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Kunstenaars / Artists:

_Fabiola Faidiga_Gianluca Ferrari

_Els van der Graaf_Liz Harrison_Rody Luton

_Paul Malone_Damiano Paroni

_Nicola Rae_Giorgio Tentolini

_Nikolaus Urban

Curators: Els van der Graaf and Rody Luton

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‘PRIMAVERA’ EXHIBITIONKunstruimte / Art Space PUNT WG

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_Kunstenaars uit Italie, Engeland en Nederland tonen hun persoonlijke reactie op het themaPrimavera 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 ‘fi rst truth’ are realised in diverse formats,

from made artefacts to digital projection.

‘PRIMAVERA’ EXHIBITIONKunstruimte / Art Space PUNT WG

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FABIOLA FAIDIGA

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LA CITTA’ DI ODRADEKLIVE PERFORMANCE AND MIXED-MEDIA | 2007

LA CITTA DI ODRADEK_Trieste, luogo sospeso fra terre di confi ne e estensioni marine. La fi gura immaginaria di Odradek visita una città ferma e metafi sica.

_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 fi ne, dietro al cigolio di una porta. _Il video e le fotografi e di scena sono state realizzate per partecipare alla mostra / installazione in progress ispirata al personaggio di Odradek,

fi gura / oggetto / spiritello intrigante / presente nel racconto. La preoccupazione del padre di famiglia è di Franz Kafka ed è stato presentatoper 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 indiff erent, ‘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 refl ects on the meaning of time and the importance of the past.

_These topics are tied spontaneously with the contemporary: new media is a remarkableand 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 workto concentrate on an almost meditative action, as a refl ection.

_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 environmentlighted 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 FERRARIMOUTHS

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 textexpressing the (cruel) necessity and beauty

of transition/transfi guration of matter and life._The photographs captured the very moment of this process

when the ‘objects’ with the loss of some propertiesfrom 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 formand architectural space with light, illusion and lens based projections.

_The work is often site-specifi c._Her work seeks to defi ne 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 activitiesthat are our makeup, colour and form our perceptions.

Liz Harrison

LIZ HARRISONGLASSHOUSE

MIXED-MEDIA | 2007

RESOWN WITH COLOURS BY SUCCEEDING SPRINGS_This line taken from a poem by Emily Dickinson refl ects the yearly cycle of nature.

_New life as visible in the colours of the fi elds, 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 LUTONUNTITLED

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 originand the ‘K’ eff ect of anomalous red-shift in their aquisition of mass.

Paul Malone

PAUL MALONETHE ‘K’ EFFECT

ICE BLUE PLASTIC VENDING CUPS | 2007

DAMIANO PARONI

_Even if his art was delivered by several diff erent media,

Damiano Paroni has always maintaineda 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 feelingswe perceive implosions, distances and depths, all connected by an intimate breath of infi nity.

Damiano Paroni

SENZA TITOLOMIXED-MEDIA | 2007

_'Underground Frequencies: King's Cross to North Greenwich

15 - 02 - 07' explores sounds edited from a fi lm made in connection

with the 2005 bombings in London.

_The soundtrack from the fi lmwas loaded into a sound emission

analysing computer program, which displays the sounds

as a graphic showing frequencyin relation to time.

_The fi lm was initiated whenthe news media were discussing

a fi reman's confrontationof a failed train bomber

in a trial earlier this year.

_Since Autumn 2006I have travelled regularly

to the area of London betweenTavistock Square and Russell Square,

where most people were killedor injured in the 2005 bombings.

_Two of the bomb blasts occuredwithin close proximity in this area

- one above ground ina busand the other nearly directly

below ground on the underground between King's Cross

and Russell Square. _Recording the experience

of crowded underground journeysand searching for traces

of the bombings, however slight,became important to me.

_I created a split screen projectionof images shot in Tavistock Square,

near where the bus exploded,and also a rush hour underground

journey between King's Crossand North Greenwich.

_The unnatural calm of lookinginto water as the wind

passes across it in Tavistock Square, contrasts with the experience

of unpredictable claustrophobiaand the intimacy of people

crushed together in rush hour travel.

_The selected sound frequenciesshown in Amsterdam

were displayed in cylindricalperspex jars on perspex shelves.

_Recorded in the narrow Victorian tunnels of the Piccadilly Line,

in which a bomb can causemaximum damage,

they show quite diff erentfrequency visualisations to those recorded on the new Jubilee Line

extension to North Greenwich._The sounds of the journey

are magnifi edby the enclosed spaces

and many of the uncannysounds recorded stretch well

beyond the hearingrange of humans.

Nicola Rae

NICOLA RAESOUNDBOX

MIXED-MEDIA | 2007

_With precise intention Giorgio Tentolini produceshis 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 portaitsbut 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 fi nding the intimacy of relation.

Giorgio Tentolini

GIORGIO TENTOLINIGENOMI

MIXED-MEDIA | 2007

_My projection piece is an animated visual text, commenting the successive stepsin 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 personifi cation “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 angelas he would like to be seen but just as a down-to-earth chap in a shady backstreet.

_Diff erent readings:since the text is running as a loop, one can start to read it where he is catching up,

interpret it diff erently and come to another conclusion or to no conclusion at all.

Nikolaus Urban

NIKOLAUS URBANPRIMAVERA / PRIMA DONNAVIDEOPROJECTION ON PANEL | 2007

EXHIBITION IMAGES

Fabiola Faidigawww.a2arts.co.uk

Els van der Graafwww.exhibitionow.com

Rody Lutonwww.atelierwg.nl

Damiano Paroniwww.exhibitionow.com

Giorgio Tentoliniwww.giorgiotentolini.com

Gianluca Ferrariwww.exhibitionow.com

Liz Harrisonwww.a2arts.co.uk

Paul Malonewww.a2arts.co.uk

Nicola Rae www.a2arts.co.uk

Nikolaus Urban www.deappel.nl

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