and links.
There will be also empty pages.
Some pages will be written by other people interacting with the process of creation.
In some pages there will be holes that postpone to images through the discovery of the most depth meaning.

Installation
The installation is composed by the Book of Creation, by some sheets of paper disposed from the book to the wall, where the approach of painting takes form in different and opposite way.
Some small sculptures and material found by chance which was inspiring the artist, and a short video of the process.
The wall will be white with the signs and spots of color following the contour of a painting, which is not over there.
Which doesn’t exist yet.

Subject
Mystery of the existence, never able to reaches that Finally You?
Liberty to interpret the creative message and to turn it into different ways
Acceptance of different realities to compare, with elasticity, opposite to “a solo meaning”
Discovering the importance of the process of creation, metaphor of life, rather than just the result, the final end
How much can be more and more fascinating and interesting an incomplete piece, left uncompleted for years, for ever?
Where the artist doesn't turn his gesture into final solution but leaves it growing and evolving where the signs have a lot to say, where the materials allow other creative actions and thinking. Never ending process.

Support
Paper, cardboard, sculptures in clay, plaster, wood.
Video.
Material found on the road.













Biography
Brigitta Rossetti, born in Piacenza on 24-02-1974.
She obtained her degree in Modern Arts at the University of Pavia, with Angelo Stella, 110/110, presenting a thesis on the diacritical study of the Promessi Sposi by A. Manzoni kept in the National Braidense Library in Milan.
At a very tender age, her love for art and an uncommon spirit of observation urged her to search for the truths of the universe. Poetry is the mother of “flights” into the unknown, she sings and changes them into moments of fullness, whether they bring joy or suffering.
Painting is the daughter of poetry, where a poetic weave shines through in apparent simplicity, inscrutable, depicting parallel realities.
The artist also specializes in studying multimedia communications, obtaining her MEM at the Polytechnic College of Milan. As a result her artistic approach sees the creation of videos and installations like, for example, Flower presented at the Ferrara Biennial in November 2008.
As a poetess and painter, Brigitta Rossetti completed an artistic catalogue “Stelle senza Lato” (Stars with no Sides), MMC Editions in 2008;
At the International “Ali Penna D’Autore” she was chosen for an award for her contribution to the Anthology “Le Migliori Poesie della Religione Cristiana” (The Best Poems of the Christian Religion) and received a mention of honour plus the addition of other poems in the Anthology “I Classici Della Letteratura Italiana” (The Classics of Italian Literature) in 2008-2009; co-authoress in the essay “Investire in Cina” (Investing in China), Publisher Rubettino, in 2006; she was chosen at the Monza poetry competition with a publication in the “Antologia del Premio Letterario Città di Monza” (Anthology of the Monza Literary Award) in 2000.
From among numerous painters, she was chosen to be part of the Mega Art cultural association, run by Claudio Giulianelli.
She was asked to paint paintings as an award for the journalists Gaetano Rizzuto, director of the daily paper Libertà, and Alberto Schieppati, director of Food & Beverage in July 2008, and Luigi Cremona and Emanuele Galba, director of the daily paper Cronaca in 2009.
Some of Brigitta Rossetti paintings have been bought by Ruggero Jannuzzelli, benefactor,
who collects the works of important contemporary artists in his Montesegale castle.
In November 2008 the artist took part in the IV Ferrara Biennial with an installation video
and has been invited to take part in the VII Edition of the Florence Biennial in 2009. She Is working as an artist In the ZhouBrothers Art Center In Chicago.
She has reached the third place to the prize Italia Arte by Guido Folco, Torino 2009, and selected between the winner of the Environment Prize by Donato Coenna, Fiuggi 2009.

martedì 15 settembre 2009

Jo Tuck











Affronting the theme of Immaterialism
I like the ambiguity in the image of the runner in Towards the
light;is he running away from or towards something; may I suggest the
something is life.
The concept behind this artwork is, what is to be alive;how we fill
the gap between birth and death,the realisation of the emptiness of
inherent existence, dependent arising, causing the appearance of form,
the inevitable decay, the impermanebc of all.So what exactly do we
name?
Can we touch ourself, body conciousness ?.
A combination of both perhaps.
So if self is evasive and consiousness continuum wrapped in black and
white karma the only contemplatable ever changing stream of self has
little to gain claiming ownership of material objects, each form
imagined by our ever changing self.
So if art is about what it is to be human, the sense of longing and
loss, concepts of freedom spirituality immaterialism.
Art is unimportant next to life, creativity has as much to do with
experience, observation, and imagination, and if any one of these key
elemnets are missing, does it work?
Towards the Light, uses abstract and figurative elements to represent
mans never ending attempt to make sense of life........striving,the
runner, for a clear state of unburdened conciousness, catching a
glimpse of the human spirit struggling against the malaise of our soul
in our times.
The guiding principle is feeling. My paintings are begun through a
process of intuitive unpremeditated drawings or collage, and are
inspired by a particular event, places , , where figuration and
abstraction meet that is neither straightforwardly illustrational nor
expressionistic,
. Buddhism and the search for truth in a changing world has been one
of my constant themes. The painting Towards the LIght is 36 inches by
36, oil on canvas

