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HIC ET NUNC n2 – THE EXHIBITION. For the 19GdC Amaci and with the support of the MAECI in Rome the first stage of the PACK AN GO. Followed by a stop in Val Camonica, Lozio and Bienno, and finally Tirana, Albania, for the 9th Edition of the ARP-Art Residency Project.

October 15, 2023

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)

ARP 7Edition. co-existence the final show in Rome. Opening 14 Dec 2019.

December 15, 2019

Giulia Fumagalli and Alessio Barchitta from Italy, Viktoria Nianiou and Salvador Gomez from Spain, Zana Masombuka and Grace Mokalapa from South Africa, are the 6 young winners artists of ARP 7Edition. From the 14th of December 2019 to the 18th of January 2020 they will be on show with co-existence, the exhibition that concludes the art residency project between Cape Town, Granada e Rome.

ARP is a program of international residencies organized by Centro Luigi Di Sarro, with the collaboration of Rainbow Media NPO. ARP is aimed at engaging young artists under 30 with geographical and interpersonal exchanges. ARP 7th Edition – Talents Exchange has been made possible thanks to the contribution of the MAECI-Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and to Media Aid Onlus and My Cape Town. The exchange project between South Africa and Italy began in 2009 and since then more than twenty-five artists have travelled and worked between the two countries.

The present edition, took place in Cape Town, Granada, and Rome, adding a second stage in Europe. In November and December 2019 the Talent Exchange followed a new format: an itinerant route where each artist will have the opportunity to work on a research project in constant dialogue with the environment and the rest of the group. The participants have different stories and artistic background: Giulia Fumagalli and Alessio Barchitta come from Milan but Alessio was born in Sicily, Salvador Gomez comes from Barcelona whereas Viktoria Nianiou has studied in Spain but was born in Greece. Lastly, Grace Mokalapa and Zana Masombuka both live in Johannesburg.

Meteoriti a Roma – Giorgio Russi – curated by Antonello Rubini – Opening March 9th at 6.00 pm.

February 12, 2019

“I think it is not difficult to immediately realize that the most relevant key to reading for the intelligence of Giorgio Russi’s painting regards the dream-like dimension”. So the great Enrico Crispolti – who worked closely with Russi, at least for all the eighties, considering him then one of the most significant figures emerging in the Italian artistic landscape – opened the part dedicated to him in his text in the catalog of shows Casciello, Gadaleta, Russi. A current triangulation, held at the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea of Arezzo in 1986. A statement, therefore, of more than thirty years ago, but which besides well framing the imaginative area of making of Russians of that period, the best known (among the most iconic celestial landscapes dominated by the presence of strongly disquieting birds, first, and more essential scenarios, now more less vaguely landscaped inhabited by mysterious “flames”, then), is perfectly fitting also to the current work of the artist , which constitutes the present exhibition. And it is the sign not only of a coherence, of a continuity (even if his art has made its way since then), but of the existence of a certain field to which Russi necessarily continues to respond, thus feeling almost always intimately as own. (…) Antonello Rubini

On show 20-25 recent works by Giorgio Russi including paintings and sculptures.

Giorgio Russi was born in Turin on December 29, 1946, he lives and works in Treviso. After the Diploma of Art Master and Applied Arts Maturity he obtained the Diploma of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome under the guidance of Pericle Fazzini. From 1971 to 1988 he was a lecturer in Sculpture at the State Art High School of Teramo. Since the early eighties he has carried out an intense and significant artistic activity by participating in numerous national and international exhibitions. Winner of the National Competition, from 1988 to 2011 he was Dean of the Liceo Artistico Statale di Treviso.

SEGNI. Photographs, drawings and sculptures by Luigi Di Sarro, curated by Carlotta Sylos Calò. 11 October- 14 November 2018 MLAC – Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome

September 23, 2018

In the fortieth anniversary of the death of Luigi Di Sarro, the exhibition organized by the MLAC with Centro Di Sarro offers a glimpse of the production of Luigi Di Sarro between the 1960s and the 1970s, highlighting the transversal nature of his approach to techniques and materials and his characteristic conception of the “sign” as a generative element of shapes and spaces, without a real caesura between abstraction and figuration, evident both in graphic and pictorial work, and in photography and sculpture.

