The exhibition presents Gianna Parisse’s work Mundus Patet, shown for the first time in Italy, an installation composed of different photographic, audio and video elements, which invites us to enter a poetic path of research on the meaning of a place: a house and all that concerns it before and after the Amatrice earthquake of 2016.
The installation inhabits the three rooms of the Luigi Di Sarro Center, with a composition of 171 images of stones collected from the location by the artist; a table, where two display cases containing 342 photographs of glass objects and branches collected from the apple orchard of the house are arranged; a video projection (4′ 43″), whose soundtrack spreads throughout the three exhibition spaces.
The work is composed of fragments aimed at suggesting the dichotomy between the subtle dialogue of man-made elements with elements of nature, and the silent rumbling of the delicate balance between man and nature.
Gianna Parisse’s meticulous work of researching and stitching together the numerous fragments using a portable scanner, a camera and audio recordings, results in an installation that, in its simplicity and essentialism, is immersive and engaging.
The title of the work, Mundus Patet, refers to an ancient Roman festival, which took place every year on the 24th of August at the Palatine Hill and celebrated the world of the dead, but more importantly that which is hidden underground, the soil, the earth. August 24 is also the date of the Amatrice earthquake. The land which embraced the house for many years, the land inhabited by the house, shifts, changes its course, and from a place that welcomes it becomes a place that encompasses it, that reappropriates what has emerged.
The artist’s work restores the intimacy of what has been submerged and investigates the intricacies and veins uncovered by the action of nature on man, and man on nature.
Gianna Parisse artist, architect, PhD, has dedicated herself to the research of the relationship between art and architecture for many years. More recently, she graduated in painting and specialized in graphic arts, particularly in the technology of paper materials, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. She has exhibited in Italy and abroad: Dresden, Germany; Seoul, Korea; and New York, USA.
Francesca Brugola – Italy, Rebecca D’Eramo – South Africa/Cyprus, Natalie Hasan – Cyprus, Biel Llinàs – Spain, Pia Truscott – South Africa and in the role of curator Angelica Piras – Italy, are the six young winners who will arrive in Rome to participate in the residency Hic et Nunc workshop n.3 which investigates the concept of contemporary.
They were selected by the jury composed of the Director of ARP Alessandra Atti Di Sarro, the curator, critic and art historian Simone Ciglia and the art historian and professor Carlotta Sylos Calò.
The workshop talk program is an exciting cavalcade between the most discussed themes of contemporary art debate, and will take place with a group of esteemed professors, scholars, researchers and art critics and curators. Most of the programs will take place at Centro Di Sarro and in Museums, archeological sites and other locations in Rome, but thanks to the hospitality of Fondazione Morra Greco the workshop will take the opportunity to have also a stage in Naples.
Return of the residency is the Pack and go circuit which allows the winning artists to show and discuss their work and the curator to create the concept of the events. Thanks to the participation of the Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture and the support and collaboration of the Italian Cultural Institutes of Barcelona, the 10th Edition of ARP, after Rome, will move to Spain with a new show that will fall within the initiatives of the 20th Contemporary Day promoted by Amaci-Mic-Maeci.
The Centro Luigi Di Sarro presents the “POZI” project by the students of the Architecture and Design Course at the University of Cape Town (UCT), which arrives in Rome thanks to the collaboration with the Embassy of South Africa.
On display are the visionary works of the artists who participated in the project, conceived and led by the South African artist Giggs Kgole.
The project, accompanied by Kgole himself, demonstrates not only the skill of these budding architects, but also stimulates their ability to engage in global contexts and artistic expressions.
The collaboration with Giggs Kgole, active internationally, “symbolizes the bridge between local talent and global opportunities”, as Professor Buhle Mathole writes “the students explored and interpreted the essence of Kgole’s artistic world, developing environments that are more than simple work spaces: they are reflections of creative synergy and cultural dialogues.”
Young artists/curators, under the age of 30, from Europe, Africa and the Balkans can participate. Applications by 14 July 2024. Focus of the program, which will take place in September-October 2024, is the Hic et Nunc workshop which delves into the concept of the contemporary with a series of meetings and visits. Return of the residency is the Pack and go circuit which allows the winning artists to show and discuss their work and the curator to create the concept of the events.
