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20/mar/2013

UPCOMING at Furini's_ Arte: Affari, Lavoro o Perditempo

“Arte: Affari, Lavoro o Perditempo”

Nemanja Cvijanović, Deimantas Narkevičius, Cesare Pietroiusti, Société Réaliste, ABS Grupa, Fokus Grupa, Vlado Martek

a cura di Nemanja Cvijanović

10 April - 31 May 2013
opening 10 April 2013, 6,30pm

FURINI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA - ROME

NEMANJA CVIJANOVIC at MACRO "EXTRALARGE"

Nemanja Cvijanovic, Progetto Anonimo, 2012, view of the show at Furini's - Rome

NEMANJA CVIJANOVIC

MACRO "EXTRA LARGE"

28.03.2013-05.05.2013

http://www.museomacro.org/it/prossimamente-extra-large

15/feb/2013

LO SBOCCO ROMANTICO // The show

LO SBOCCO ROMANTICO Thomas Braida Valerio Nicolai, FuriniArteContemporanea-Roma


LO SBOCCO ROMANTICO Thomas Braida Valerio Nicolai, FuriniArteContemporanea-Roma

LO SBOCCO ROMANTICO Thomas Braida Valerio Nicolai, FuriniArteContemporanea-Roma

16/gen/2013

Thomas Braida | Valerio Nicolai, LO SBOCCO ROMANTICO

7 Feb - 30 Mar 2013
con un testo di Andrea Bruciati
opening 7 Feb ore 6,30

Furini Arte Contemporanea è lieta di presentare la bi-personale di Thomas Braida (Gorizia, 1982) e Valerio Nicolai (Gorizia, 1988) LO SBOCCO ROMANTICO, una combinazione di lavori nata rielaborando alcuni spunti derivati dalla lettura di Frankenstein di Mary Shelley.

Il progetto, divergendo dalla struttura consueta della doppia collettiva, porta all’evidenza una secrezione poetica comune. L’opera, infatti, si forma come un oggetto a quattro mani in cui le parti si congiungono secondo un ordine visionario, avvicendando piccole sculture, oggetti, dipinti e disegni su carta come le pagine di un libro, come un diario segreto esploso e fattosi visibile sotto altre sembianze.

I due pittori, tra frammenti, sovrapposizioni e slanci lirici, affrontano la narrazione di una nostalgia romantica, il recupero di un intimismo onirico, ponendosi quindi nel punto di raccordo tra insieme e unicità.

14/dic/2012

Serena Vestrucci, FlashArt Italia dicembre-gennaio 2013, by Caroline Corbetta

01/dic/2012

Andrea Bianconi at Arte Institute, NYC

PRESS RELEASE

ARTE INSTITUTE
ANDREA BIANCONI
September 21st, 2012
Union Square Park, NYC, 8 pm. Free and open to the public.

Andrea Bianconi creates ROMANCE, an artist book and video that illustrate a segment of his stream of consciousness. In his book, each page incorporates several images revealing a representation of his thoughts as they appear in the mind. The text is traversed by an unreachable flow of meaning.

There is a continuous relationship between each word, thus each image is connected to the next. His work has no beginning or end, but rather

a circular narrative indicating a discourse-course that is crossed by endless chain of association, void, surplus, lapsus. Bianconi transforms his book into a video alluding to Italo Calvino’s ‘mental cinema’, believing images are always being projected in our minds as part of the imagina- tive process of reading.
ROMANCE is a blend of construction and deconstruction, of closing and opening, of intimacy and extroversion -- an endless chain of associa- tions.

ROMANCE is published by cura.books, and the video produced while at Residency Unlimited, NYC.
ROMANCE is also a performance, according to his last performance “Trap for the Mind”, the artist wears masks in front of a mirror, which become literal facets, slowly and simultaneously divulging and consuming.

TITLE performance : Trap for the Mind
The artist wears paper cut masks in front of the mirror ,one mask on top of the other, which become literal faces, slowly and simultaneously divulging and consuming. The Masks are referencing the convictions in which we take refuge and the prejudices behind which we hide.
The process of putting masks one after another become a comment on construction and deconstruction, closing and opening, intimacy and extro- version.

Summer Nights Series 2012 is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and thanks to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, which kindly made Union Square Park’s North Pavilion available for these events.
Special Thanks go to Residency Unlimited, a partnering organization where Andrea Bianconi is currently an artist in residence, and finally to SEA which generously has supported the artist’s work.

Andrea Bianconi at Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY

ROMANCE, A PERFORMANCE/SCREENING AND PUBLICATION LAUNCH

PRESS RELEASE

Tuesday Oct. 23rd, 2012 - 6:30pm in presence of cura.books for the launch of the artistsʼ book ROMANCE by Andrea Bianconi
Location: Residency Unlimited 360 Court Street (green door), Brooklyn, NY 11231 directions here
Join us for this very special evening where Andrea Bianconi will present his latest project ROMANCE defined by the unicity of 3 overlapping components: the artistʼs book ROMANCE (cura.books), a performance by Bianconi and an animation film.
ROMANCE is a blend of construction and deconstruction, closing and opening, intimacy and extroversion — an endless chain of associations.
ROMANCE is an artistʼs book published by cura.books, that illustrates a segment of Bianconiʼs stream of consciousness in which each page incorporates several images that reveal a representation of the artistʼs thoughts as they appear in the

mind. The text is traversed by an unreachable flow of meaning.There is a continuous relationship between e ach word, thus each image is connected to the next. There is no beginning nor end, but rather a circular narrative indicating a discourse-course that is crossed by an endless chain of associations, void, surplus, lapsus. In the first page Bianconi writes ” I would run away but there is the reality”.

ROMANCE is an animation film alluding to Italo Calvinoʼs ʻmental cinemaʼ and a quest for ” traces of something that may not ever exist”. This video was produced with the support of RU.

ROMANCE is a performance.The artist is still and motionless. The video is projected onto his face. “The Brainʼs Mental Cinema” writes Calvino in “Lezioni Americane” is always at work in each one of us, and it always has been, even before the invention of the cinema. Nor does it ever stop projecting images before our mindʼs eyes”

About the publication ROMANCE by Andrea Bianconi Dimension (Width x Height): 120 x 170 mm Black and White Pages: 96 Published in September 2012 during Bianconiʼs residency with RU.

Andrea Bianconiʼs residency is made possible with the support of Furini Arte Contemporanea, Rome and Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX and SEA. We are also grateful to cura.books that has agreed to produce Andrea Bianconiʼs publication as part of his residency project.

This event is also made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.