Camera d’Arte

18
Feb

Giuseppe Penone. Matrice

Posted by / visionart, arte, installazione, scultura

“Trees appear as solid beings, but if we observe them through time, in their growth they become a fluid, malleable matter. A tree is a being that memorizes its own shape and this shape is necessary to its life. Therefore, it is a perfect sculptural structure, because it carries the necessity of existence.” – Giuseppe Penone

FENDI presents the first exhibition of contemporary art at Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in Rome.

From January 26 until July 16, 2017, the Maison’s headquarters hosts a solo exhibition entitled Matrice by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone.

The exhibition takes place in the extraordinary first floor of Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, which FENDI has restored and opened to the public for exhibitions and installations.

Matrice is a unique opportunity to admire a selection of historical works and new productions realized specifically for this occasion by Giuseppe Penone, one of the greatest living sculptors. The exhibition features 17 artworks that date from the 1970s to the present, including many that are rarely seen and will be shown in Italy for the first time.

The entire exhibition has been conceived in dialogue with the monumental architectural spaces of the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, presenting a collection of artworks that contrast the clear-cut geometry and the marble facets of this building.

The exhibition is named after one of Giuseppe Penone’s most spectacular works, Matrice (2015), a 30-meter-long sculpture in which the trunk of a fir tree has been carved out following one of its growth rings, thus bringing to the surface the past of the tree and its transformations in time. A bronze mold has been cast in the wood, apparently freezing nature’s flow of life. Like many of Penone’s artworks, Matrice reveals the artist’s interest in the relationship between time and nature and, metaphorically, between nature, humankind and transience. In addition, a new major sculpture in stainless steel and bronze, over 20 meters tall, Abete (Fir Tree, 2013), is installed in front of Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, adding a new natural dimension to the abstract geometric architecture of the EUR area.Continue Reading..

14
Feb

Annette Messager. Messaggera

Posted by / arte, performance, installazione, fotografia

From February 10 to April 23, 2017  the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici will host the first solo exhibition in Italy by Annette Messager, one of the most famous, innovative and non conformist French artists on the contemporary art scene.

Internationally speaking the exhibition is already looking like one of the big cultural events of the season. Titled Messaggera, the show combines the most remarkable works of a prestigious career with new ones specially created for the Villa. Taken together they testify to the eclecticism of an artist who makes nonchalant play with references both to art history and popular culture.

With Annette Messager, and at the instigation of director Muriel Mayette-Holtz, the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici is initiating Une, its new series of contemporary art exhibitions, curated by Chiara Parisi: women artists internationally famed as contemporary icons will be presenting major shows with works for the most part not seen in Italy before. Each exposition will highlight the expressive force of the artist’s project and their vision.

Born in 1943 and laureate of the Golden Lion at the 2005 Venice Biennale, in 2016 Annette Messager received the prestigious Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award for sculpture. Not only sculpture, however, but also drawing, painting, photography, writing and embroidery, are the instruments she uses in her installations that are ironic reflections of her own experience.

“For me,” explains the artist, “transforming something is like playing. But playing seriously, the way children do. I consider myself an old child.” With these words she introduces us into a world founded on a balance between the familiar and the troubling, between dream and nightmare. A world of fabrics, colored pencils, doctored images, dolls, soft toys and stuffed animals.

At the Villa Medici Annette Messager offers an imaginative, dreamlike itinerary that sets up interaction between the interior and exterior spaces of the splendid Renaissance architecture. In an exploration of the revolts led by women, their fears and fantasies, the artist raises the issue of prejudice with a single intention: transforming taboos into totems. “When I started,” says Annette Messager, “the art world was almost exclusively male. Since then a lot more women have found their way in, but prejudices die hard. A woman artist triggers specific questions: I get asked about my private life, and if I have children. Women writers are more readily accepted, probably because they’ve inherited the tradition of keeping a diary.” With her highly personal way of interpreting our time, telling stories and creating disturbing ambiences, Messager challenges the social clichés about womanhood and plays her part in deconstructing stereotypes.Continue Reading..