Anna Maria Antoinette D’Addario Deep in Their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light, curated by Simone Azzoni e Francesca Marra
Giordana Citti/Annalaura Tamburrini Anima Naturae, curated by Marco Rapaccini
Vernissage: Saturday 4 May 2024 at 6.30 pm
Man and the environment are part of an ecosystem in which fragility, temporality and persistence, slowness and sedimentation coexist. The two projects that the Centro Luigi Di Sarro exhibits trace the line of this dialogue on the ephemeral memory of the relationship between man and nature.
Anna Maria Antoinette D’Addario is an Italian-Australian photographic artist, writer and book maker. Her work revolves around the investigation and resurrection of memory and our emotional connection to place. She has published two artist books, Farewell Angelina (2018) and Deep in Their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light (ceiba Editions 2019). Anna holds a MFA in Fine Art, Sydney College of the Arts, and is a current PhD candidate at Monash University in Fine Art.
This work began as a response to the sudden and violent death of my sister in 2015 and gradually became a path to live and make sense of life again. It was an act of resistance, an attempt to speak in the face of silence. With her murder, time stopped, all became fractured and fragmented. I, together with my mother and all who loved her, were drawn into an obscure world without her, a world broken and changed.
As children my sister and I spent hours in the bush, and by the ocean. After her loss I sought to regain the connection to the landscape that existed in my memory and reflected our origins, a desire to be clear again in my understanding of it. Landscape endures. It takes and hold its form. Landscape speaks in my work, in part, in its resilience, of survival in the present and for survival of the past; it holds memories; it speaks of connections, but it also speaks of violence and irretrievable loss. It represents then, continuity and also absence, it stands for what can never be lost and for all that has been lost; it embodies trauma and it embodies endu- rance, the persistence of which no violence can erase.
My sister was thirty-five when her life was taken. Her future has been lost and the past and our childhood has been altered and affected. The knowledge and weight of our history has only one side now, one gaze, and one recollection. Here I accompany my sister in story, photos of myself as a child mirror and connect with those of Daniela. We break silence together, identities entwined.
This project was conceived through the creation of an artist’s book, Farewell Angelina, and a successive photo book, Deep in Their Roots, All Flower Keep the Light. (Anna Maria Antoinette D’Addario)
What is then left of the landscape when the people who loved it, lived in it, are no longer there? Powerlessness and absence do not turn a place into a view, a space into a landscape. Representation, which attempts to repair the trauma of loss, cannot be a layer of memory above others.
“My spaces are fragile: time will consume them, destroy them: nothing will no longer resemble what it was,” wrote Georges Perec. If memory can erase, trauma can instead hold the glimpse of what was. Memories reinvent, narrate, betray, trauma instead fixes. The fracture pierces the veil of the landscape, not repairs it. The violent tear of loss cannot but lacerate representation – even of the usual landscape – and open the Montale’s wonder. (Simone Azzoni)
Giordana Citti was born in Rome in 1993. In 2012, she began attending evening courses in photography and darkroom printing at Officine Fotografiche, training with te- acher Samantha Marenzi. After graduating in “History and conservation of the artistic and archaeological heritage”, he decided to devote himself full-time to photography by enrolling in the Biennial School of Photography at Officine Fotografiche Roma. He first became a darkroom assistant and later refined his professional training by starting an internship at Davide di Gianni’s Digid’a Art Prints workshop in Rome. He currently teaches darkroom courses at Officine Fotografiche, attends the Faculty of “Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage”, concerning the restoration of book and photographic material, at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and works in the photographic archives of the National Film Library of the Experimental Centre of Cinematography in Rome.In 2021 he was among the ten artists selected to take part in the photography masterclass Contatto of the Istituto Luce Cinecittà and TWM Factory. He has taken part in many exhibitions in recent years: Of Analogica on the occasion of Fotoleggendo (2016), Female in March, a group exhibition of female photographers at Lanificio (2018), Temporary Wall, an open air exhibition at Fotoleggendo (2018), The Family of no Man for Arles cosmos (2018), In Praise of Imperfection at Fondamenta gallery (2019), GeneraHumana on the occasion of the Genera Festival (2019) in Cister- nino, Walk With Women on the occasion of the MedFilmFestival in Rome (2019), Hier, mais aussi aujourd’hui, solo exhibition at the Fusion Art Gallery in Turin (2020), The Darkroom Projet Otto, group exhibition curated by Luciano Corvaglia, at the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in San Martino al Cimino (2020), Contatto, at WeGil (2021), MarteLive, national finalist Biennale MarteLive at Planet Roma (2021), Premio Daniela Semprebene, exhibition of the winners of the visual arts sections MarteLive Lazio 2021, at the ART G. A.P. Gallery, Rome (2022), Tevere Art Gallery/Arles 2022, collective photographic exhibition curated by Luciano Corvaglia on the occasion of Les Rencontres d’Arles, in “Arles Exposition-Off”(2022), MarteLive: Lo spettacolo totale, national finalist Biennale MarteLive, at Qube, Rome (2022), Venere Vs Medusa on the occasion of Paratissima, at Cavallerizza Torino (2023).
