Primavera Exhibition | Amsterdam | 2007

‘PRIMAVERA’ EXHIBITION Kunstruimte / Art Space PUNT WG AMSTERDAM

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‘PRIMAVERA’ EXHIBITION Kunstruimte / Art Space PUNT WG AMSTERDAM Kunstruimte PUNT WG / Art Space PUNT WG, RS Amsterdam www.puntwg.nl

Curators: Els van der Graaf and Rody Luton

Kunstenaars / Artists: _Fabiola Faidiga _Gianluca Ferrari _Els van der Graaf _Liz Harrison _Rody Luton _Paul Malone _Damiano Paroni _Nicola Rae _Giorgio Tentolini _Nikolaus Urban

Web-sites: www.atelierwg.nl www.a2arts.co.uk www.exhibitionow.com

_Kunstenaars uit Italie, Engeland en Nederlandtonen hun persoonlijke reactie op het thema Primavera in zeer uiteenlopende media van digitale projecties, installaties en performance tot objekten, foto’s en schilderijen.

_Primavera is an exhibition featuring contemporary artists from Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. _The themes of renewal and ‘first truth’ are realised in diverse formats, from made artefacts to digital projection.

‘PRIMAVERA’ EXHIBITION Kunstruimte / Art Space PUNT WG AMSTERDAM

FABIOLA FAIDIGA LA CITTA’ DI ODRADEK LIVE PERFORMANCE AND MIXED-MEDIA | 2007

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LA CITTA DI ODRADEK _Trieste, luogo sospeso fra terre di confine e estensioni marine. La figura immaginaria di Odradek visita una città ferma e metafisica. _Anna Miot, esile personaggio dalla camicia di colore rosso, rappresenta uno spiritello solitario e trascendentale, in armonia con le caratteristiche dei luoghi della città. Anna ( Odradek ) visita e contempla senza interazione con l’esterno da sè, le rive, il molo, la piazza, il lungomare, il mercato con la giostra, il porto vecchio. Nessuno sembra vederla. _A Odradek non spetterebbe di esistere, dovrebbe rimare nell’immaginario e non essere mai rappresentato. Un essere impalpabile, impossibile da vedere in volto, creatura ignota ma universale dove riporre senza risposta il rebus dell’esistere, sino alla fine, dietro al cigolio di una porta. _Il video e le fotografie di scena sono state realizzate per partecipare alla mostra / installazione in progress ispirata al personaggio di Odradek, figura / oggetto / spiritello intrigante / presente nel racconto. La preoccupazione del padre di famiglia è di Franz Kafka ed è stato presentato per la prima volta il 13 Maggio 2006 al Teatro Miela di Trieste per ODRADEriK Mielaviglie e Festosità per il compleanno di Erik Satie.

Cast: Anna Miot - Montaggio: Marco Devescovi Per la performance ad Amsterdam: Sara Alzetta Courtesy: Odraderik - Ciascuno ha il suo Odradek - Teatro Miela - Trieste

_‘Mouths’ is not indifferent, ‘Mouths’ impresses. _The body, clearly exposed in the act of speaking, expresses by entering and exiting. _‘Mouths’ speaks, but is silent at the same time. ‘Mouths’ is still action, unspoken movement, communication, rising exchange. _At the very beginning ‘Mouths’ was only an open mouth facing outwards; it has become a pair. _A presence that enters and one that exits in a mutual exchange, yet to be realized. _‘Mouths’ is an interrupted activity, whose story only comes to life when observed. _It’s frozen in time as an act of meditation using communication. _Gianluca Ferrari’s work always reflects on the meaning of time and the importance of the past. _These topics are tied spontaneously with the contemporary: new media is a remarkable and characteristic presence in his work, as evolving forms of expressions. ‘Mouths’ is a prelude to movement. _Expression is present but only as a prelude to communication. _The gesture is evident and is charged with all that was in the past and what could be in the future. _At the same time, the light in Gianluca Ferrari’s works is the testimony to the intensity that allows his work to concentrate on an almost meditative action, as a reflection. _The mouth is the voice’s power, the body is the presence that wanders through living spaces, the light or the video image is the kynetic movement. We tend to watch and to remain suspended; usually white words in an shadowed environment lighted by the slide-projector’s electric light, as a traced and unending path for one’s thoughts. _Suspension is therefore everywhere, not least in the words that indicate a meditative mood.

Silvia Scaravaggi

GIANLUCA FERRARI MOUTHS MIXED-MEDIA | 2007

_The exhibited works, two digital printed photos and two gouaches, are from the series ‘things evolve and take their natural course’. _A quotation from an old Chinese philosophical text expressing the (cruel) necessity and beauty of transition/transfiguration of matter and life. _The photographs captured the very moment of this process when the ‘objects’ with the loss of some properties from their original appearance and value evolve into pure colour, texture, and form, regaining thereby abstract, visual aspects.

Els van der Graaf

ELS VAN DER GRAAF THINGS EVOLVE AND TAKE THEIR NATURAL COURSE MIXED-MEDIA ON PAPER | 2006 - 2007

_Liz Harrison’s practice spans a broad range of eclectic media utilising the sculptural form and architectural space with light, illusion and lens based projections. _The work is often site-specific. _Her work seeks to define and articulate ideas about space, mapping traces of human activity and presence; visual narratives inherent in the work, explore disparate sites as the home, the city, the countryside. _The questions raised and explored through installation concern contemporary issues that are particularly relevant to the urban environment. _The tentative relationship that individuals have with their surroundings, the everyday repetitious, mundane habitual activities that are our makeup, colour and form our perceptions.