14
Feb

Duncan Campbell

Posted by / teatro, arte, performance

WIELS presents the first solo exhibition by Duncan Campbell (b. 1972) in Belgium. Irish-born, Glasgow-based Campbell is highly acclaimed for his revitalisation of documentary formats and experimental film. Campbell was recipient of the 2014 Turner Prize for his seminal film It for Others, originally commissionned by The Common Guild Glasgow and produced for the Scottish Pavillion at the Venice Biennial in 2013. His solo exhibition at WIELS comprises three of his major film works: It for Others (2013), Bernadette (2008), and o Joan, no… (2006). It for Others, the central work in this exhibition, has a double contextual appeal to a Belgian audience, first for its scrutiny of African sculpture in Alain Resnais and Chris Marker’s seminal film Les statues meurent aussi (Statues also Die, 1953) and for Michael Clark Company’s contemporary choreography. For this film, Campbell took Les statues meurent aussi as both source and artefact for his film to pursue a meditation on the life, death and the value of objects. Marker and Resnais’ film opens with the “When people die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.” So begins the film presented much like the objects that appear in the film: to be viewed in a time and place different from those of its making. Commissioned by Présence Africaine, it tracks objects from Sub-Saharan Africa to the Western metropolis, and the transition from religious fetish to commodity; from original to market reproduction.

The second work to be featured is Bernadette, a critically acclaimed film about the Irish Political Acitivist and Member of the British Parliament, Bernadette Devlin. This will be accompanied by archival documents from the People’s Democracy group of which Devlin was a member. The film installation is accompanied by a set of posters of the early stages of political in Northern Ireland, the “Troubles,” evoking also Devlin as a product of a political moment who was quick to grasp a bigger plot—the structural conflicts and tensions shared by all societies.

The third work, o Joan, no… is an abstract, cine-plasticist, sensorial film on vision and hearing. The presentation is completed with other printed works including a recent poem in tonalist associative modernist language. o Joan, no… begins in darkness; abstract darkness. As the film progresses the darkness is interrupted by light. A random sequence of lights ensues—theatre lights, streetlights, household lights, the lit end of a cigarette. The camera greets these interruptions in the darkness with alarm, reticence, perplexity, curiosity. The accompanying voice emits a series of grunts, moans, sighs, laughs.Continue Reading..

10
Feb

Hans Op de Beeck. The Silent Castle

Posted by / arte, installazione, scultura

“I’m not interested in simulating reality, otherwise I would probably have gone into film, as a set designer. I would like to interpret the world by creating fictional settings where we can perceive the echo of reality.” –Hans Op de Beeck

The Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck (born in Turnhout in 1969, lives in Brussels) works with almost all available artistic media. Be it for his sculptures or expansive installations, his large-format watercolours or videos and animated films, he avails masterfully of the staging strategies of theatre, film and architecture so as to create atmospherically dense, dream-like images that always seem familiar and yet alien.

In the very special atmosphere of the Baroque moated castle in Morsbroich, Op de Beeck is presenting a broad selection of his works of the past 12 years. He has created a series of open stages which the viewer can enter—partly on foot, but always in his mind—and be transported into a world where reality and fiction become superimposed and where time seems to stand still: The Silent Castle. Visitors encounter life-sized plaster figures, quite naturally, as if they were at home in the castle’s former living spaces. Like the visitors themselves, they stand on soft carpets, resting, lost in thought or daydreaming. The carpets cushion the footsteps and muffle the sounds. Their grey colour blends with the reduced palette of Op de Beeck’s sculptural still lifes. Here, life pauses for a moment, giving rise to an atmosphere of concentration, intimacy and contemplation.