Annalaura Tamburrini was born in Fasano in 1994. She trained as a photographer at the “Officine Fotografiche” school in Rome where, during the period from 2015 to 2019, she deepened her knowledge of darkroom practices, black and white printing and ancient printing techniques under the guidance of teacher Samantha Marenzi. During this path, she has the opportunity to exhibit and curate various photographic projects within the local independent scene. In June 2017, during the international photo- graphy festival ‘FotoLeggendo’, she participates in the group exhibition ‘Analogica 2017’. In February 2018, she presents the project “Sono una strega” at the Cinema Palazzo Occupato in Rome as part of the group exhibition “Tecne”. In May 2018, she co-curates the exhibition cycle “Analogies”, presented at the Officine Fotografiche school in Rome. In the same month, she exhibited the project ‘Sono una strega’ within the same cycle. Also in May 2018, she co-curates the exhibition ‘Nel corpo dell’immagine’, part of the international photography festival ‘FotoLeggendo’ in Rome. In February 2019, he took part in the group exhibition ‘In Praise of Imperfection’ with the project ‘Moral to Censorship’ at the Inside Art Gallery in Rome. In August 2019, she curates the international group exhibition ‘GeneraHumana’ at the Torre Civica in Cisternino. From 2020, after moving to Turin, she collaborates with the cultural association Mostro Collettivo. From 2023 she is represented by the Raw Messina gallery in Rome and collaborates actively with Gabriele Stabile. In January 2024 she exhibits in Bologna, in the context of the Arte Fiera fuoriisalone, during the Booming Art Show in an exhibition curated by Raw Messina, entitled ‘La vita sognata dagli angeli’.
The Anima Naturae project aims to portray the contrast between the fleeting es- sence of humanity and the timeless spirit of nature. Each diptych pairs a weathered stone portrait, bearing the marks of time, mold, and the relentless forces of weathering, with an untouched photograph capturing the pristine landscape. The stone portrait serves as a tangible testament to the vulnerability of the human soul over time, narrating a story of transience conti- nually shaped by transformative elements in its natural habitat. On the flip side, earth unfolds as the epicenter of an eternal animation of nature, presenting an ideal and idyllic realm that underscores primordial soul and spirituality, untouched by human manipulation.
Through this visual reflection, viewers are invited to contemplate the duality offragility and strength, transience and persistence, fostering a profound aware- ness of the intricate connections between humanity and the broader living world. Anima Naturae emerges as a conceptual bridge, blurring the boundaries betwe- en human finiteness and the boundless vitality of nature, illustrating how, despite human endeavors, we inevitably yield to the unstoppable power of the natural world, prompting reflection on the sustainability of our interactions with the planet. All photographs are made with black and white analog film [portraits with 135mm, landscapes with 120mm]. (Giordana Citti and Annalaura Tamburrini)
With the theme HIC ET NUNC (here and now) and the pack and go formula, this ninth edition of the ARP-Art Residency Project continues the investigation into the concept of the contemporary by putting young talents to the test in relation to the handling of the work, the discussion of practices and methods and the search for a set-up solution that adapts to each different circumstance. The pack and go has planned three stages for the 9th Edition of ARP: Rome, Bienno in Val Camonica and Tirana in Albania. The exhibition events were created taking into account the peculiarities of the environments, whose spatial articulation made it possible to highlight the projects and requests of the five protagonists, who present distinct, but not distant from each other, points of observation of the contemporary. Preceded by moments of substantial discussion with experts in the sector on fundamental themes, such as the role of art and that of its innumerable actors, the first exhibition stage at the Centro Di Sarro in Rome was organized into thematic sections, based on language, materials and poetic. This is how Azzurra Pizzi (Italy), winner of the curator selection this year, introduces her presentation of the events. And in her presentation text she leads us to discover the 5 winning artists and their works.
