maurizio cosua
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To inaugurate its ninth exhibition, the MLB Home Gallery invited Maurizio Cosua, artist from Ferrara living in Venice.
The exhibition is launched in conjunction with the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, from which takes its name, “Fare Mondi”. Cosua’s stunning installation recreates a skyscrapers skyline composed by horizontal lines that look like depicted, instead they are created by layers of his previous drawings overlapped, vertically sectioned and subsumed in plexiglass boxes. An art work that can though be seen optimistically in a modern way: past is necessary to build present, and skyscrapers of evocative beauty can be erected on its ruins.
timothy tompkins and giorgio morandi
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To inaugurate its eighth exhibition, the MLB Home Gallery invited the Californian artist Timothy Tompkins, who measured himself with the Morandi’s latest still life, of which an almost abstract drawing is exhibited. The artist assembled featureless objects selected between the American hypermarkets unsold stock, took pictures and then depicted them in compositions that recall still life tradition. The results are colourful and contemporary still life, really up-to-date in their anti-consumerist criticism.
The exhibition has been realised in collaboration with Studio la Città di Verona and is in conjunction with the exposition “Morandi e l’incisione” at Ferrara’s Palazzo dei Diamanti.
hannu palosuo
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To inaugurate its seventh exhibition the MLB Home Gallery pays tribute to William Turner, protagonist of the exhibition that takes place at Palazzo dei Diamanti, just next to the gallery. The Finnish artist Hannu Palosuo turned two rooms of the gallery into an utterly scenographic setting with hazy colours. A great site-specific pictorial installation hosts the onlookers: a forest of trunks that fades in ad endless sky. This work introduces in an evocative journey across to discover other installation: a gradual passage from representation to abstraction dedicated to the Turnerian sublime.
hiroyuki masuyama
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To inaugurate its sixth exhibition, the MLB Home Gallery pays tribute to William Turner, protagonist of the exhibition that takes place at Palazzo dei Diamanti, just next to the gallery.
An important Japanese conceptual artist, Hiroyuki Masuyama, retraced Turner’s journey from London to Italy, by taking hundreds of pictures and then recomposing them in a complex montage work (like Turner who made with his watercolour notes that were preliminary to his oil paintings).
Masuyama’s light boxes aren’t only simple photographic reproductions of Turner’s paintings, but are evocative works about the flowing of time. From the comparison between the works exhibited in Palazzo dei Diamanti and the ones recreated through digital perfection, what comes out are subtle landscape alterations created by time.
The exhibition has been realised in collaboration with Studio la Città di Verona.
maurizio camerani and ketty tagliatti
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To inaugurate its fourth exhibition the MLB Home Gallery pays tribute to Joan Miró, protagonist of the exhibition that takes place at Palazzo dei Diamanti, just next to the gallery itself. The gallery invites two artists to exhibit their works, both characterized by the expressive strength of sign and matter: Maurizio Camerani, whose spectacular work synergistically recapitulates matter sculpture and video pictures, and Ketty Tagliatti, whose embroidered or burned canvases evoke signic and gestural informal. An homage to the alchemic magic of Miró’s stroke but also to the subjects of his work, linked with land, spirituality and reflection on the eternal succession of life and death: themes with which the artists compared themselves in a fascinating and polished dialogue.
man ray and stefano bombardieri
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The third exhibition of the MLB Home Gallery pays tribute to artistic genius of the Fourteenth century Ferrarese painting Cosmé Tura, who created characteristic works known by his surreal and visionary fantasies, along with his exposition held at Palazzo dei Diamanti. Two artists are linked by fil rouge of Surrealism: an historical one, Man Ray, who has been an exponent of the United States’ Dadaism, and of the European Surrealism, a contemporary one, Stefano Bombardieri, a young artist from Brescia, who is synchronously presenting his works at the 52th Biennale of Venice. Photographs, rayographs, assemblage, sculpture and works on paper by Man Ray creates a dialogue between Bombardieri’s sculptures with continuous references based on the reflection of ‘visionary madness’ of Tura.
erik binder, marcello cinque
simone lucietti e lamberto teotino
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Lamberto Teotino and Simone Lucietti realized two site-specific projects that create a dialogue between the environment and its context through different mediums of expression: digital photography by Teotino, and sculpture by Lucietti.
Two projects by meticulous and refined elaboration are linked together by a noir-gothic atmosphere, presented with a suggestive title: Optalidon
WORKSHOP CON MUSTAFA SABBAGH.
