EXHIBITION TITLE: DISEGNITUDINE. LA QUOTIDIANITA’ DELL’UTOPIA
ARTISTS: Elena Arzuffi, Marco Baroncelli, Clara Brasca, Carmine Calvanese, Chiara Castagna, Davide Coltro, Arjen de Leeuw, Daniele Girardi, Ernesto Jannini, Dimitris Kozaris, Adriano Nardi, Elena Nemkova, Flaviano Poggi, Luisa Raffaelli, Francesco Totaro; nella sezione dedicata agli storici: Enrico Baj, Claudio Costa, Ken Friedman, Maurice Henry
CURATED BY: FIAMMETTA STRIGOLI
PERIOD: 10 DECEMBER 2005 – 4 MARCH 2006
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| CLAUDIO COSTA Macchina alchemica 1986 various materials on panel cm 100 x 205 |
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The tenth of December 2005 at 6:30 pm the gallery, “La Giarina”, inaugurates “Disegnitudine. La quotidianità dell’utopia” a large exhibition of works by contemporary artists belonging to different generations with the intent to emphasize different declensions of design. The exhibition is curated by Fiammetta Strigoli.
Design, the marked structure, so close to calligraphy, emerging as a medium or as a parameter useful to set the meaning of an individual project, of a character distinction in the continuing necessity of man to auto-identify himself, to fix his own presence of himself and any other object, propose his central role as primitive fruit of an intuitive vision, of a splendid deaf concentration to any “noise”, declaring the desire for the artist to not give up building with casualness, to not give up on utopia. Still, in the art of contemporariness, the design, often, does not live its subjective reality, but lives together with adjacent worlds like painting and less so like photography and computer graphics. Every stroke in a draft, in a story-board, in the plan for a performance, assumes value that goes beyond the final result, since the design, when used as a creation of a work, even in the case of a photographic work, holds the idea in its taking form, holds in itself the impossible dream, the memory of an “experiment” even destined to failure.
The artist, alien to the dictation of notion which orders, limits, sperarates, creates worlds, invents its own illusory and fantastic universe, dreamed and idealized, the design affirms it : instinctively the images pass in the conscience in the memory, and across the instrument of the design, transformed form interior experience to exterior experience – an unknown reality that appears from its own self, physical and spiritual.
The marked structure prompts visual precision, sensations, insists on the sense of alteration, of movement of the reality, is testimony of a creative act that goes beyond the given reality in the intent to elaborate ulterior universes in a sort of escape from time, space, from the history, from the world . . . . the artists of “Disegnitudine. La quotidianità dell’utopia” in the section dedicated to both emerging and already interpreted contemporariness: Elena Arzuffi, Marco Baroncelli, Clara Brasca, Carmine Calvanese, Chiara Castagna, Davide Coltro, Arjen de Leeuw, Daniele Girardi, Ernesto Jannini, Dimitris Kozaris, Adriano Nardi, Elena Nemkova, Flaviano Poggi, Luisa Raffaelli, Francesco Totaro; nella sezione dedicata agli storici: Enrico Baj, Claudio Costa, Ken Friedman, Maurice Henry.
LUISA RAFFAELLI, 2005, A perfect love, grafite su tavola cm 87x190