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From 13 to 27 March 2011, at the Institute of Gallarate Vinci will take the collective of contemporary art, curated by Giorgio Berra, entitled "Persephone. Contemporary artists talk about the myth."
theme of the exhibition is the greek myth of Persephone, maiden contest between the surface of the living and the depth of darkness. The polysemous connotations of the myth of Persephone is presented as a field of debate in the contemporary languages \u200b\u200bof twelve artists in various disciplines have developed the content of the story by proposing a new reading.

Daughter of Zeus and Demeter, Persephone was kidnapped by the lord of the underworld Hades through deception tied to whether the girl for always making sure that after spending two thirds of the Earth with her mother Demeter, lady seasons, he returned to the kingdom of the Dead.

The exhibition is the perfect path from light to darkness that confronts Persephone cycle, but this step reserves a period of stasis and reflection, in which the two dimensions of light-and dark-objectivity unconscious living. Visitors will be able to personally choose the starting point of his visit: oblivion obscure the clarity of light, or vice versa, thus raising the implicit invitation to reflect on the duplicity of the real.

Gabriella Siciliano "Rebirth"

In exhibition, the painting material and informal Gabriella Siciliano leads to the color burst of energy of rebirth in nature while Armanda Verdirame stresses the life force of Mother Earth through the insertion seed in its natural terracotta shields.

Francesca Crocetti says the myth through site-specific installation built around the window of the former factory building, a symbolic border between death and rebirth, an argument that Mark Lamanna elaborates with a unique and innovative work video art.

Alice Pini moves between sculpture and painting by conducting a survey on the dualism between life and death, reality and unconscious as well Debora Garritan, through the medium of photography, conducts research on the double by presenting a reflection on their identity and their roots.

Alice Pini "So it was night"

is inside an oneiric figures blurred in china Jennifer Benigni, visions of landscapes, intimate interiors and untouched in her art. While Brandi and Silvana Valentina Fraccaro enhance the role of Persephone as a separate limit through a metamorphosis of color.

sign markedly expressive and chromatic "fierce" are the hallmarks of Liana Ghucasyan which puts the emphasis on the passion of the myth in which the female figure translates into a contraction and dramatic.

dark atmosphere characterizes the work of Clare Ricardi where the artist, specifically investigating natural materials in their reaction to oxidation and firing, creating a system of harmonies and rhythmic contrasts. Finally Sergio Sansevrino through a reflection on color and gesture transposed into small sandpaper evokes a universal and cosmic dimension of reality.

The symbolic richness of the Greek myths in every age has been a fertile field for interpretation, mirrors of their time. Persephone can be negative and positive in all of us.

Sergio Sanseverino "The access of light increases the number of rivals

finissage On the occasion of the exhibition (March 27) during the opening hours will be held in a studio theater form of interactive performance on the myth of Persephone by Silvia and Gabriele Neposteri Illarietti Association Alcheringa. Reference point is the interpretation of Persephone Ghannis Ritsos monologue, one of the most high-Hellenic poetry of the twentieth century.

ARTISTS Jennifer Benigni, Silvia Brandi, Francesca Crocetti, Valentina Fraccaro, Debora Garritan, Liana Ghucasyan, Mark Lamanna, Alice Pini, Chiara Ricardi, Sergio Sansevrino, Gabriella Siciliano and Armanda Verdirame.

VERNISSAGE

Sunday, March 13, 2011 17:30

See Vinci Institute, via Mantova 6, Gallarate (VA)
Free admission

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