NY BIENNALE ART: 2009

lunedì 5 ottobre 2009

Staff

http://www.nybiennaleart.org/curators_staff.htm

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

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

Edoardo Romaguera

STUDIES

2008 Doctoral Investigation: " Metamorphosis: processes and principles of the animation with sand. (Tesina, U.P.V Department of Drawing, moviment-animation). Valencia. Spain.

2007 Title of specialist in animation. Polytechnical University of Valencia, Faculty of San Carlos. Valencia. Spain.

2004/05 Masters of artistic production in the National School of the Plastic Arts: UNAM, Mexico D.F, Faculty of San Carlos.

2002 Lawyer in Fine Arts. U.P.V. Polytechnical University of Valencia, Faculty of San Carlos. Valencia. Spain.

SEMINARIES

2008 " POETRY AND ARTE" VIDEO, within the Pépinières program distributed by D. Javier Seafood, and realised in center of Konstepidemis Art. Gothemburg, Sweden.

2007 " The VOICE IN the VIEW", 2º Seminaries of dialogues with the art. ESTHER FERRER, MEDINA VALCARCER, JUAN NOBLE.

SPECIALIZATION COURSESES

2007 Scripture and grafomotricity. 100 hours.

2006 Elaboration of didactic programmings and its application. 100 hours.

The game like didactic resource. 100 hours.

2003 Factory of artistic photography in " Center of the Imagen" , Mexico; in charge of Gabriel Figueroa Flowers. Course of artistic Photography in the School Superior of Craftsmen of Valencia.

SCHOLARSHIPS

2008 " ARTIFARITI 2008". Association of Seville by the Human rights of the Saharahui town. PICTORIAL FACTORY OF TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES.

2007 " ARTIFARITI 2007". Association of Seville by the Human rights of the Saharahui People. Ministry of Culture of the Western Sáraha. Tifariti.

2004 " Scholarships of Stay for Artistica" Creation;. Secretariat of Outer Relations of the Government of Mexico D.F. Title: " City pile of broken words: Visual poetry in Mexico D.F". Had the charge of by: Gabriel Figueroa Flowers. Mexico.

2001 Foundation Gorge Blanch de Audio-visuales. Title of the project: " Space creation of structures arquitectónicas". Valencia.

PRIZES

2008 Finalist in IX the edition of the painting contest Gallery " Fiv-Art". Alicante. Spain.

I Contest of Digital Photography Argazkalik Rolling Rollak. Digital photography. Euskadi. Spain.

Finalist in the international contest " 2008culturas" . Music, photographs, video-art. Madrid. Spain.

2007 Finalist Bottom of Artistic Patrimony of the Polytechnical University of Valencia. Titled work: " Conversations with Newton and Goethe: Light verde". Valencia. Spain

2005 1° Prize of photography " OFIJOVEN" Castellón. Title of the work: " Human structures V". Castellón. Spain.

2003 Finalist. V Painting Prize of the Real Academy of San Carlos. Title: " Zone of recreation musical". Valencia. Spain.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2008 " Face and arquitectura". Street of the sea. " Sun i lluna". Valencia. Spain.

2006 " Sculptures humanas". OVNICUADRADO. Valencia. Spain. Within the cycle " Erotizarte". Exhibition of photography " Space creation of structures arquitectónicas". Spain.

2005 D´Arts Gallery. " Sculptures humanas". Valencia. Spain.

2001 Ca Revolta. " Body and arquitectura". Valencia. Spain.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

2008 " Social center carbonera". Presentation projects of artifariti 2008. Seville. Festival video art Sherry of the border - Cadiz. Spain. Catalogue. Center of the Arts of Seville (CAS). ARTIFARITI 2007. Catalogue.

ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS N#8 Berlin. Germany. Catalogue Web. " NY BIENNALE 2008". New York.USA. Catalogue Web.

Ausstellungsort ROOM: meinblau.e.V. Christinenstrasse 18 - 19 Haus 5/Pfefferberg 10119 BERLIN. Germany. Catalogue Web.

" Magatzem d´arts" on the occasion of INCUBARTE 2008. Painting. Valencia. Spain.

" Naranja" room;. Collective painting exhibition. Valencia. Spain.

Work contest for the bottom of the Polytechnical University of Valencia. Gallery " Rosalia Sender". Of the 31 of May to the 30 of June. Valencia. Spain. Catalogue.

2007 alternative Space " OVNICUADRADO". Valencia. Spain.

