FEELINGS
Simona Andrioletti, Artan (Shalsi), Jacopo Benassi, Paolo Cavinato,
Fabio Dartizio, Jason Dodge, Gianni D'Urso, Sergio Lombardo,
Loredana Longo, Mikayel Ohanjanyan, Hanne van der Woude
Curated by
Roberto Lacarbonara
Opening: September 21, 2024, 6-10 pm
21 September – 3 November 2024
From 21 September to 3 November 2024 opens to the public Feelings, a group exhibition curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, distributed among the municipalities of Mornico al Serio and Torre Pallavicina, in the province of Bergamo.
The show includes the work of 11 international artists and is housed in four spaces, different for history and architectural features, in the small villages of the beautiful landscape between the rivers Serio and Oglio.
We perceive reality
primarily through the resistance that hurts.
Permanent anaesthesia in the palliative society
derealizes the world
[Byung-Chul-Han]
To bring back feelings in contemporary artistic discourse means to face the primordial, affective and irrational nature of man. In the emotional reaction, of immediate and automatic character, the cognitive process is reduced to a minimum, as well as the rational elaboration. In their biological, ethnological, and anthropological configuration, feelings manifest a universal physical expression, regardless of culture, history and individuality. Yet, moods and cognition interact and define the relationship between the individual and the collective, generating complex emotions at the base of empathy and motivation processes. Moreover, these primary mechanisms take on a communicative and social character, transmitting individual affections in mimetic, gestural and linguistic forms.
The exhibition Feelings brings together works and environmental installations aimed at visualizing different moods, forms of response to the demands of reality according to behavioural dynamics related to primary emotions: anger, fear, sadness, joy, surprise, expectation, disgust, acceptance [Paul Ekman].
Through this approach, even opposing to any formula of particularization and immersivity - solutions too often pursued in the contemporary artistic context - the exhibition intends to cross the depth of the unspeakable feeling, allowing artists and the public to take a position of reciprocity, exchange, even - if still possible - empathy.
The exhibition is spread over historic houses, palaces, churches and farmhouses located in two villages of the province of Bergamo.
In the fourteenth century Cascina Castello in MORNICO AL SERIO- already shooting set of the movie L'albero degli zoccoli by Ermanno Olmi, winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978 – the show explores themes of affective relationship and romantic ties, both through the series of sculptures Legami [Ties] of the Armenian artist Mikayel Ohanjanyan, and through a photographic report of the Dutch artist Hanne van der Woude who enters into family intimacy and the path of suffering and death of a man next to his companion in life. A sculpture by the American artist Jason Dodge, consisting of a pair of illuminating bodies, also directs reflection towards the always asymmetrical condition, imperfect and complementary of every human relationship.
In TORRE PALLAVICINA, in the fiftteenth century Tristano Tower, a sound and light installation by Paolo Cavinato dialogues with the balanced and measured spatiality of the medieval building, bringing back the process of perceptive and emotional self-control to the organic and vital component of the breath: three huge monolithic sculptures simulate the physiological mechanism involved in in the regulation of ventilation.
Nearby, the noble floor of Palazzo Oldofredi Tadini Botti, summer residence of the Sforza built in the 16th century, hosts the artists Loredana Longo, Simona Andrioletti, Gianni D'Urso and Artan (Shalsi),called to reflect on the expressions of conflict, struggle and violence, in addition to the will to confirm and defend ethical causes and fundamental human rights.
In the former church of San Rocco, a large installation by Jacopo Benassi alludes to the opposite processes of memory and forgetfulness: preservation and removal of memory, image and emotions are antithetical but equivalent survival strategies.
In the stables and in the historic cellars of the same Palace, finally, is placed the work Progetto di morte per avvelenamento [Death by poisoning project] by Sergio Lombardo, a work from 1970 that investigates the most insidious and liminal characteristics of human fragility in the life of an individual struggling with the choice of death (own or others).
These interventions are joined by the "widespread" presence of the work of Fabio Dartizio, composed of four different marble plates, posted in each of the four exhibition locations and related by thematic and sentimental affinities.
The exhibition is organized by Associazione Pianura da scoprire under the patronage of municipalities of Mornico al Serio and Torre Pallavicina and supported by:
INFORMATION
Feelings
Simona Andrioletti, Artan (Shalsi), Jacopo Benassi, Paolo Cavinato, Fabio Dartizio, Jason Dodge, Gianni D'Urso, Sergio Lombardo, Loredana Longo, Mikayel Ohanjanyan, Hanne van der Woude.
Curated by Roberto Lacarbonara
Period: 21 September – 3 November 2024
Exhibition Venues:
Cascina Castello, via Zerra, Mornico al Serio (BG)
Palazzo Oldofredi Tadini Botti and Church of San Rocco, via San Rocco 1, Torre Pallavicina (BG)
Tristano Tower, via San Rocco 3, Torre Pallavicina (BG)
General Informations:
Associazione Pianura da scoprire
Piazzale Mazzini 2 – 24047 Treviglio (BG)
info@pianuradascoprire.it | tel. +39 0363 301452 | www.pianuradascoprire.it
Press Office:
Sara Zolla | press@sarazolla.com | mob. +39 346 8457982
Breaths
Enamelled wood, steel, LED light circuit with fade timer, stereo system (Sound by Stefano Trevisi)
approx. dimensions: 245 x 90 x 60 cm
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