|
Bologna to New York
From May 24-27, the Palazzina Liberty in the Giardini Margherita, Bologna, a building awarded to the Bologna-based collective, Antonello Ghezzi (Nadia Antonello and Paolo Ghezzi) as part of the competition, INCREDIBOL!, will be the site of the exhibition Lasciare la Terra/To Leave Earth. This exhibition brings together four American artists (Kate Kosek, Maureen O’Leary, Macon Reed, and Samantha Robinson) who are part of the Brooklyn-based Wayfarers Studio Program.
Following this exhibition, on June 23, Nadia Antonello and Paolo Ghezzi will travel to Wayfarers in Brooklyn, New York, where they will present a public performance of their piece Blow against the walls.
This twin exchange of exhibitions was conceived to express so much that is fundamental to art making: discovery, sharing, a transfer of ideas, and the dissemination of cultural diversity. |
|
|
LASCIARE LA TERRA
Kate Kosek, Maureen O'Leary, Macon Reed, and Samantha Robinson
Palazzina Liberty, Bologna, Italy
May 24-27, 2018. Vernissage, Thursday, May 24, 6:30-8:30
Gallery hours Friday-Saturday 10am – 6pm, Sunday 1pm-6pm
To leave earth, in a dream or in a human-made vessel, is an innate ambition. Whether inspired by desperation, mischief, patriotism or wanderlust, the contraptions we create to assist us are both splendid and foolish. Such desire for exploration is often for the love of it.
Kate Kosek, Maureen O’Leary, Macon Reed and Samantha Robinson, from the Wayfarers studio program in Brooklyn, New York, guests of the collective Antonello Ghezzi, have created work around this concept, work which will be installed in the Palazzina Liberty of the Giardini Margherita, Bologna, Italy. These artists create a crucible for the multifaceted love of escape - how you might get away in mind or body, what you might use to do it, what devices or nature inspires you, and whether you will come back at all.
Palazzina Liberty
Giardini Margherita
Piazzale Jacchia 1/4 (access from the back)
Bologna, Italy 40137
|
|
BLOW AGAINST THE WALLS
Antonello Ghezzi
Wayfarers, Brooklyn, New York
June 23, 7-9pm
The Italian duo Antonello Ghezzi, based in Bologna Italy, brings their interactive performance BLOW AGAINST THE WALLS to the Wayfarers studio space in Brooklyn, New York. The project is intended to protest physical barriers around the world, built by humans to keep far away from others.
Participants at exhibition will blow bubbles against a large canvas where the photography of K. Flo Razowosky will be projected. The work of Razokowsky, an Ashkenazic, anti-Zionist, queer artist based in Los Angeles, who shares Antonello Ghezzi’s interest in social engagement-based art, becomes part of the performance. With her project, Up Against the Wall, Razokowsky spent roughly six months a year between 2002 and 2008 personally photographing the walls that define the Palestinian territories as well as the borders between Ukraine and Slovakia, Serbia and Croatia, Mexico and the United States, and Morocco and the Spanish city of Melilla.
On the canvas the separation barriers that divide the world will be overwhelmed and modified by countless colourful soap bubbles, that come from the breath of people. The bubbles will impact the the wall and will go through it, unstoppable in their lightness, their pigments, and their hope.
The collective Antonello Ghezzi has recently exhibited at the Sound Design Festival of Hamamatsu (Japan), the Italian Institute of Culture in Athens (Greece), the BIEL Center in Beirut (Lebanon), the Usina del Arte in Buenos Aires (Argentina), the National Picture Gallery of Bologna (Italy), the Moscow Biennial (Russia), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Villa Croce in Genova (Italy), the Sarajevo Winter Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina), the Blik Opener (the Netherlands), the Arsenale in Verona (Italy), and the CIFF in Copenhagen (Denmark).
Wayfarers
1109 DeKalb Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11221
The performance is supported with funding from Azienda Dulcop International S.p.A. di Bologna and in partnership with the Cultural Institute of New York and the Marina Abramovich Institute. This exhibition was also made possible by the support of INCREDIBOL!, the creative innovation of Bologna and the CNA Cultura e Creatività.
http://www.antonelloghezzi.com/
http://www.brooklynwayfarers.org/
|
|
|
Wayfarers is an artist-run studio program, art space, and psychic home base for creative action in Brooklyn, NY. Since 2011 we've been supporting the development of experimental work through innovative exhibitions, lectures, screenings, performances, and other cultural programming, all of which are free and open to the public. Wayfarers provides affordable studios, work space and equipment access, as well as exhibition opportunities, critical discussions and social events for members, all of whom are directly involved with operations.
|
|
|
|
|
|