Beatrice Caruso – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
Beatrice Caruso – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
Anna Martynenko – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
Anna Martynenko – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
Samela Balazi – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
Samela Balazi – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
Miriro Mwandiambira – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
Miriro Mwandiambira – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
Cheriese Dilrajh – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
Cheriese Dilrajh – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
Showing her intimate sphere, Samela Balazi (Albania) makes known her drawing practice and the use of natural pigment, ideal for transferring immediate authenticity to the raw canvas. Making her own the widespread practice of dry stone wall construction, Beatrice Caruso (Italy) presents her assemblages made up of irregular wooden wedges and collages to address the challenging topic of repositioning elsewhere. Convinced that art is a tool for answering questions relating to our personal growth, Anna Martynenko (Ukraine-Germany) with her deck of illustrated cards triggers an investigation mechanism aimed at exploring our personality between static and consolidated positions and new openings of acceptance of the most rejected side of ourselves. Disciple of the ritual of walking Cheriese Dilrajh (South Africa) presents photographic montages, whose composite aspect reveals simultaneous visions elaborated by synaesthetically experiencing the melting pot offered by the Fordsburg market in Johannesburg, a place with a difficult past now full of lively realities. Trespassing into the field of performance and using the sound medium, Miriro Mwandiambira (Zimbabwe) intends to bring attention to the role of the woman-artist free from conventions and capable of fighting for social redemption. (from the text by Azzurra Pizzi in the ARP9Ed catalogue)
A work that reflects the contemporary to be carried with you in hand luggage. This is the challenge for 5 winning artists and a curator of the ninth edition of the ARP – PACK AND GO competition: a residency-workshop that questions and investigates the notion of the contemporary.
ARP – Art Residency Project is the artistic residency programme, conceived and created by the Luigi Di Sarro Centre, with the aim of promoting a disposition towards intercultural dialogue and the comparison of practices and methods in the world of art too. For its ninth edition it once again proposed the PACK AND GO formula, that is, the challenge of conceiving and creating a work that represents one’s idea of contemporaneity and which is easily transportable to allow maximum mobility.
We live in difficult years and even for artists, especially emerging young people, the slowdown, if not the forced blockade, of social relations created by the covid-19 pandemic, wars and the economic crisis has represented and represents an obstacle. The ARP program has always worked by promoting educational trips, but with this formula it wants to go further and attempt to cross not only geographical borders, but also emotional ones.
It was thought that a project that started from the analysis of the idea of the contemporary would offer fertile ground for returning to dialogue, confrontation, opposition and sharing.
The young artists selected Samela Balazi, Beatrice Caruso, Cheriese Dilrajh, Anna Martynenko and Mirino Mwandiambira and Azzurra Pizzi as curator come from European, Balkan and African countries.
The jury that selects the artists is made up of Alessandra Atti Di Sarro, Simone Ciglia and Carlotta Sylos Calò.
The Hic et Nunc workshop n.2 will be attended among others experts by Angelo Capasso, Simone Ciglia, Heidi Erdmann, Carlotta Sylos Calò, Matteo Piccioni and Alessandra Troncone, curated by Alessandra Atti Di Sarro.
The jury, Alessandra Atti Di Sarro, Simone Ciglia and Carlotta Sylos Calò, has chosen the young winners who will arrive in Rome at the end of September. The group of winners will participate in the workshop which will investigate the notion of the contemporary. Here you can read the profiles of the winners.
ARP is the cultural and educational exchange program in the visual arts, conceived and promoted by the Centro di Documentazione della Ricerca Artistica Contemporanea Luigi Di Sarro, with the contribution of MAECI – Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Media Aid Onlus and with the collaboration of Rainbow Media NPO.