IL PAESAGGIO QUOTIDIANO. TRA RITRATTO E LANDSCAPE
DOVE: Ferrara, MLB Maria Livia Brunelli home gallery
QUANDO: sab. 8 ottobre 2016 dalle 10 alle 18
dom. 9 ottobre 2016 dalle 10 alle 18
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PARTECIPANTI: numero chiuso, massimo 12 partecipanti
Il workshop, tenuto dal noto artista e fotografo italo-palestinese Mustafa Sabbagh, che ha tenuto
di recente con grande successo una Masterclass al MAXXI di Roma, alternerà teoria e pratica,
assoli e coro. Ecco come lo stesso Sabbagh racconta quello che intende proporre nel corso del
workshop.
“Durante la mattina del primo giorno parlerò ai partecipanti della diversità di linguaggi insita nella
fotografia, di come il linguaggio della costruzione di immagini, così composito, possa diventare
mezzo e fine, modus e obiettivo, facendo di tanto in tanto riferimento a quanti in me hanno
lasciato un solco dal punto di vista iconografico, educativo, immaginifico. Nel pomeriggio metterò
in atto le parole, occupandomi della progettazione e della realizzazione di ritratti, all’interno dei
quali obiettivo principale sarà la dimostrazione pratica che il contesto crea la sostanza, che it is my
daily mood that makes the weather, attraverso l’alleanza e la complicità di ciò che maggiormente,
in un ritratto, parla del soggetto: lo stile.
Nel secondo giorno, chiederò ai partecipanti la realizzazione estemporanea di un ritratto
rappresentativo sia del proprio stile – dal punto di vista della tecnica - che dello stile conferito, o
colto, nel soggetto – dal punto di vista della visione; al termine di questa fase, e a partire dai
ritratti realizzati, domanderò ai partecipanti quale sia l’interpretazione dei loro stessi scatti, e da lì
avvieremo un panel di discussione che farà ulteriore luce sulla fotografia, sulla tecnica del ritratto,
ma soprattutto su loro stessi - perché padroneggiare la fotografia, e soprattutto la tecnica del
ritratto, significa obbligatoriamente dovere avere a che fare con se stessi...la lente fotografica è
uno specchio”.
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Workshop con Silvia Camporesi. Fare Arte.
Creatività e progettualità nella fotografia contemporanea
DOVE: Ferrara, MLB Maria Livia Brunelli home gallery
QUANDO: sab. 19 novembre 2011 dalle 10 alle 18
dom. 20 novembre 2011 dalle 10 alle 18
INFO ISCRIZIONI: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – 346 7953757
PARTECIPANTI: numero chiuso, massimo 12 partecipanti
Come nascono le idee? Come passo dal pensiero al lavoro finito – sia esso una singola immagine o
un intero progetto? Di cosa ho bisogno?
Questo workshop è improntato sul tema della progettazione artistica fotografica e riflette su come
muoversi nell’intricata strada dei pensieri e delle azioni che conducono alla realizzazione
dell’opera.
Obiettivo del workshop è comprendere il modus operandi che sta dietro ogni lavoro artistico.Ogni
passo è fondamentale nella creazione di un’opera. Le strade percorse per arrivare al risultato
finale, pur rimanendo nella maggior parte dei casi sotterranee, sono anch’esse parti importanti
dell’opera. Durante il workshop cercheremo di rendere visibili questi percorsi.
1. COME NASCONO LE IDEE
Il primo passo sta nel capire come nascono le idee artistiche, quale il luogo e la suggestione della
loro origine (un libro, la scena di un film, qualcosa visto per strada).
Dopo una presentazione personale, in questa prima parte del workshop guarderemo esempi
importanti di costruzione di opere presi dalla storia dell’arte e della fotografia.
2. LA PRATICA ARTISTICA
Inizio della pratica.
Si partirà da uno stimolo comune che permetterà al gruppo di lavorare su un’idea, per mettere a
punto il metodo di lavoro. Successivamente ognuno lavorerà individualmente sviluppando un
proprio progetto personale.
3. LA STRADA ARTISTICA
Il terzo passo è la preparazione della strada per arrivare al progetto: come passo dal pensiero al
lavoro finito (sia esso una singola immagine o un intero progetto)?
In questa parte del workshop il lavoro consiste nella costruzione di quaderni nei quali raccogliere
pensieri e immagini preparatorie.
L’obiettivo è disporre di tutto il materiale necessario alla realizzazione dell’opera attraverso:
– suggerimenti di idee già esistenti: ricerca tematica su internet, libri ecc. Tutto quello che è già
stato fatto in proposito. Ricerca capillare. Stampa e confronto delle immagini.
– personalizzazione, tramite disegno o costruzione dell’immagine/progetto
– abbinare testi e parole. Impreziosire l’idea rendendola più forte. Eventuale aggiunta di disegni o
tutto quello che serve per migliorare la comprensione dell’idea.