2006 House of Culture of Victor de los Ríos. " Shade of artista". Santonya. Spain. Palace of Manzanedo. " Shade of artista". Santoña. Spain

House of culture of Alboraya, " Cervantes, the art suena". Valencia. Spain.

2002 Exhibition hall " Josep Renau" Awarded foundation Canyada Blanch. Faculty of San Carlos. Valencia. Spain.

2001 Museum of the atarazanas of Valencia. On the occasion of " V Prize Senyera de Pintura and Escultura". Finalist. Spain. Catalogue.

1999 " Essence to piedra". Room of exposciones Quart de Poblet. Valencia. Spain.

PARTICIPATION IN FESTIVALS

2008 IX Festival of shorts (of the 28 of November to the 5 of December) Sample of Video Art. Sherry of the Border. Cadiz. Spain.

" ARTIFARITI 2008" It distributes Factory. Pictorial techniques and procedures. released terrritorios of the Western Sahara. Tifariti. " INCUBARTE 2008". Painting and poetry. Magatzems d'art.

Performance and piano.2008- II show " VALETUDO ARTISTICO". Sonorous landscapes.

2005 IV Fair of the book of City of Mexico Federal District. Performance: Tijerythor. " City pile of broken words; Poetry visual".

2003 " GATES" ELECTRONIC ARTS Milan Italy.

PAINTING MURAL

2008 Mural for the villa plants of the Clinical Hospital of Valencia. Spain.

2006 Accomplishment of the mural " People of Sotileza" , original work of D. Jose Ramon Sanchez yielded to the Ayutamniento de Santoña, Santander. (Triptych mural of 500 meters square). Government of Cantabria. Spain.

PERFORMANCE

2008 " ARTIFARITI 2008" European parliament of Strasbourg. France.

" Research center Mesoasiatico" OVNICUADRADO. Valencia. Spain

2007 " The return of Sorolla, Picazo and Benlliure to contemporaneidad" University the Nau. Spain.

" Tijerythor in Valencia" Alternative room OVNICUADRADO. Valencia. Spain.

2006 " Tijerythor against Vortex" Festival of experimental art in Utebo. Saragossa. Spain.

2005 " Tijerythor" Palace of beautiful arts of Mexico D.F.

2003 " GATES" ELECTRONIC ARTS. Tribute to Arbidas Sabonis: " Or verge negra". Oporto. Portugal.

2002 " Reflejos". II Festival of Performance U.P.V.

2001 " Bags negras". I Festival of Performance. U.P.V.

ILLUSTRATIONS

2007 Illustration of the story " llorones" of the book " the Capis" of the author Eugenio Rey. Galicia. Spain.

ACQUISITIONS OF WORK

2007 museum of Contemporary Art you take care of of it of Tifariti acquired one of its works " Ennigab" as cession on the part of the artist. Released countries of the WORK Sahara Occidental. Gift.

2006 House of Culture of Alboraya. On the occasion of the exhibition " the inheritance of cervantes". Valencia. Spain. City council of Santoña. On the occasion of the exhibition " Shade of artista" realised in the Palace of Manzanedo de Santona and in the room of Exposciones " Victor de los Rios". Government of Cantabria. Spain

COORDINATOR

2008 Space of artistic creation " LAVAKERI". Valencia. Spain.

Festival of independent art " INCUBARTE". Valencia. Spain.

2006 alternative Space of exhibitions " OVNICUADRADO" . Valencia. Spain.

ASSOCIATIONS TO WHICH IT BELONGS

Foundation " ARTE y DERECHO". VEGAP. Madrid. Guide of Illustrators of Mexico and Spain.

Curator: Pietro Franesi

martedì 8 settembre 2009

Duty Gorn

Photo by Alberto Zanetti

Title: DUTY CUBE

The idea is to interpret in a contemporary way and far from all rules the “Universal Judgment ” by Michelangelo.

The personalities with their past actions will become the new gods free to do anything trough connivances and calculations sometimes with good intentions but with disturbing results.

They are souls that float in a spiral that culminates with a symbol, there where Michelangelo has painted the vital touch between God and men. It’s a big question mark that contains and implicates the disturbing meaning of the work of art. Where will mankind go? Our personalities will move within the cube/worship place and from time to time they will be accompanied by quick questions written aside by the artist, almost as to involve the guest in a series of universal and personal questions that will remain inside, obliging him/her to reflect.