Di Sarro, avid experimenter in his artistic activity, has practiced drawing, painting, engraving, sculpture, photography and performance, focusing in particular on themes related to the body, movement, light and abstraction capacity of the sign and the geometric figures. Di Sarro died only thirty-seven years old, killed for a fatal misunderstanding in the tense climate of the years of lead in Rome, on February 24, 1979; he left a vast artistic production (paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, graphics, projects, notes, aphorisms). Works by Luigi Di Sarro are in several Italian and foreign public collections (including GNAM, MACRO, Palazzo Braschi and the National Institute for Graphic Design in Rome, Pompidou Center in Paris).</p>

Active since 1987, the Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea-MLAC, directed by Prof. Claudio Zambianchi, has been proposed since the beginning as a meeting place between the university and the contemporary cultural world, distinguishing itself for its vocation to research and training. Among the initiatives that have animated the program for thirty years, there are exhibitions, conferences, round tables, book presentations, festivals, video reviews and musical proposals, which aim at first hand to put in contact the most lively artistic and cultural realities of the moment with the students and scholars of the University, often coming to involve them actively. In the same way, the will to open up to the city is strong, involving all citizens through the proposal of a very varied program.
Exhibitions and events promoted and organized by the MLAC take place in the spaces set aside in 1985 by the La Sapienza University of Rome, at the Rettorato Building, in the heart of the University City.

www.museolaboratorioartecontemporanea.it

On the occasion of organizing and carrying out the exhibition the MLAC offers a possibility of internship to students who have an interest in deepening in the field the craft of the historian and art critic in all facets. The internship foresees, in fact, an active commitment both during the preparation stage, with the possibility of working in close contact with the curators, and during the opening period of the exhibition, managing the guided tours, the reception of visitors and, last but not least , all the work related to the promotion of the exhibition, learning to manage the various online communication channels, from the blog to the main social networks.

LUIGI DI SARRO’S SELF-PORTRAITS ON SHOW AT ROCCA ROVERESCA IN SENIGALLIA – 2018 AUGUST 25th

August 25, 2018

FOR THE ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SELF-TIMER AT THE ROCCA ROVERESCA: GIORGIO BONOMI CALLED 150 ITALIAN ARTISTS TO SENIGALLIA. THE EXHIBITION AT THE ROCCA ALSO RECOGNIZES THE HISTORY AND THE NEW ACQUISITIONS OF THE ITALIAN ARCHIVES OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SELF-PORTRAIT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MUSINF. On show are works by Piergiorgio Branzi, Franco Fontana, Maria Mulas, Nino Migliori, Aldo Tagliaferro, Mario Giacomelli, of whom Musinf preserves and exhibits all over the world, many of the most famous works, Luigi Di Sarro, Stefania Beretta, Luigi Erba, Maurizio Gabbana, Antonio D’Agostino, Edoardo Romagnoli, Licinio Sacconi, Brigitte Tast, Miriam Colognesi, Marco Circhirillo, Donatella Spaziani, Francesca Della Toffola and many others.

Musinf has two works by Di Sarro in his collection.

IL MITO DEL POP PERCORSI ITALIANI – curated by Silvia Pegoraro – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Armando Pizzinato, Pordenone, 2017 May 13th – October 8th

May 10, 2017

There was an Italian way to Pop and it was absolutely original. Silvia Pegoraro highlights this exhibition with the strong criticism that brings together at the Galleria d’Arte moderna e Contemporanea Armando Pizzicato di Pordenone, about 70 works, most precious and some never before exhibited. An exhibition project aimed at highlighting the peculiarity and originality of the Italian way to Pop Art.

“It is time,” says the Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Pordenone, Pietro Tropeano, to begin the deepening and reinterpretation of an Italian art movement of great importance, such as that of Pop Art, which in Italy had many protagonists in a most lively period of contemporary art in our country. ”

1964 is the year of the triumph of American Pop Art at the Venice Biennale, but at the same time there are between Rome and Milan, artists who have expressed the best of Italian pop art.

“The italian and european way, before the references to the artistic tradition, is manifested in the strong instance of craftsmanship / manual capability – the Curator says – far from the purely industrial techniques used by american Pop Art. An originality that is confirmed by the works on show. Highlighting, it is above all the inclination of Italians to work on cultural stereotypes, rather than merely on commodity objects and images of mass communication, with a more explicit manipulation of images. ”

On show: Valerio Adami, Franco Angeli, Enrico Baj, Gianfranco Baruchello, Gianni Bertini, Umberto Bignardi, Marisa Busanel, Mario Ceroli, Claudio Cintoli, Lucio Del Pezzo, Bruno Di Bello, Luigi Di Sarro, Tano Festa, Giosetta Fioroni, Piero Gilardi, Ettore Innocente, Sergio Lombardo, Renato Mambor, Gino Marotta, Titina Maselli, Aldo Mondino, Pino Pascali, Concetto Pozzati, Mimmo Rotella, Mario Schifano, Cesare Tacchi, Emilio Tadini, Giulio Turcato.

The exhibition is promoted and organized by the Cultural Council of the Municipality of Pordenone, in collaboration with Ente Regionale per il Patrimonio Culturale della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, with the sponsor of Fondazione Friuli, and the contribution of Crédit Agricole Friuladria e Itas Mutua.

Opening: saturday 13 may 2017 at 6pm

Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Armando Pizzinato, Pordenone

Viale Dante, 33

the exhibition will run: 13 may – 8 october 2017 (wed-sun h. 3pm-7pm)

Catalogue italian/english curated by Silvia Pegoraro