Curator: Pietro Franesi

venerdì 11 settembre 2009

Sara Manzotti








The toys box

The box where the toys are placed whenever one has finished to play, a container in which the creative activity is temporarily put away, together with that reality that even though it appears suspended, it doesn't cease to exist. It is the most cherished and precious thing that a child has, like a drawing, that (sometimes) without any reference to the visible objects from which he is surrounded, he spontaneously gives with joy to those he loves most. Meanwhile he draws he lives his story.

Each toy/piece of art is a piece of a tale: an object, a painting, a photo, the music.

The most concrete reality is the fruit of abstraction, matter manipulated by the idea, by the feeling. Like a natural flow of water which nobody knows where it originates. We know the water because a definition was given to it, but we do not know who has created it.

The Creator is the wind, the breath, the heartbeat, the fertilization. It is the question that is aimed to the Sky.

Thus the artist, tired of semiotics, semantics, of abstraction and figurativism, already accepted his human form, doesn't want to enter in another shape, the artist; therefore he takes his creations (those which make feel himself very proud of) and arrange them in a box. The box is a means, not a limit for the art objects, which are instead the subjects.

They aren't pieces of a puzzle to be put together, but elements to be placed according to one's own liking and to be taken anywhere one wants to, beacause they belong to the recreational world.

Whoever stops to look at them, becomes attacted by their reference to the external world and by their colours, but, the more one dwells upon them, the more he starts to hear something: the silence and their inner sound. That freedom that the artist experiences when he becomes "Everything"; soon after the onlooker feels their candor, the lightheartedness, and little by little he wants to own them. He wants to have them all.

They remind him of his desires, the songs sung by the mother, the feelings.

Finally the artist can share his living and emotions, which are the same for everybody, and his happiness finds realization in this process of giving them to others.


Exhibitions

2009 “1000 Artisti a Palazzo”, Group Exhibition, Palazzo Arese Borromeo, Cesano Maderno, Italy

Rispettivamente Arte”, duo show, Sala Civica C. Levi, Desio, Italy

2008 "Painting and Graphic Art" solo show, Villa Vertua, Nova Milanese, Italy

2006 “Aesthetica Art Exhibition” at the Gateway to the Quarter, York, UK

Sara Manzotti Painting and Graphic Art “ solo show, Villa Tittoni Traversi, Desio, Italy

“ Hypegallery ”, Spazio Assab One, Milan, Italy

2005 “ Women’s Art Show 05 “, Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke, UK

“ Hypegallery ”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

“Lexmark European Art Competition 2004”, The Air Gallery, Dover Street, London, UK

“ Living London “, London College of Fashion, John Prince’s Street, London, UK

“ Hype Gallery “, The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London, UK

“ XHIBIT ’03 “, The London Institute Gallery Mayfair, London, UK

“ In – Print “, Cumbria Institute of the Arts c/o The Gallery at The Canopy, Kendal, UK

2002 “ In – Print “, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle, UK

“ Brixton Open “, The Bettie Morton Gallery, Brixton, London, UK

“ Canonbury Gallery Open “, Canonbury Gallery, Islington, London, UK

“ Exposure “, The Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art Gallery, Eastleigh, UK

2001 “ Artists in Print too “, Atrium Cotton Building London Bridge, London, UK

“ Gardens “, InsideSpace Gallery, Burlington Arcade Piccadilly, London, UK

“ Artists in print “, R. K. Burt Gallery, London, UK

“ Engraving European Biennial 2001 “, Rotary Club Acquiterme, Ovada, Italy

1997 “ Menotrenta “, Competition for young artists, Hajech Art Space, Milan, Italy

1996 “ Young Brera’s Engravers “, Il Melograno d’Oro Art Space, Milan, Italy

“ In Accademia “, National Printmaking Competition for Academies of Fine Arts, L’Aquila, Italy

