Italiano
My attention goes especially to themes that concern the individual and the identity in the current society of information and technology, hence to the economic and cultural processes that define the social dynamics, to processes of globalization and exclusion, to the invasivity of the multimedia world and to the pervasiveness of technology. I think it is important to develop a survival strategy starting from your own marginality; to decolonize your own imagination from those values that tend to homogenisation in order to formulate new hypothesis of participation.
Arte Tag: ecologia e ambientalismo
ZEGRA production
The art of ZEGRA explores the intersection of linguistic and bodily perception, in light of the Italian feminist philosophy of difference. This work attempts to bridge the divide between abstract moral values and their manifestation as relational, sensible, realities.
ZEGRA poetry production is primarily connected to Enrica Giannuzzi’s activity as a philosopher ((http://www.iaphitalia.org/) and theater reviewer (http://nucleoartzine.com/), but it is also made up of multiple dialogues with visual artists and translators.
Stefano Scheda
I have always tried to catch the ‘short circuits’ of reality without altering their objective appearance. I try instead to let one feel at a second glance their waste, their boss-eye, their elsewhere. Since my first artistic research based on the relationship between body and architecture I have gradually moved to investigating social problematics such as: immigration, racism (Di-visione 2007/2010), fear and threat (Meteo 2004), national identity and the feminine condition (Le sfoglie di Garibaldi 2001) and lately, the problematic gender (Roll n’Roll 2009); installations or performances that often become photographic sequences and videos. The Fuoridentro series, through the recurrent motif of the mirror, involves its audience as being guilty of charge in its provocatory and irritating game. The game’s production is an interrogation on the threshold as changeable aperture-closure of the contemporary gaze. All my work is however created through dynamic ductility and leads to speculating on reality’s own perception and its possible translations; possibly a way of giving the spectator the difficult task of distinguishing illusion from reality. This spatial opposition is not just a physical condition, it is also a spiritual and cognitive one. The performative-relational aspect I have been experimenting in T(r)ATTO is the ideal following to the performance Looking for the body of the Artist, staged by me at the Galleria Martina Detterer of Frankfurt: the naked artist in a dark room as something invisible but tangible by the visitor/explorer.
Roberta Orlando
Blending the simplicity of images in the continuous quest of experimenting without boundaries, Roberta Orlando creates, elaborates and develops the digital impact of visual communication together with the synchronicity of sound exploring troubled, intimate and reflexive territories as well as observing the sensitivity of bodies, sounds and the environments surrounding the realm of senses. Working with photography, video and live media in Europe and US, Orlando’s main topic of research is focused on performance and gender identity (with particular attention to sexual-orientation discrimination). Her works have been exhibited in various public spaces, art galleries and museum all over Europe (Italy, Germany, UK, Spain, France, Norway, Austria, Netherlands, Estonia, Poland, Switzerland, Croatia, Belgium, Greece, Sweden…), USA (New York, Illinois, Florida, California, Pennsylvania) and Canada (Ontario). In 2014 she organised and curated the festival of performance Teoremi with the Archivio Queer Italia and CUNtemporary at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea of Villa Croce in Genova.
Luminiţa Țăranu
Born in Lugoj, Romania in 1960, Luminiţa Țăranu graduated at the Fine Art Academy of Bucharest in 1993.
When she first moved to Italy in 1987 to live and work, she was also prized the “Borsa Nazionale dell’Unione degli Artisti Plastici della Romania,” a bursary aimed to fund Romanian artists for their practice. Catone defines her work as “the reflection of a path that’s like the movement going through space and time within a dialectical and evolutionary transformation. The main idea behind this entire trajectory is the “metamorphosis,” its “mutation” and eventually its most poetic moment “the metaphor.” This finds artistic expression in graphic (drawing, lithography, etching, silk-screen printing) and pictorial forms as well as digital, material and performative installations.
Beyond the discovery of thought and idea becoming a plastic take, the artist has always found fundamental the material research and its correct technical support. Within the classical dichotomy of content and form she has always tried to experiment, eventually achieving rigorous ways of expressing her message. Her work, both based on research and exposition, is structured in themes serially-developed. Throughout the years she has held many personal and group exhibitions in public and private spaces, museums and galleries both in Italy and abroad.