But the artist will insert also unknown men and women, autobiographical allusions that surface from his unconscious. It will be a marvelous trip through his contemporary history but also through his own intimacy, where personal power games chase each other trying to prevail above others.

For this reason the music that will reign inside the cube/worship place will be the pure essence of the concept of the game, the candid side of this term: nursery rhymes sang by kids in all languages.

DUTY GORN (Guido Minto Belloni), membro della street art milanese, inizia a dipingere nel ‘94 a soli 14 anni dando inizio così ad una carriera che fin da subito gli porta riconoscimenti a livello europeo.

Vince molti contest di writing a Milano, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Carpi e molto presto si esprime su tele preferibilmente di grossi formati in acrilico, tempera e marker raggiungendo Roma, Barcellona, Zurigo ed Amsterdam.

Definito dalla critica un misto tra la pop art di Andy Warhol e la Scuola d’arte di New York, DUTY GORN rappresenta oggi uno degli artisti più promettenti che l’Italia può vantare.

Presente dal 2004 presso lo Spazio Pontaccio in Brera e Vincitore del Premio Campari “Campari Mixx for Art”nel 2005, il giovane artista ha esposto presso la Triennale, il Teatro delle Erbe, la Rojo Gallery a Milano, la Rojo Gallery a Vienna, la Inoperable Gallery a Vienna, Puzzle 4 Peace a Bratislava e in location note come il Plastic, Lo Straf Hotel, L’Enterprise Hotel, La Banque, Orea Malià Atelier.

Ha partecipato inoltre ad eventi di brand quali Vertu, Montblanc, Salone del Mobile 2006 e 2007, Marcel Wanders Puma Collection, Classic Life, Campari, Zero 02.

Curator: Pietro Franesi

Edoardo Romaguera

Juan Claude Pictet

Title: Body Painting

I was born in a extraneous world, I had to confront it and than I didn't understand it, and in the end I accept it. In reality I don't accept it, I live it, since I am here, I want to live as I say.

I want to live over lines, which I am not able to draw straight but always soft, round, like my body.

Nonconformist? No, It's not for me.

I write bad, I drink and smoke. I still dream to change the world without moving a muscle.

Fuck, I'm afraid.

At the same time a simple and old symphony exalt myself and in a second I fell inside a power that shake me from the stomach and sweep me all. In that way I can see clear. Sometimes the colors don't be enough, I scream on the canavas and I hide under that my desperate soul which wants coming out and asks help.

HELP.

IT'S GOOD. IT'S BAD.

JUMPS OF JOY AND CRIES OF DESPERATION.

Sometimes I'm crazy and sometimes I'm caste.

Sometimes I feel me the devil, other times an angel from the heaven.

I had my first black and white.

Curator: Pietro Franesi

Sirkka Laakkonen

Curator: Pietro Franesi

Alex Komsky

Paintings. Mixed Media on Canvas. Gold and Silver leaf. Since there are cultural expressions, artists are searching for symbols. Where words are insufficient, pictures start. Komski works in this tradition. In the latest works mostly religious, symbols are made of fruit. Intriguing. surprising and in a way logical. The man became man thanks to Eve's apple. The orb is the apple of power. Food and vegetables in particular stand for fertility and vitality. The Horn of Plenty is filled with fruit, the grape bunch is the symbol for the Last Supper. Maybe Komski prepares a last supper for each religion. Or, perhaps it is an expression of irony. Or the everlasting circle of life. Or a message to everyone which says: enjoy the healthy symbols, don't die for a cross or a half moon, but eat them and celebrate the life. Komski studied the old masters profoundly, he translate their ideas to images of the 21st century in which the observer defines the spiritual content of the symbols. Installation. Mosaic made of fresh fruits and vegetables in the shape of Bull of Wall St. Mosaic – is one of the oldest art forms existing on Earth. Mosaics adorn Palaces and Villas, Churches and Synagogs from Ancient Rome to now days symbolizing beauty of nature and human being. Here is a mosaic of different kind. It made from fresh fruits and vegetables so fragile, that they will deteriorate during the relatively short period of time. The end of the Old Era, the Wall street crisis, greed of new Aligarh and old Billionaires. In his installation-mosaic Komski creates a statement. The Bull of Financial Market, The Bull of Wall Street made of his signature materials, fruits and vegetables goes down.
Curator: Pietro Franesi

lunedì 7 settembre 2009

Aldo Sardoni

Rome 1964 - architect and photographer, studied architecture and photography in Venice and Rome. Master in Theories of Architecture.
Attracted by the elements making up the the image whit particular attention to the part of it out of the shot. He works in digital with cameras and objectives Canon L. He Lives in Sardinia.

