Special Contents

curated by Gianluca Marziani
Arteknè Prize
Archaeological Museum, Potenza 2011
in collaboration with Shazar gallery

Catalogue

Feeling the frame, imagining the sequence that articulates a process: an obvious concept if we refer to the great cinema, less obvious when a visual artist is about to engage with the syntax of film language. Even rarer if the artist does not focus on the video shot but uses materials that have been salvaged and reused many times over, creating a scenography that reveals the narrative potential within sculptural volumes and elements of installation.

The eye which perceives – Gianluca Marziani

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L'occhio che sente

 “Feeling” images does not mean constructing simple figures […]. On the contrary, it is about perceiving the invisible in a fluid and non-didactic form. “Feeling” through intuition and insight, the result of liberating aesthetics with which to invent a new reality while remaining aware of the plausible world. The artist who “feels” is the child of cinema, the grandchild of classical iconography and the parent of future imaginations. A mixture of attitudes in which two souls combine, the static one of visual art and the dynamic one of cinema, creating unexpected, burgeoning visions.

The eye which perceives – Gianluca Marziani


AGILE: HANDLE WITH CARE – a work that began with the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill on 20th April 2010 and ended with the sealing of the well 106 days later. Millions of barrels of oil were spilled into the Mexican Gulf.
AGILE: HANDLE WITH CARE

Paola Risoli creates metaphors of human turmoil in the world out of a narrative and multi-sensory framework. Her theaters of the new absurd have Eugène lonesco in their hearts and Edward Kienholz in their muscles, Michelangelo Antonioni in their brains and Robert Rauschenberg in their bones. Theater and cinema merge in the design space to create a score with discordant voices (the contrasts between materials), which succeed in engaging with different referents through codes that adapt to individual levels of visual participation.

Tecnhical Details

SCULPTURES

L’essenziale è invisibile agli occhi, 2010 mixed media 59 (diam) x 90 (h) ed. u.
Grazie delle tue domande, 2008 mixed media 32 x 37 x 47 (h) ed. u.
Agile: handle with care, 2010 mixed media 59 (diam) x 90 (h) ed. u.

PHOTOS

L’essenziale è invisibile agli occhi frame 2, 2011 lambda print on Dibond 95,5 x 144 cm ed.3
Domande(I) 2009 lambda print on Dibond 95,5 x 144 cm ed. 3
New insight (III), 2009 lambda print on Dibond 95,5 x 144 cm ed.3
Home (I), 2009 lambda print on Dibond 95,5 x 144 cm ed. 3
Agile: handle with care frame 1, 2011 lambda print on Dibond 110 x 160 cm ed.3
Agile: handle with care frame 2, 2011 lambda print on Dibond 110 x 160 cm ed.3

VIDEOS

L’essenziale è invisibile agli occhi_ lights sequence 2010