Bagnolo Mella (BS) | Palazzo Bertazzoli | 9 – 23 February 2020
The final act of Under skin. Stories of memories and persistence, edited by Serena Filippini and Matteo Galbiati, is the final chapter of an exhibition in three acts born in 2019 as a graduate thesis project by Serena Filippini in the course of Communication and Art Education at the SantaGiulia Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia, with prof. Matteo Galbiati.
The sample, conceived starting from concept of memory and collective memory, involved five artists whose works have been exhibited in three different regions - at the Castello Visconteo di Pandino (CR) in Lombardy, to the Villa Caldogno in Caldogno (WE) in Veneto and at Forte Strino di Vermiglio (TN) in Trentino-Alto Adige - between spring and summer of last year.
After earning his master's degree last September, Serena Filippini, currently among the curators of the ArtiVisive San Fedele Award 2019/20 a Milano, he chose Bagnolo Mella (BS), country where he lives, to give a conclusion to Under skin. Stories of memories and persistence.
Inside the seventeenth-century rooms Palazzo Bertazzoli, which has now become a Palace of Culture, the final act of this project is "staged", involving all five artists in a single exhibition, thus creating a narrative no longer divided into acts, but told from start to finish.
The inauguration will be held Sunday 9 February 2020 pm 18.00 in the presence of artists and curators.
The concept of memory is analyzed and dissected in its various meanings and facets, mainly privileging its sociological component and its being an essential element of human experience. Memory understood as historical memory, tied, then, to the past and to the stratification of time; memory as lived, recipient of more or less conscious intrinsic experiences that emerge over time and that are enclosed in what the French philosopher and sociologist Maurice Halbwachs defines as collective memory.
All the artists involved in this exhibition project have been identified, because in their research they had already worked on the theme of memory, each according to their own personal sensitivity; now individual memories unite in dialogue with those of others, with a view to composing a new collective, offering visitors reasoned interpretations and possible interpretations around this fascinating theme, inexhaustible source of considerations and suggestions.
In the selected works of art, in the concepts that are addressed, although all referable to the macro theme of memory, each of us can then recognize ourselves, finding in them testimonies of individual memories and stories of real life.
The works of Andrea Cereda (1961) and Diego Soldà (1981), protagonists in the 2019 dell’Act I, respectively with sculpture and painting, which lead us back to the origins of memory, to the primordial state in which the many existing memories float scattered in a state of chaos in tension towards the search for an order conquered through the union of them.
With self-portrait photos by Roman Opalka (1931-2011) and the paintings that look at the images of the current multimedia and social networks of Nicolò Tomaini (1989), exhibited inAct II, it reflects on how time affects memory, also according to the periods in which you are living.
The exhibition itinerary ends with the works that gave life to theAtto III; with photographs by Massimiliano Gatti (1981), the attention is focused on some cultural symbols depository of stories and memories that over time have acquired the extraordinary power to form the identity of society and that for this reason have been subjected to their total elimination.
A further interpretation is therefore offered, reflecting on what remains of memory before it is definitively denied by the oblivion of consumption.
The path is therefore cyclical and chronological: from the origin of memory, then passing through the element of time, ending with the slow negation of memory itself, the exhibition opens up new horizons of meaning, able to stimulate individual readings in visitors who, empathically, they can go beyond limits and beliefs suggested and hinted at by the artists themselves, opening the works to a renewed visionary capable of surprising and deeply suggestive.
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Under skin. Stories of memories and persistence | FINAL ACT
curated by Serena Filippini and Matteo Galbiati
under the patronage of
City of Bagnolo Mella, Artemisia Cultural Association and District 2050 Rotary Club Brescia Verola
in collaboration with
Castel Negrino Art, Aicurzio (MB) and Galleria Melesi, Lecco
Artists on display: Andrea Cereda, Diego Soldà, Roman Opalka, Nicolò Tomaini and Massimiliano Gatti
9 – 23 February 2020
Inauguration: Sunday 9 February hours 18.00
Palazzo Bertazzoli
Via XXVI April 48, Bagnolo Mella (BS)
Opening Hours:
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 16.00-18.00
Friday night 21.00-23.00
Saturday and Sunday 10.00-12.00 | 15.00-18.00
Catalog: Vanillaedizioni
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