Curator: Pietro Franesi

Sergio Muntoni

BIOGRAFIA
Nàschidu in Biddamanna (Og), bivet e traballat in Tortoelì ( Og ).
Sergio Muntoni pintat belle dae cando est nàschidu.
Giai dae pitzinnu at àpidu s’istintu mannu pro sas artes figurativas e de su
paesàgiu.
At fatu istùdios a inghìriu de sa pitura naturalìstica e ambientale italiana e
europea, faghende una autoriflessione profunda subra su divenire de
s’imàgine de s’arte, lompende a su cumbinchimentu ca, lassende pro
bonas sas operatziones de chirca e avanguàrdia, goi mutida, s’arte est fata
dae cussu traballu mannu chi est s’inventzione poètica de sa realidade.
Òperas suas s’agatant in museos, colletziones pùbblicas e privadas.
Testos crìticos de sa pitura de Sèrgiu Muntoni giughent sa frima de Paolo
Levi, Donat Conenna, G. Mugnone, G. Tuti, D. Picciau, G. Patellaro, S.
Busnelli, M. Belgiovine, I. Maidai, B. Bandinu (iscritore antropòlogu), G.
Lilliu (archeòlogu, Acc. De sos Lintzeos), M. Vanni, L. Ciatto, Barbara
Campagna (giornalista), F.R.Porcu (giornalista) L.Piras(giornalista e iscitore).
De sa monografia de Sergio Muntoni b’at una versione in VHS pro contu de
sa Vìdee- editziones televisivas- Milano- CD Rom pro contu de sa domo
editritze Alba Ferrara.

ONORIFITZIÈNTZIAS.
- Professore Mastru de arte “ Honoris Causa 2003”. Accadèmia
intern. dei Dioscuri, Taranto.
- Insignidu de su tìtulu de Gran maestro e ambassadore de s’arte
italiana in su mundu ( Cavalieri Templari della Civetta , regione Puglia,
prov. di Brindisi , Arte Mondadori, Palatzu de Provìntzia de Brindisi ,
2007.
- Insignidu de su tìtulu de: Acadèmicu, setzione arte dae
s’acadèmia “Greci Marino”, acadèmia de Verbano, Novara.
- Acadèmia Internatz. De Arte Moderna, Roma – Acadèmicu S.C.
Dae su 1997 Sergio Muntoni est pintore ufitziale e Legambiente
responsàbile provintz. de Salvalarte.

Curator: Pietro Franesi

Sp 38

NO PROPAGANDA PROJECT

too much words lost ? for nothing… too much expressions misunderstood … too much stars anonymous …

“ NO PROPAGANDA “

And the world will be a preview or not …

The action is planetary but wants to be globally.

In front of so much light consummation and visual and virtual gavage – sumptuous and expensive – there is a need in reacting with a campaign of sticking placards, which shows but doesn’t encourage. Art to provide help to consumers and non-consumers, which presents like nonsense or an allegory of non-advertising, claiming an anti-advertising message for a non-public by the means of primary communication and visible (very visible) for everybody everywhere.

art like a useless propaganda – or propaganda like a useful piece of art.

… finding in a antediluvian gesture imaginary art in a primary and universal communication …

As a big campaign, but for nothing , derision and NO-fun …

SP 38 , October 08.

Curator: Pietro Franesi

Stephanie Homa

Stephanie Homa’s work, in its innocent, child-like style, reflects the aesthetics of drawings made during childhood, taking the viewer on a nostalgic trip down memory lane.

In this naïve manor, Homa, who is sometimes referred to as Cake, juxtaposes simple motifs of memorable objects such as animals, birds, trees and rainbows with man-made symbols like cars, helicopters and tall buildings that appear slightly more abstracted, attempting to create a tension between the two. The realms of nature clashing with the products of civilization are accentuated by a combination of the use of bright or pastel colours and the artist’s impulsive flow.

Homa is inspired by automatism, a method which the Surrealists and Dadaists commonly used, where the artist strives to allow the impulses of the unconscious to guide the hand in matters of line, colour, and structure without the interference of conscious choice. By working in this way, a dreamlike atmosphere is created in her works, however a distinct central figure often appears, which is given symbolic importance.