4. COSA MANCA?
Ultimi dettagli da definire nella pre-produzione dell’opera:
– elenco materiale necessario | – luogo | – luce | – altre considerazioni
Il quadro per la produzione di un’opera è completo, manca solo l’atto finale, lo scatto.
Silvia Camporesi è nata nel 1973 a Forlì, dove vive e lavora.
Si è laureata in filosofia presso l'Università di Bologna e oggi è una delle più apprezzate e originali artiste
italiane che privilegiano l'utilizzo del mezzo fotografico.
Affianca l'attività artistica all'insegnamento di fotografia e critica dell'immagine.Ha realizzato molti progetti,
pubblicato, esposto in numerose mostre (www.silviacamporesi.it).
Italo-palestinian, former assistant of Richard Avedon and teacher at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, after a successful career as a fashion photographer recognized by the most prestigious magazines of the world, Mustafa Sabbagh focuses his research towards contemporary art through the mediums of photography and video-art, by a kind of aesthetic counter-canon in which punctum is the skin as diary of individual’s uniqueness.
Harmony of imperfection, psychological inquiry and anthropological research through the construction of the image are the stylistic features that Sabbagh moves with ease from the glossy pages, to the white cubes of the world's most famous museums and galleries - including the Musée de l'Élisée in Lausanne, considered as an international temple of contemporary photography.
Often protagonist of interviews and documentaries inquiring into his work, to date, Mustafa Sabbagh has been recognized by a photography historian the likes of Peter Weiermair as one of the 100 most influential photographers in the world, and one of the 40 most important nude portraitists - the only one from Italy, on an international basis.
His works are included in several internationally accredited publications (including Faces - the 70 most beautiful photography portraits of all time), in sold-out monographs (among which About Skin - ed. Damiani) and in many private and public permanent collections, both in Italy and abroad (here including the historical Farnesina Art Collection, the ArteFiera Foundation, and the acquisition of one of his unedited projects by the permanent contemporary art collection of MAXXI, Rome).
He’s now displaying an anthology exhibition “Mustafa Sabbagh. XI comandamento: non dimenticare” at ZAC Zisa Contemporary Art Zone in Palermo, 2000 mq in a former industrial hangar: 75 milestone photos form his past works, 10 videos and 3 site specific video installations, and the project acquired by the MAXXI museum, is presented for the first time.
Stefano Bombardieri is born in Brescia in 1968. He learned artistic techniques from his sculptor father, and experimented with various materials. This helped him to acquire a great knowledge on material and technique. His initial approach on sculpture was figurative, influenced by great masters of 1900s. Subsequently his studies evolved into a more philosophical orientation on art, based mainly on the concepts of “time and its perception” and “to experience pain in western cultures”. His works begin from the reality and reaches to imagination of fantastic universes and interior worlds. Besides from his hyper-realistic works, his expressions are related to arte povera, minimalism, video-installations and conceptual works.
Beginning from the 90s, he creates works of great dimensions for public and private spaces. He works between Italy, France and Germany.
He participated to the 52th Biennale di Venezia in the Pavilion of Syrian Arab Republic with his work “Europa Pallida Madre”, installed next to the Chiostro di San Francesco della Vigna, recreates the Column and the Lion of the St. Mark’s square.
Maurizio Camerani (Ferrara, 1951), graduated in Sculpture at Bologna’s Accademia di Belle Arti e Dams, lives and works in Ferrara. He started off as a video artist, handling electronic art and realising sculptures made up by solar panels. He achieved international fame thanks to the important video art fairs he has taken part, such as Montreal’s in 1984 and Locarno’s and Cologne’s in 1985. He exhibited at the XII Quadriennale Nazionale D’Arte (1996) and during “La coscienza luccicante” (2001) at Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni. What emerges in his works, through ritual and alchemic forms, are the energies hidden in human soul. His education as a video artist makes him perceive the video as a warm medium and sculpture as a cool medium. These both are means of expression that, in some of his works, Camerani uses synergistically. An example could be the piece Altrove (2008), shown at the MLB Home Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition Joan Mirò. La terra, occurred at Ferrara’s Palazzo dei Diamanti: Camerani’s great overturned equilibrist made by clay, on whose feet is placed a video showing an hypnotic dance that starts from ground but is pointed to the sky, recalls a reflection concerning the eternal succession of life and death that can be observed in the work of the Catalan artist. The latest installations the artist realised are associated through a consideration concerning the theme of humankind roots and the necessity of a universal spirituality, felt as the one and only safety net in a world characterized by precariousness.
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