The reasons for an island
by Francesco Luciani
March 20-April 18
CoCA Center of Contemporary Arts - Modica
in collaboration with Laboratory A.utonomo P.otenziale.
City of Modica
Province of Ragusa
PRESS
On 20 March 2010 h. 20 inaugurated the exhibition "The reasons for island" at the CoCA Center of Contemporary Arts in Modica. The exhibition, curated by Francesco Luciani, sees the presence of the works of Rosario Antoci, Claudio Cavallaro, Silvia Giambrone, Francesco Lauretta, Concetta Modica, Sebastian Mortellaro, Mauro Romito, Stefania Zocco. In the aftermath of alternatives and documented facts that the territory of Sicily as the star of a general cultural and artistic renaissance, the inquiry shifts from the historical and geographical facts land for other reasons and points of knowledge. The common denominator is the piece of personal data, but the diversity of languages \u200b\u200band of contemporary approaches to define a geography stratified by individual reflection, generational, linguistic and existential. Among the areas of stratification we read the reasons in the form of thought that every artist cultivates and expresses a common origin from which this data is not the only reason, but the departure counter, the permanence and landing. "The reasons for the island" are not confined to Sicily, but as a land surrounded by sea to which it is to relate the multiplicity of these artists. The amazement regarding the origin sicula now is unjustified and the reasons are not an island to search the island, but in languages \u200b\u200bthat live and develop in new places and temporary membership. The exhibition highlights a constellation of reactions and decisions reached in different times and contingencies. The speed of life and the instability of the circumstances does not differentiate between those coming from the island and those coming from the mainland, the relationship between art and its origin is a concept that is constantly rewriting and breaks should not know, cliches and boundaries.
Rosario Antoci
Born in Dubrovnik in 1966. He graduated from the Art Institute of Comiso and then he graduated in sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, the city where he lived from 1986 until 1992. E 'Professor of Artistic Anatomy and Anatomy of the Image at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Catania. Its large size installations made by assembling concrete, mortar, resins and glass fibers, are the series of silent gardens. In more recent years moves the creative thinking to environmental and coexisting opposites, increasingly probing into the camera lens.
Claudio Cavallaro
Born in Syracuse in 1976. The research report focuses on visible / invisible with respect to objects, images and situations of daily living a second life The use of light materials, and color pigments that react to special lights are used to accentuate the idea of \u200b\u200bthis research. The concept of resurrection is designed almost like a transformation into something else. The subjects are not raised in the previous essence but in s-object-art, whose purpose is to stimulate reflection so that the work will transmit (radiate) love, and contributes in some way, to the betterment of society.
Silvia Giambrone
Born in Agrigento in 1981, lives and works between Rome and Berlin. He works mainly with video, photography and installation process by touching the theme of language as a political tool and the relationship between indivisuo and space. He is a founding artist of space 26cc, Rome.
In 2006 she was selected for the Young Artists Award, Fondazione Agnelli, Torino. In 2007/2008 he held the seminar "Art and Feminism," at the chair of the Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts of Professor Cecilia Casorati, Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In 2009 she was selected by the Ratti Foundation for the Advanced Course in Visual Arts.
Francesco Lauretta
to Ispica Born in 1964, lives and works in Florence. The sphere of memory and visual memories tied to the land of origin are central to the paintings and videos of Francesco Lauretta. The detail and color are the most potent symbols of an unrealistic view of real life. The base is represented by those images that give security to the common eyes, traditions and habits of the recent past, however, enveloped by the sharpness and cleaning. In the work of Lauretta is central to the relationship between the stored images from the memory as those that are part of this.
Concetta Modica
Born in Modica in 1969, lives and works in Milan. Total attention to the overturning of codes and meanings historicized object attributes belonging to the Sicilian culture and beyond. Use the many different artistic mediums, such as videos and installations to implement deconstructions, processing and anthropological connections between distant worlds of the points under investigation by a contingency. The objects give the identity to buy another.
Sebastian Mortellaro
Born in Syracuse in 1974, lives and works in Syracuse. The search for Sebastiano Mortellaro uses multiple artistic mediums, especially video and installations. Applicant is the central reference to his homeland, Sicily, which are always highlighted different aspects: the traditions, the beauty of the countryside, local people become the protagonists of works that often masks a bitter component, with insistence on the transformations undergone by the region over the decades.
Mauro Romito
Born in Milan in 1980, lives and works in Rome and Madrid. The gaps and spaces of silence are central to the creative curiosity of Mauro Romito. The video medium is used to create actions that conceal an ironic love some human truths. The survey also turn to the relationship between the sexes, and especially on the cultural transformation of will and actions to maintain and legitimize the power of that agency. He is a founding artist of space 26cc, Rome.
Stephen Zocco
Born in 1980 in Ragusa, Modica and lives and works in Palermo. The central need of his works explore the human findings, the result of everyday practices, the object does not proceed out to dismantle a number of practical thinking, real and intellectual space to return. It uses a variety of mediums including intervening on the nature of the media. The unceasing flow of human paradoxes, Stefania Zocco has indirect interest in the more that go unnoticed causing huge gap.
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CoCA Center of Contemporary Arts
Corso Umberto No. 420, Modica
opening: March 20, 2010 h . 20:00
period: from March 20 to April 18 (Mon to Fri h. 10:00 to 12:00 / 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.)
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