arianna fantin / artisane
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On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Antonioni, Arianna Fantin/Artisane (Bologna, 1988), artist who is living in Berlin for years, has used words for reflection on the feeling of emptiness expressed in the cinema of the director from Ferrara by words. Drawing inspiration from some Monica Vitti’s sentences from movies, the artist realised a series of works using one of the most recurring techniques in her work, embroidered text. Words made by thread immersed in other words, letters dissolving in water, books hand embroidered, cyanotype prints conversing with a work by her father, Emilio Fantin: symbols and references to the cinema of unspoken words and speaking silences.
This exhibition is part of the project “Dentro le mura”, realised in the context of Creatività Giovanile, promoted and supported by the Dipartimento della Gioventù – Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministi and by Anci – Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani.
Come devo vivere. Dialoghi visivi con il cinema di Michelangelo Antonioni.
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silvia camporesi
Installazioni in occasione del 9° raduno universale dei pigri
Defne Kutbombardieri, lodola, tagliatti
hiroyuki masuyama and stefano scheda
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On the occasion of Joaquín Sorolla’s exhibition at Palazzo dei Diamanti, the MLB Home Gallery launches an exhibition, curated by Peter Weiermair and implemented in partnership with Studio La Città, that gets the Japanese artist Masuyama and the artist from Bologna, Scheda involved in the theme of “light gardens”.
Masuyama has realised stunning light boxes, outcome of a superimposition of hundreds of digital photographs, a greatly accurate work inspired by the flowing of time, by photographing the same locations every day for a whole season so as to superimpose all the pictures in digital.
Whereas Stefano Scheda has taken pictures of an old farmhouse during the whole year, inserting mirrors in empty windows, so that they reflect just what is behind the onlookers. At the bedroom of the gallery, amazing shoots sprout from the furniture.
sabrina torelli
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In conjunction with Sorolla’s exhibition at Palazzo dei Diamanti, the exhibition by Sabrina Torelli is a consideration on the concept of garden, imagined as the best place where universal energy can appear, as that “concealed harmony” that “triumphs over the one that shines”. Nature, as the expression of the power that holds everything together, creating, dissolving and recreating, in Torelli’s view should became again the essential point of reference for humanity.
Because “happiness is being linked as one with the universe. It is becoming ourselves the universal garden”.
A great tree, picked from the Delta del Po, restored and carved, as if it were a shamanic tools able to turn concealed energies on, a series of drawings and a sound installation that makes plants voices audible, as the rhythm of the flowing sap, are on view.
marcello carrà
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Conceived in conjunction with ArteFiera, Marcello Carrà’s exhibition “Né carne né pesce” is not a slogan in favour of a vegetarian diet. It is instead an exhortation to become aware of man’s exploitation of animals, from pigs, of which nothing is left to waste, to fish and marine fauna.
It is a doom that joins sow and her eight piglets brood and Mediterranean fish, which, due to global warming, have to coexist with some more aggressive tropical species now. The artworks that can be up to three meters tall are entirely realised by ball-point pen on paper and plywood and are equipped with commemorative plaques of the pictured subjects.
ketty tagliatti
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In conjunction with the exposition “Gli anni folli. La Parigi di Modigliani, Picasso e Dalí” at Palazzo dei Diamanti, MLB Home Gallery invited Ketty Tagliatti to create an expository project dedicated to this important event. The artist took inspiration particularly from Surrealist and Dadaist themes, reconsidering through her poetry concepts of disorientation, contextualization of ordinary life objects and automatism. A great tapestry and a series of dreamlike and evocative works intend to evoke the atmosphere of the Parisian avant-gardes, with references to Man Ray, Mirò, Magritte and the contemporary experimental theatre of the period, in pursuit of the “total work of art”.
paolo bianchi, fabio pietrantonio
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On the occasion of the celebrations of Unification of Italy, MLB Home Gallery invited two artists, who now live where the Kingdom of Piemonte-Sardegna existed once, to interpret the concept of “Risorgimento” in linkage with actuality. Now, Italy faces a new “Risorgimento”: spiritual and ethical. Paolo Bianchi and Fabio Pietrantonio perceived this widespread desire for regeneration and the exhibited works creates the necessity to go back to roots to recover primordial energies. Bianchi discovers a redeeming bond with tradition in a spectacular commemoration of the rituals of Ottana Carnival, in comparison with present causes for reflections, whereas Pietrantonio proposes a symbolic and powerful acupuncture for the planet.
The exhibition is realized in collaboration with the Assessorato alle Attività Produttive of the Comune di Ferrara.
stefano bombardieri
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Stefano Bombardieri, artist who took part at the Biennale di Venezia in 2007, celebrates the thirteenth exhibition of the MLB Home Gallery. Bombardieri, well-known in Ferrara thanks to his installation where he hung rhinoceros, is the protagonist of The Faunal Countdown, the first festival of invasive urban art designed for the International Year for Biological Diversity supported by the Ministero dei Beni Culturali.
The exhibition Natura morta/viva. Conversation avec Chardin is a reflection of the theme of still-life nowadays, starting from Chardin’s works, exhibited currently at Palazzo dei Diamanti. Just like Chardin, who rose ordinary life objects and ordinary people’s gestures to the level of art, Bombardieri used usual objects to mount an evocative scenario of a direct dialogue with Chardin, that takes part at a table set.
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stefano bombardieri
giorgio cattani and gabriele croppi
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Gabriele Croppi, well-known travel photographer from Milan, and Giorgio Cattani, artist from Ferrara who is an exponent of Transavantgarde, celebrate the twelfth exhibition at the MLB Home Gallery. An exhibition of paintings that look like photographs, and photographs that look like paintings. Next to the city of Ferrara by Cattani, depicted in oil with an evocative sepia effect that reminds of Antonioni’s atmospheres, emerges the Hopper-like New York, photographed by Croppi, in which the instantaneous vision acquires an unexpected pictorial slowness. Two distant cities, rendered closer by the same diversity of gazes.
carrà, mayr, merlanti
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For the eleventh exhibition of the MLB Home Gallery, three artists, Marcello Carrà, Riccardo Mayr, and Alessandro Merlanti present their work as a moment of conclusion of the course on ‘Orientation strategies in the art system” promoted by the MLB Home Gallery, which saw the three artists compare themselves on principal aspects that characterize the art world. Tassidermie vitali is the title chosen by the artists themselves for this exhibition, since each one of them ‘taxidermies’ utterly lived subjects through art. Exhibited works have strong impact: spectacular insects drawn by BIC pen by Carrà, even of great size, a life-sized locomotive depicted by Merlanti, and the political architectures realized by powder by Mayr.
silvia camporesi
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To inaugurate the tenth exhibition at the MLB Home Gallery, the artist Silvia Camporesi marked Decadent sensitivity, who designed, specifically for the Gallery and its spaces, a photographic series dedicated to Giovanni Boldini, protagonist of the exposition, “Boldini nella Parigi degli Impressionisti” at Palazzo dei Diamanti. Taking inspiration particularly from three paintings of the artist of the Parisian Belle Époque, Camporesi focuses a contrast between stasis and motion that characterizes Boldini’s poetry. At the end of a journey that led her from Museo Boldini to Japan, she arrived to link the electrical elegance of Boldini’s brush strokes to Eastern calligraphy.
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