INTIMATE LANDSCAPES, INTERVENTI SUL PAESAGGIO INTIMO

Where: Flash Art Event, Palazzo Del Ghiaccio, Milan, Italy.
When: 07-10 February 2013.
Curators: cultural association 22:37.
Artists: Boba Miriana Stojadinović, Dusica Drasić, Iva Kontić, Ivana Spinelli, Maja Beganović, Marco Pezzotta, Rebecca Agnes, Stefania Migliorati.

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The works on display come from the individual experience of each artist, and from their personal intervention on the places where they live or where they came from, or that they feel deeply connected with. Places that are, sometimes, geographically identified such as cities, and where the artists ideally apply their interventions, leaving a trace of their passage. Or, places of which the real location is known only by the artist, or even exists only in his/her memory, like his/her own home or the place where he/she grew up. The viewer is given to understand only partially, using intuition or a series of sensorial clues left bay the artist. They may be places that you cannot see or touch, like the idea of a geographical boundary, or the concepts of origin and destination, which are called into question, mixed up and reversed. From a formal point of view, all of the exhibited works turn these concepts into decorative elements, as if the memory of living could become a motif to wear, watch, or guard. As if that particular memory could become the common form of living in that place. The artists’ interventions are like the traces of a passage that can be compared to Beethoven’s passages in music, where the movement is fleeting and the passage is not intended a sound, but can be identified with something bigger, like the feelings of all the people in the contemporary age. A sort of restlessness and weakness emerge from the melting pot, leading to an explosion, the characteristic “timpani roll”. This is the contemporary era: each artist has the opportunity to follow a line suggested by tradition and yet, at the same time, oppose to it radically, or even decide not to chose one side or another and make his own, interesting way.

Stefania Migliorati, DIE UNDICHTIGE STADT, print 70 x 100 cm, 2012.

Dušica Dražić, PROMENADE ARCHITECTURALE, imaginary space of art, C-print, 70×60 cm, 2012.

Rebecca Agnes, LUNAR PHASES, 6 needleworks on frame, embroidered by hand, 20 x 20 cm, 2012.

Iva Kontić, MECHANICAL DREAM, multimedia installation, 5 pictures each 30 x 20 cm, 2012.