Earth
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oil on canvas
90 x 84 cm
2011
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Earth
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This painting is about the earth. It is so because the earth is the place that welcomes all of us when we are unable to stand, or walk. When we have a problem with our balance, the earth is there to protect us, and will guide us through the recovery of our right senses, and of our conscious life.
When I made this painting I was excited about the outcome of the doll’s body, it was an incredible discovery that I could render the lights, and shadows of the feet, legs and trunk so well, so naturally, with no need to make things perfect, and with just a few brush strokes, things would come out so plausible. I decided then to make the face, and it hasn’t turned out to be so convincing.
But I did not want to change it, because I thought perfection in this case was not needed: we have the face of a puppet, and the atmosphere of this painting is uncanny, wants to be sinister. Therefore why to make the doll’s face more human?
The message is one of “transformation of pain”, “transfiguration”, so even if the nose wouldn’t return a mathematical perfection in its lightings, I left the features distorted intentionally, so the sensation that some sort of unstable dream is going on stays with the viewer.
I wanted to create the flashback of a dream: the picture is like a film frame that would pass, like a lightning strike, trough the length of the film, a sudden opening of light into the unconscious mind of the viewer/author/protagonist.
This earth painting is one of a series of paintings that represent the concept of ground as an important resource of reconstitution. It is the ever resting place for the body: in my imaging a ground not very detailed, rather blank and anonymous, but yet still very present and important for understanding the transitional state of the Nigredo.
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Earth
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Chessboards
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Chessboards
The chessboard is a playground. Visually a floor with no patterns would convey the feeling of inconsistency: it could become a slippery floor, one with no reference points, no distinction between near and far, and maybe no clear divide between the sky and the earth.
The checkered floor indicates me precisely where it begins and where it ends, it also makes me recognize any of its irregularities, the lines that cross it make me be sure of bumps and holes, I feel secure on it, and I would definitely better dance with my feet on it rather than choose a one color floor.
Italian Container
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Italian Container
ACCEA Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan
A one-day-event Italian Container: the emerging Italian video art comes to Yerevan project. The event is curated by Carolina Lio, the currently curator-in-residence at ACOSS Cultural NGO in Yerevan, and supported by European Cultural Foundation of Amsterdam and the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation in New York through ‘Step Beyond’ travel grant. A sequence of fourteen videos will be screened during the evening.
Art Shake Festival
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ART SHAKE Festival III edition part 2 >>>Berlin
1 Night of 15 Video Installations, Performance and Live Set
ART SHAKE Festival: Contemporary arts festival Created and directed by Emanuela De Notariis
Unbroken beat of soul
UNBROKEN BEAT OF SOUL
International Contemporary Video art
at the third Mediterranean laity festival
15 – 24 october 2010
Ex Aurum Pescara – Italy
Unbroken
Since it is granted an essential body centre (the heartbeat) which allows an unconscious, unintentional biological life, can we think of a similar place allowing the existence as human being, as ‘persona’ and identity, as awareness and conscious relationship with the outer world and the others?
PIXILERATIONS [v.7]
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PIXILERATIONS [v.7]
New Media Fringe Festival @ FirstWorks.
video art screening
270 Westminster Street Providence,
Rhode Island – USA
September 30-October 10, 2010
in Providence, Rhode Island
PIXILERATIONS [v.7] is a new media showcase in Providence, Rhode Island that investigates the state of new media arts through installations, concert performances and film/video screenings. It is part of the larger FirstWorks Festival (www.first-works.org), a multidimensional performing arts festival held in Providence each fall.
Jamais Vu
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Jamais Vu (never seen)
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This evening for the exhibition organized by Agnes Casolani “Jamais Vu”, at the Rose est la vie Rose Garden, in Thaulero 12 Rd, Barbara Agreste will present a selection of her new paintings from her “Spine Flowers” series. The exhibition will be up until the 9th of August.