On Videos for hours and hours
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ON VIDEOS for hours and hours
Curated by: VisualContainer
A idea of: Giancarlo Sciascia
Arte Boccanera Gallery, Trento, Italy
25 february – 3 march 2012
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ON VIDEOS for hours and hours
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A day dedicated to the actual trends of national and international videoart.With screenings from a compilation about the identity of the present-day video languages and times of conversation with the curators.
Women’s glance
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Women’s glance
On next november 25-29, at P.A.N. (Palazzo delle Arti Napoli)
Magmart festival, in collaboration with the collective ‘Urto!’ presents: Women’s glance, screening of videoart by women, curated by Enrico Tomaselli 12 videoartists, from Italy and other countries, show 12 videos:
Metamorphose
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South Haven Center for the Arts
Metamorphose
We are presently in the midst of an artistic uprising. The Metamorphose exhibition speaks for itself when conveying that the art world is quickly being transformed by a new media generation. The digital world is taking form and moving rapidly by way of computer, television, radio, phone and the Internet. Continue reading
Ophelia’s Pond
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Ophelia’s Pond
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oil on canvas
120 x 90 cm
2011
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Ophelia’s Pond
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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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Black Bough Doll
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oil on canvas
77 x 51 cm
2011
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Black Bough Doll
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Evil
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oil on canvas
47 x 61 cm
2011
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Evil
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Acrylic Painting
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acrylic painting
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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.