Hans Op de Beeck creates places of silence, scenarios in which the viewer can immerse himself or which he can fill with associations and memories of his own. But these works also create a subtle tension. The piano is silent, the kiddie rides in front of the supermarket are stationary, water lilies conceal the uncanny depths of the black lake, and yet something surprising could happen at any moment, be it solely in our minds.

The video Staging Silence (2) (2013) visualises the transience of those moments full of poetry. Using all kinds of accessories, such as cotton wool or sugar cubes, and even more astonishing effects, the video shows us whole landscapes—that disappear just as quickly. By contrast, the animated film Night Time (2015) relies completely on the comforting hours of night when we become reconciled with ourselves again. The rooms presented in that film are abandoned like the empty sets of his installations. They overwhelm or enchant the viewer, house him, and ultimately confront him with himself.Continue Reading..

05
Feb

Luca Andreoni. Le mie notti sono più belle dei vostri giorni

Posted by / arte, fotografia

Dal 21 gennaio al 4 marzo 2017, in mostra alla MLZ Art Dep il lavoro inedito di Luca Andreoni Le mie notti sono più belle dei vostri giorni, un omaggio al cinema e alla fotografia.

Le mie notti sono più belle dei vostri giorni è un tributo all’amore, dalle sue forme più universali, come la passione per il cinema e la fotografia, alle sue forme più intime e personali, come le relazioni sentimentali tra esseri umani.

Realizzata all’interno della Cineteca di Bologna, dove sono conservati più di 70.000 film, la serie corre infatti lungo un doppio binario: mentre alcune immagini di grande formato restituiscono gli ambienti di questa cattedrale della memoria, le stampe di formato più piccolo, presentate singolarmente o composte in una grande installazione, costituiscono un attraversamento dell’archivio ad opera dall’artista che, prelevando attraverso la fotografia una selezione di titoli evocativi, ricostruisce la tipica struttura narrativa di una storia d’amore.

La mostra, curata da Francesca Lazzarini, è inserita nel calendario di eventi del Trieste Film Festival.

Luca Andreoni (1961) è uno dei più prolifici autori nel panorama della fotografia italiana contemporanea. Il suo precoce impegno nel campo artistico della fotografia di paesaggio, supportato da una ricerca scrupolosa quanto poetica, lo ha portato a intense espressioni di forti valori simbolici che caratterizzano il suo lavoro. La sua opera rigorosa è ben nota nel mondo della fotografia e dell’arte contemporanea e molte prestigiose istituzioni hanno richiesto la sua partecipazione a importanti mostre e pubblicazioni. Le sue fotografie sono state incluse in collezioni importanti, tra cui quelle di proprietà di Deutsche Bank, della Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, di Fondazione Fotografia e altre.



All’attività artistica e professionale affianca da tempo una intensa attività d’insegnamento: dal 2013 è docente di Fotografia presso l’Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo.
Dal 2009 è Guest Professor presso il Master universitario in Photography and Visual Design presso NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milano.
Dal 1990 insegna presso la Scuola di Specializzazione in Storia dell’Arte dell’Università Cattolica di Milano, come docente del “Laboratorio di Fotografia applicata alle opere d’arte”.
Ha tenuto corsi di Fotografia presso Fondazione Fotografia, Modena, l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna e presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti Aldo Galli di Como.
Ha inoltre insegnato in numerosi workshop, per istituzioni quali Fondazione Fotografia, Modena e Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia, Milano. Ha tenuto lectures pubbliche in istituzioni quali il Politecnico di Milano, l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Varsavia, Fondazione Fotografia a Modena, e in festival e fiere d’arte.
Dal 2008 al 2013 ha curato in Valle d’Aosta una residenza per giovani artisti rivolta a selezionati studenti di scuole d’arte e fotografia.

Luca Andreoni
Le mie notti sono più belle dei vostri giorni
a cura di Francesca Lazzarini
MLZ Art Dep
21 gennaio 2016 – 4 marzo 2017
Inaugurazione: 21 gennaio 2016, ore 17.30

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