Homa’s expressive freedom is an attempt to dispose of conventional drawing techniques, which is also apparent in the materials she works with, often using imperfect or used papers that have been folded or marked since their production. Despite this, her well composed collages with their precisely placed dots, stars and hearts suggest a well thought-out arrangement.

Stephanie Homa was born in Germany in 1981. She studied textile and surface design in Berlin, graduating last year, and now lives and works in London where she has mainly been selling her work online.

Curator: Pietro Franesi

Philip Tonda Heide

Based in Amsterdam, Berlin and Copenhagen.
Education: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL: Fine Art/Timebased Art UDK Berlin, DE: Fine Art/Visual Culture Studies.

Curator: Pietro Franesi

Benna

Title: Lost civilization of vessels

2009
video, DVD stream MPEG2 PAL 4:3 Stereo, 5' 10''.

This short movie has been realized with homonymous photographic series, consisting of 675 elaborations 24x32 cm, in order to create an additional narration that serves to better comprehend the meaning project.

As a file of mysterious and alien origins, the artwork displays the finds of what seem a civilization suddenly disappeared.

Of this civilization, incomprehensible to the eyes of exotic archaeologists, remain nothing but but debris of toxic substances and rubbish, which lay under an invisible dust into a still atmosphere, crystallized, with muffled reverberations, where the nature slowly returns to its archaic equilibriums.

From these poisonous debris, lost on calm moor, one tries to deduce with logic the fate fell on this “civilization of the vessels” that it has vanished leaving no other traces.

These debris are the only clues of the past existence of a certain form of almost intelligent life, that however has gone lost or has been corrupted up to the self-destruction.

The echo of a foolish tumult from a distant planet extinguishes itself in a final dull roar.

Perhaps attracted by this roar, the travellers came in this stone lost in the cosmos just to ascertain the end of that tumult.

An introduction
The artistic expression of Benna is characterized by the coexistence of two fundamental elements:
a firm conceptual substratum and a unsettled aesthetic appearance.
Benna takes advantage of sundry disciplines and techniques: painting, photography, graphics,
cinematography, sculpture, as well literature and music. Therefore eclecticism is the most suitable
word to define his production which is constituted by graphic, photographic and synthetic artworks,
short films, acrylic or oil paintings, poems, assembled objects and more.
This eclecticism does not have a merely experimental intent, since it is the result of a planning in
the choice of the expression form, or the language, that is best suited for the manifestation of a
concept.
The significances are a constant presence in his artworks, which always take origin from a
conceptual research. This research becomes accomplished through the technical expression, or
even merely aesthetic, but always showing an interest for universal, social or humane
metaphysical topics, faced sometimes in a grieve manner and sometimes with irony.
A short resume
2009 - Con Andy Warhol, collective exposition, Capri (Naples) - Italy
participation with photographic and computer graphics artworks
2008 - Artintown, collective exposition - Turin - Italy
participation with video art installations, painting and photography
2007 - Sperimenta 2007, cinematographic parade - Dodes'ka-den - Chiavari - Italy
premiere of some short movies
2007 - Dedalo, collective exposition - Villa Grimaldi - Lavagna - Italy
participation with painting, photography and audio
2006 - "short movie #1" winner of the Golem Videofestival - Turin - Italy
2006 - Sperimenta 2006, cinematographic parade - Dodes'ka-den - Chiavari - Italy
premiere of some short movies
2006 - Essere Visual, visual arts happening - Prato - Italy
premiere of some short movies
2006 - La faccia omessa, collective exposition - Jizaino Arts - Genoa - Italy
participation with painting and photography
2005 - Sperimenta 2005, cinematographic parade - Dodes'ka-den - Chiavari - Italy
premiere of some short movies
2005 - Bela Lugosi is not dead, collective exposition - Agheiro - Lavagna - Italy
participation with visual art installation
Bio
Benna was born in the second half of the XX century, in summertime. He lives on the surface of the
planet Earth, preferring the sea shore. He sojourns in Italy, between Liguria and Tuscany, lands
that arouse those poetic meditations from which his artworks have originated.
Creativity and devotion for the visual arts have characterized him since childhood. He
decides to be an artist at the age of thirteen, but he is misled by art schools, just for a while,
therefore he intensely devotes himself to autodidactic studies in a variety of fields
Curator: Pietro Franesi

Willem Fred

Title: Faxman

" Beauty and Uglyness"

I'll show, with my Fax-copy machine and the manipulations of the scanner, to create and mix new images with a model, found in magazines.

