On the 23rd of June RAVE 2024 comes to life with the opening of the collective exhibition Under the same tree.
The exhibition is physically rooted in the historic village of Soleschiano di Manzano, among the old stone houses and centuries-old plants. The participating artists are: Camilla Alberti, Antonio Bardino, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Loretta Cappanera, Simona Da Pozzo, Igor Grubić, Ilare, Ryts Monet, Liliana Moro, Ivan Moudov, Maria Elisabetta Novello, Penzo+Fiore, Anna Pontel, Fabiola Porchi, Laura Pozzar, Nada Prlja, Janis Rafa, Eleonora Rinaldi, Giuseppe Stampone.
RAVE deals with the role of contemporary art in relation to the need to rethink ourselves through biocentrism and antispeciesism. It is curated by Tiziana and Isabella Pers.
It’s Raining Gods (& Goddesses) book presentation with: Chiara Pirozzi, Maria Corbi, Simona Da Pozzo
The annual Made in Ex-Voto edition with which Simona Da Pozzo shares her Atlas dei Corpi research.
This second publication recounts the development generated by the collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum in Naples in the frame of the homonymous exhibition. The book is a conversation, through different voices, about the way the Nile traverses time, in both directions.
It’s Raining Gods (& Goddesses)
14,8×21 cm, digital print on recycled paper, 50 copies, november 2023. Contributions (texts and images): Chiara Pirozzi, Maria Diletta Pubblico, Gabriella Russo, Nicola Ciancio, Amedeo Benestante and Simona Da Pozzo.
On 7 June, the course undertaken with the students of the Liceo Vico as part of Arte dal Vivo concludes with the presentation of the artistic process, documented under the direction of Rosa Maietta, and the permanent work at the institute: Half a Flood (o l’arte di misurare piene invisibili).
Presentation tour of ‘Brac. Book Recipes Artists Cooking’: 17th May MamBo; 19th May Podere Castellare; 24th May Cremona Contemporanea Art week; 25th May La casa degli artisti, Milan.
The book, published by Corraini, brings together vegan and vegetarian recipes by chef Sacha Sandri Olmo and 78 works by the artists who revolve around the contemporary art bookstore Brac. A marvellous object to which I contributed the photograph Prelievo Orientale, part of the Orbital View project, which I associated with the culinary prodigy Seitan Masala.
image on the right: the book hold by Susanna Ravelli on the “Prelievo Orientale” page at Casa degli Artisti during the exhibition “Home”.
For fifteen years, the BRAC Bookshop in Florence has been combining good vegetarian and vegan cuisine and publishing dedicated to the languages of contemporary art. A formula that is an expression of the passions of the two owners, Sacha and Melisa: an imaginative chef specialising in vegetarian and vegan cuisine who is in love with comics and illustration, and a bibliophile with an interest in contemporary art in all its forms of expression (art, theatre, dance, cinema, photography).
Since its opening in 2009 to date, the Brac has organised and hosted around 1,800 meetings and book presentations, promoted and realised several festivals, events and exhibitions. This volume collects 80 recipes, born and served within the BRAC, entrusted to the free interpretation of 78 contemporary artists.
“They include all of Scripta’s guests – as Pietro Gaglianò writes – as well as beloved friends, regular visitors to the bookshop and its events, people who have passed through and who remain ever-present, together with others who have never been to Brac but who, through virtuous or virtual ties, through friendship or out of affinity, form a fundamental part of its universe of art, books and words”.
First two stages of the INTERSPAZIO project: from 11 to 17 May atelier and residency at Orlando Festival, Bergamo, and at Lavanderia a Vapore, Collegno.
INTERSPAZIO involves multidisciplinary artstə, operatorə and curatorə, with a focus on the languages of performance and the body, in a shared collective research on the theme of the ‘public’ in its plastic and multifaceted articulation. Public is understood in its broad meaning as a space but also as a statute, as a political function and as a group of people that bypasses the act of fruition and is instead constituted as a temporary aggregate: a redefinition that involves artists and artists and curators who are confronted with the call to transform their own methods and practices in order to arrive at new forms of mediation and relationship with the present context and with the invisible or absent one. The project is articulated over the course of 2024 within the framework of the programmes curated by the five call promoters: Orlando Festival (Bergamo, May), Lavanderia a Vapore (Collegno – Turin, May), Invisible Cities (Gorizia, September), Intercettazioni – Centro di Residenza Artistica della Lombardia / Zona K (Milan, October), Periferico Festival (Modena, October). The artists involved in the process are: Tea Andreoletti, Giovanna Rovedo and Simona Da Pozzo
Il Sebeto, il Taglina, le acque dell’Arenella e le sorgenti di acqua ferrata sono solo alcune delle tante acque scomparse, sotterrate, scivolate nelle profondità tufacee di Napoli, prosciugate e chiuse. Acque, scomparse dal panorama sonoro, visibile e tattile di Napoli, che hanno portato gli Alessandrini nel II sec. D.C. a vedere Neapolis come un piccolo delta del Nilo, quel Nilo che oggi appare sdraiato con savoir faire barocco nel cuore della città. Con “Acque Invisibili” un gruppo meraviglioso, che comprende tanto gli studenti del Vico quanto attori culturali della città e artisti, ha lavorato e mondeggiato per rendere possibile questa azione nello spazio pubblico. Abbiamo reso visibili gli 8 cubiti che circondavano il Nilo. I cubiti sono l’unità di misura con cui gli antichi egizi tentavano di comprendere e misurare le piene del Nilo. Ancora oggi tentiamo di prevedere le dinamiche e comportamenti dell’acqua che sfugge all’umana aspirazione di controllo.
L’intervento performativo, promosso e finanziato dal Comune di Napoli, apre il Maggio dei Monumenti 2024 “Le acque di Napoli”
From Monday 6 May, NEGOZIO will be exhibiting the project Protocollo e listino prezzi per un tentativo di equa accessibilità alla rappresent…
The work investigates value attribution systems by superimposing the bureaucratic mechanisms of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies on those of the art market. Through the device of the shop window, the artist offers an ISEE service of the person portrayed. A drawing, a text and some practical information give passers-by the coordinates to activate the service.
image: detail of the installation
The intervention will be visible from Monday to Saturday 10am – 5pm and by appointment, from 6 May to 9 June at the headquarters of the Attiva Cultural Projects association in via Francesco Bellucci Sessa 23, Portici, (NA).
“Hakerando lo spazio: intervista di Maria Gaia Redavid a Simona Da Pozzo” un capitolo del libro “Monumenti e spirito del tempo. Segni del potere e gerarchie dei valori.” di Emma de Zardo, edizioni FrancoAngeli 2024.
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