"QUATTRO PEZZI (NON TANTO) FACILI"

group exhibition curated by Giorgio Verzotti

Artists: Filippo Berta, Massimo De Caria, Carlo and Fabio Ingrassia and Daniele Innamorato

An unprecedented way of collaboration between Fondazione Pistoletto and other Biella Centers dedicated to art is inaugurated at Cittadellarte. Four artists belonging to the most recent generations, Filippo Berta, Massimo De Caria, Carlo and Fabio Ingrassia and Daniele Innamorato will open a confrontation between different artistic procedures. From July 1, video, sculpture, drawing and painting will coexist in a common space, curated by Giorgio Verzotti. The exhibition is titled "Quattro pezzi (non tanto) facili" emphasizing the complexity of thought that the artists infuse into their very different works.
The initiative stems from a choice by Michelangelo Pistoletto, among the participants in the group exhibition Zona Bianca Zero, opening in November 2021 at the Woolbridge Gallery, a large former industrial space turned into an art gallery. Michelangelo has decided to host, at his choice, four among the other artists participating in the exhibition and proposed this other exhibition occasion at his Foundation; a way to more articulately link the latter's activity to the artistic context in which it operates, while maintaining a wide-ranging look at the most interesting research trajectories of artistic practices also with specific focus in our country.

La Nueva Fábrica presents GRITO, a review of Regina José Galindo with almost 40 pieces, made and conceived by the Guatemalan artist from 1997 to the present year. 

The exhibition will be held from June 26 at 16:00 (CST) at the La Nueva Fábrica space in the village of Santa Ana, Antigua Guatemala. Grito will be open until November 27, 2022. Regina José Galindo belongs to the post-war generation, the one that lived through the genocide in Guatemala, so at the end of the nineties and with the recent signing of peace, she began her work. Since then, her proposals have occupied the public space through her body and her narrative in constant resistance throughout the country. 

Grito, is the conjugated verb that is the name of this exhibition, which is curated by Maya Juracán, activist and curator. The work is conceived as a cry that has amplified Regina José Galindo's voice in the face of many social struggles for bodies and memories. For example, Las escucharon gritar y no abrieron la puerta (2017), a sound performance in which 41 women remained locked inside a small room and screamed for nine continuous minutes. This action was performed in commemoration of the 2017 fire at the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, an orphanage run by the Guatemalan state in which 56 girls were deliberately locked in a room while it was on fire, causing the death of 41 of them.

697 State Crimes

Group Exhibition "Affecting Memory"

June 16 - September 8, 2022

Deutsche Künstlerbund, Berlin, Germany

https://www.kuenstlerbund.de/

Congratulations to Silvia Giambrone's "Traum" on winning the FAFF 2022 BEST PERFORMANCE ART FILM award!

https://www.veniceica.org/fineartsfilmfestival

Amphiareion of Oropos

Sunday 12^th June I 12:00 pm

Free admission

Visual artist, performer and researcher Mary Zygouri continues her long exploration of the visual practices of site-specific performance and presents her new project “LYSIS” (translates to “deliverance” in Greek), at the archaeological site of Amphiareion of Oropos on Sunday 12^th June 2022, with the kind support of NEON Organization of Culture and Development. 

In this case, investigating the processes of sleep, dreams and the analysis of dreams as artistic tools the artist has focused her project on the archaeological site of Amphiareion mainly as an ancient dream divinatory and healing shrine, while also dealing with its unique location and geomorphology. Through her research project “LYSIS” and using the artistic process and experience on site, she attempts to re-associate the healing and dream divinatory practices of the past of Amphiareion (dream incubation, purification, dreamy and divinatory enthusiasm, ecstatic lucidity, reverence, dream and water divination etc.) with the poetics of performative action and the methodologies of contemporary performance, adopting the multi-faceted perspective of a dream, and involving in her artistic action the dynamics of symbols, rituals, gestures, nods, and whispers.

The core of this project exploration is based on: a. the enigmatic mythical figure of Amphiaraus (a glorious king, brave warrior, tragic hero, oracle, and healer), b. the ritualistic process of dream incubation (enkoimisis), c. the relation between water and Time (hourglass), and d. the dialectical relation between Art, Dream and reality.

The element which unifies the “narrative” of the actions and the shifting from one location (“station”) to another is the presence of the offerings as markers (over-sized human body parts – eye, ear, mouth, leg, etc.). The offerings will correspond to melea (original hybrid compositions of speech, movement and music) as performative representations of dreamy and other emerging elements. 

The exploration experience, in its entirety, will take place at the archaeological site of Amphiareion, including a period of artistic and research preparation (May 12^th – June 12^th) that will conclude with a live public presentation/performance. During the preparation phase, the artist converses with a number of guests from various science and art fields (theater/performance, music, dance, psychology, archaeology) on the topics introduced through the multi-faceted and polysemous identity of the archaeological site. 

The final LYSIS performance on June 12th at the Amphiareion of Oropos will be an idiosyncratic guided tour, a site-specific dreamy narrative during which the audience is asked to follow the performance in six different locations within the archaeological site. 

The artist invites the visitor to reflect on the meaning of the healing use of dreams for the sake of performative art, offering visitors a collective multi-sensory and participatory experience, and indirectly highlighting conceivable versions and effects of a collective subconscious process.

https://neon.org.gr/en/exhibition/lysis/

FABRIZIO COTOGNINI SHOW IN MAYENNE FRANCE

At Musèee du Chàteau de Mayenne