Cultural Association “ La Cuba D’Oro “, Rome, Italy

“ Salon I “, Spazio Linati Gallery, Milan, Italy

1995 Cultural Association “ La Cuba D’Oro “, Rome, Italy

“ Ex - libris and Engraving “, Libreria Duomo, Milan, Italy

“ Salon I “, Studio Lattuada Gallery, Milan, Italy

IV National Competition of Graphic Art, Brisighella, Italy

IV National Competition of Painting, Lissone, Italy



Publications

Image of a print chosen for the book ‘Illuminations’‘ by the Celestial Arts, Houston, USA, 2006

Images of paintings and prints used for The European School of Oncology leaflets:

Advances in Clinical Oncology Conference May 2005, Warsaw, Poland

Skin Melanoma Conference April 2005, Moscow, Russia

Advances in Breast Cancer and Melanoma Conference September 2004, Sofia, Bulgaria

Familial Cancer Conference 2004, Milan, Italy

Gynaecological Cancer Programme Brochure 2004, Milan, Italy

Breast Cancer and Melanoma Course and Seminars 2004, Milan, Italy

Chirurgia e Immagine Corporea 2004, Italy

Carcinoma Conference 2004, Milan, Italy

Event Brochure and Flyer 2003, Milan, Italy

Image of a painting used for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport Annual Report 2001 book cover, London, UK


Qualifications

2000 - 2003 Professional Development Award in Design

Certificates in Experimental Printmaking, Applied Printmaking, Printmaking Techniques

London College of Printing, London, UK

1996 - 1998 Diploma di Maturita’, (Art High School Diploma)

Liceo Artistico Hajech, Milan, Italy

1992 - 1996 Diploma in Painting (B.A. equivalent)

Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Italy

1989 - 1990 Certificate in Graphics

R. Bauer Institute, Milan, Italy

1983 - 1987 Diploma in the Teaching of Art (A level equivalent in art subject)

Institute of Art, Cantu’, Como, Italy


Curator: Pietro Franesi

mercoledì 9 settembre 2009

Sabine Panossian




















"TRESPASSING"



Can I make visible the boarder our interpersonal distance?
The bubble of personal space is surrounding us all the time.
In total silence. Invisible energy between the dust.
Intimacy or discomfort are making their way all by themselves.
Intimate - Personal - Social - Public. Distances everywhere.


How strong do we feel the emotional bubble of ourself and others?
Taking controll over the boarderline.
You. Me.


On the search between strangeness and intimacy
I am floating in the atmosphere. Slowly. All by myself.
Comfortable and save. Free from any distances.
Am I dreaming? Am I alive?


When is the moment I am crossing the border?
Or is it you crossing it?
2) Bio


born: 6.11.1982, Vienna, Austria
lives and works in Berlin, Germany
2002-2009 diplom in communicationscience, university of Vienna, Austria
since 2006. part of the artist group: Happenstudio, Berlin, Germany: www.happenstudio.de
since 2006: working as an assistant director, director of photography, production assistant, Berlin, Germany


3) Profile
Sabine Panossian is an emerging austrian artist working with photography and film.
Living in Berlin since 2006 she joined the artist collaboration Happenstudio and since then
was participaiting on farious group exhibitions in Germany and Italy.
Her photographies and film works are mixing documentry and ficiton.


4) Exhibition History


::: 2009 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::


::Trespassing. group exhibition
Happenstudio, Berlin (www.happenstudio.de)
c-prints: Trespassing


::: 2008 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::


::Plastic Supreme. group exhibition in 3 different citties:
Happenstudio, Berlin; (www.happenstudio.de);
Gingerzone , Florenze, Italy (http://www.gingerzone.net/cosa-offre/eventi.php?id=130&m=05&y=2008);
Wallhalla Theater: Wiesbaden (www.walhalla-studio.de);
c-prints: "plastic balkan supreme"


::: 2007 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::


::FOOD. group exhibition
Happenstudio, Giovanni Galizia, Rosario Memoli, Take away, Vincenzo Abate, Saehi & Taherimoghaddam. curated by Massimo Riccardo
Brolo, Sizilien, Italy (http://www.exibart.com/profilo/eventiV2.asp?idelemento=44347)
gelatine installation 2,4m x 2,4m


::Feste Formate. group exhibition
Happenstudio, Berlin (www.happenstudio.de)
c-prints: "8 am", "Maidenmonsters"


::: 2006 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::


::Frühstück, Mittag, Kaffee, Abendbrot. group exhibition
Happenstudio, Berlin (www.happenstudio.de)
c-prints: "fiat 500", "secret stars", "wien-roma-leipzig"
video installation: "schweinebraten und massenmedien" 4 min, "Überbildung" 4 min


5) representation


www.happenstudio.de
Curator:
Pietro Franesi