Liz Harrison

LIZ HARRISON GLASSHOUSE MIXED-MEDIA | 2007

RESOWN WITH COLOURS BY SUCCEEDING SPRINGS _This line taken from a poem by Emily Dickinson reflects the yearly cycle of nature. _New life as visible in the colours of the fields, as if resown like seeds. _It resonates with my work where nature, the memory of nature and its colours are recurrent themes. _Here earth pigments have been used — yellow ochre, green and brown. _Using layers of colour, which change in tone, transforming into warmth, and lines giving it form. _A process of time made visible.

Rody Luton

RODY LUTON UNTITLED INSTALLATION WITH OIL PAINTINGS | 2007

_Medium : ice blue plastic vending cups. _Continuing his series of ‘cosmological conceits’ Paul Malone has installed, across the gallery wall, a drift of plastic vending cups that emulate the pathways of a plasma discharge in Space. _Their ice blue colour hints, paradoxically, at their recent ultraviolet origin and the ‘K’ effect of anomalous red-shift in their aquisition of mass.

Paul Malone

PAUL MALONE THE ‘K’ EFFECT ICE BLUE PLASTIC VENDING CUPS | 2007

DAMIANO PARONI SENZA TITOLO MIXED-MEDIA | 2007

_Even if his art was delivered by several different media, Damiano Paroni has always maintained a peculiar style driven by a strict sense of space and a maniacal use of the same (black) colour. _His works often consist of a few elements whose interplay can be described as a silent dialogue. _In spite of the complete lack of images and the frequent use of rigid shapes, the work is never experienced as static. _As soon as our sight is taken over by our feelings we perceive implosions, distances and depths, all connected by an intimate breath of infinity.

Damiano Paroni

_'Underground Frequencies: King's Cross to North Greenwich 15 - 02 - 07' explores sounds edited from a film made in connection with the 2005 bombings in London. _The soundtrack from the film was loaded into a sound emission analysing computer program, which displays the sounds as a graphic showing frequency in relation to time. _The film was initiated when the news media were discussing a fireman's confrontation of a failed train bomber in a trial earlier this year. _Since Autumn 2006 I have travelled regularly to the area of London between Tavistock Square and Russell Square, where most people were killed or injured in the 2005 bombings. _Two of the bomb blasts occured within close proximity in this area - one above ground ina bus and the other nearly directly below ground on the underground between King's Cross and Russell Square. _Recording the experience of crowded underground journeys and searching for traces of the bombings, however slight, became important to me. _I created a split screen projection of images shot in Tavistock Square, near where the bus exploded, and also a rush hour underground journey between King's Cross and North Greenwich. _The unnatural calm of looking into water as the wind passes across it in Tavistock Square, contrasts with the experience of unpredictable claustrophobia and the intimacy of people crushed together in rush hour travel. _The selected sound frequencies shown in Amsterdam were displayed in cylindrical perspex jars on perspex shelves. _Recorded in the narrow Victorian tunnels of the Piccadilly Line, in which a bomb can cause maximum damage, they show quite different frequency visualisations to those recorded on the new Jubilee Line extension to North Greenwich. _The sounds of the journey are magnified by the enclosed spaces and many of the uncanny sounds recorded stretch well beyond the hearing range of humans.

Nicola Rae

NICOLA RAE SOUNDBOX MIXED-MEDIA | 2007

_With precise intention Giorgio Tentolini produces his past experience: so in every action he works by his memory. _For this work he took 140 photos of people met in 2 months. _Genomi is like a daily life’s diary. _He wants to do a multy-portait putting the faces ( one after the other ) like in a medical examination. _Looking the works in side the visitor can recognise every portaits but if he stayes in front of them he percepts by the fusion of the all of them just one head. _This work is made to loose the identity of every single subject. In this way the autor searches the dna of a period loosing the familiarity with peoples but finding the intimacy of relation.

Giorgio Tentolini

GIORGIO TENTOLINI GENOMI MIXED-MEDIA | 2007

_My projection piece is an animated visual text, commenting the successive steps in the creative process by displaying a series of metaphors. _Subsequently, it is a parody about idea, presentation, reception and outcome. _Starting with “Primavera” for the idea, I am marking a point of departure. _This idea is manifested in the following well staged personification “Prima Donna”. _Her appearance is provoking an exclamation in true catholic spirit, which is “Oh Madonna”. _Finally, the outcome surprise, surprise is not more than a trivial hold up: “Give me the dough”. _In other words, instead of attaining the Olympic heights of divine creation, the artist ends up on the ground of reality and not as a kind of fallen angel as he would like to be seen but just as a down-to-earth chap in a shady backstreet. _Different readings: since the text is running as a loop, one can start to read it where he is catching up, interpret it differently and come to another conclusion or to no conclusion at all.

Nikolaus Urban

NIKOLAUS URBAN PRIMAVERA / PRIMA DONNA VIDEOPROJECTION ON PANEL | 2007

EXHIBITION IMAGES

CONTACT Fabiola Faidiga www.a2arts.co.uk

Gianluca Ferrari www.exhibitionow.com

Els van der Graaf www.exhibitionow.com

Liz Harrison www.a2arts.co.uk

Rody Luton www.atelierwg.nl

Paul Malone www.a2arts.co.uk

Damiano Paroni www.exhibitionow.com

Nicola Rae www.a2arts.co.uk

Giorgio Tentolini www.giorgiotentolini.com

Nikolaus Urban www.deappel.nl

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