I clone faces and bodys, writting too, and it appaer new effect, new digital images,

like a DJ who mix and transform differents Musics, I use the technology to Create a new image and style.

Often I clone celebritys , and for me its a tribute to Mikael J. too use his face.

His face start black to finish white and cloned.

Beauty to uglyness.

Fred Willem-
Belgium-Brussels
1974

Artist-photographer-and digital performer,

inventor of the Scanner-art(Faxart)

Biography:

1993 Start studies in artschool "la Cambre " in Brussels

1993 stop studies at "la Cambre",
travels in Marocco, Turkya,indonesia, Nepal, Thailand,....

1994 discover of the Scanner-art( Faxart),

performances for Belgian and French TV,

and somes articles for magazines , newspapers

1995 Start exhibition in the Street in Brussels, ( Raylways station,Parc,...)

1995 exhibition at the Freedom Theatre -London

1996 travels around the world

2001 start argentik photography( double exposure)

2002 work like photographer for the Techno club -"Fuse" in Brussels

2002 french television for the scanner art ( culturo-Canal +)

2003 Faxart - performance in the Gallery " Artcor" , street Richelieu-Paris

few edition of photography in differents newspapers , magazines, like "Image- magazine"(paris),"le Soir " Belgium,.....

2004 official photographer for the "Moulin-Rouge " Paris

2005-2006 travel in Buenos Aires

2007 Berlin, first exhibition at the "Foto-shop"gallery : Scanner-art performance

2008 new galery in Beirut -performance and photo-exhibition " Artlounge Gallery"

2008 edition in " Exberliner magazine" and cover for the " AGenda culturel" magazine Beirut

Curator: Pietro Franesi

Sabrina Locatelli

RICREARTE takes life from an intuition of Sabrina Locatelli, graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan.

RICREARTE mostly plans, produces and commercializes objects of innovative design using recovered materials. From here the definition [eco] design, meant like reinterpretation of the discarded object and gesture of resistance to the contemporary phenomenon of compulsive wasting.

Objects of design like lamps, carpets, mirrors and sittings are the real outcome of this projecting reflection.

The searching distance is a complex way. It begins from the study, the research and the choice of the materials. Through the planning of the finished work and of the execution instruments, it is advanced until its complete realization.

A continuous dialectic dynamics characterizes the entire process, from the idea to the realization, through the research of an equilibrium between shape, colour, matter and proportions.

If from Arman’s works and then in the Sixty’s, through the Junk Art, the refusals have made their appearance into art galleries, now is the whole world of the design that gives its attention on (?) and re-interpretates them.

Nowadays it isn’t just an esthetic issue, born to give visibility to the implications of the society of the consumptions, but also an ethic issue to the sustainability of life styles. From the provoking attempts, the disconcert operations and the re-contextualization beloved to the artists, [the eco] design moves the attention on the refusal in an ecological point of view: creating objects by what is discarded is a meaningful gesture above all in the name of sustainability and respect of the atmosphere.

It’s a poetic gesture!

ROTHKO CARPET - PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

1. definition

Rothko is a carpet in pure wool felt, hand interlaced.

2. philosophy

The Rothko carpet conjugates tradition and innovation.

One traditional technique as the webbing, through its interlace of weft and warp, joins the innovative topic of the sustainability, meant at the same time as idea, style of life, way to produce.

3. materials

The material used for its realization is recovered from flashes (rejects) of industrial working. They’re selvage drafts of working of the felt. The main characteristics of the “raw materials” are the length (ca. 50 meters every selvage), the thickness and the trace of the seam executed before the cut with a clashing coloured thread.

4. working

The instrument for the realization of the carpet is a handicraft chassis by hand, with specific adjustments according to the base material.

The qualities of the material allow to create, in phase of webbing, a particular, large weft interlace, in which the colour of the felt mixes to the seam’s one following an irregular course (due to the natural torsion of the fiber in phase of working) that creates sophisticated nuances. The connection of “strips” of different colours is made without seams, simply interlacing several selvages the one with the other.

5. finished product

The used technique concurs to obtain infinite variations, through the choice of many different colours, various modalities to assemble them (lines, squares,…) and multiple dimensions.

The characteristics of the material, the particular weft, the design and the colours, rewards every carpet an only piece.

A contemporary weave from an ancient technique.

Curator: Pietro Franesi