Artists

                  CAMORRA
                                             the art exhibition

Afterall, Monica Biancardi, Raffaele Boemio, Piero Chiariello, Cyop & Kaf, Fiorenzo D’avino, Bruno De Stefano, Sebastiano Deva, Giuseppe Di Guida, Mario Fabbroni, Luciano Ferrara, Barbara La Ragione, Giacomo Montanaro, Walter Picardi, Carmine Rezzuti, Sergio Riccio, Federica Rispoli


AFTERALL Half-an-hour, 2008 Digital video 30 min.

CONCEPT
Figures twisting like images reflected into the mirrors of consciousness, appear like oneiric visions carrying messages to decode. The slow transformation of the faces recalls the personal interpretation and the meaning of the outer influences on the thought of the social reality. The space limits the expression while the open space background leads to a sense of hope and change.

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AFTERALL , i.e. Silvia Viola Esposito, born in Napoli, in 1975 - Enzo Esposito, born in Napoli in 1977. they took part to collective exhibitions as: 2008 Add01, N.EST 2.0 The making of city curated by G. del Vecchio, S. Palumbo, project room, Madre Museum, Napoli; 2007 SottoSale, web live performance, Lanificio 25 Napoli; 2006 WHITELIGHTinMULTIPLICATION, curated by P.E.Redion and L.Couzinier.


MONICA BIANCARDI Our Lady of Rubbish, 2008 cm. 80 x 150 Photography

CONCEPT
The work is an open reference to the sea of rubbish in which Napoli sails since months. The tragic situation seems to find a solution in the religious reference rooting in the traditional Neapolitan redeeming concept. The figure with brightening whiteness and seraphic expression perfectly opposes with the very colourful covers of stinky waste provoking a benevolent smile and a spontaneous pray.

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Monica Biancardi starts very young her activity as photographer. Portrays is the title of the first solo exhibition she presented in Napoli (Franco Riccardo Gallery, 2003), Barcelona, Paris and Milan (Il Diaframma, 2004). Among the other, here her exhibitions: Adora Calvo Gallery in Salamanca; Las Rozas Gallery in Madrid; Studio Lattuada Gallery in Milano; LE OPERE E I GIORNI – La vanitas curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. Her works are exhibited in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France-Paris, in the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal-Paris, in the National Gallery for Modern Art in Rome and at FNAC-Paris;


RAFFAELE BOEMIO Voiceless, 2008 cm.170 x 150 Mixted technique on canvas

CONCEPT
“Aphonia” is the condition of silence and the impossibility to express uneasiness, the absence of sounds gathers and concentrates in the pure lines framing the absolute and almost unreal figure. The earthly colours reveal the tragedy of an existence unable to be heard and loosing its own awareness.

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Raffaele Boemio graduated at the Fine Arts Academy in Napoli. He teaches painting topics at the High School of Cardito (NA). In 1978 he founded with Haebel and Domenico Natale the X/Arte group cooperating with the Aesthetical Operators Movement in the social. He took part to several exhibition in Italy and abroad. His works are part of private and public collections.


PIERO CHIARIELLO Conversation in three with few light, 2007 cm 115,5 x 50 Digital print on pvc

CONCEPT
In the dark silence the conversation between elements distant in the time suggests fillings of the illicit power. A secret agreement joins the characters that, in the dark, agree on the destiny of a save mankind.

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Piero Chiariello was born in Torre del Greco in 1972. he studied Architecture at the "Federico II", University in Napoli. He paints and composes music since 1989. Since 1995 along the use of paint-brushes he uses the ne west technologies and finds his own personal style. He exposes in plenty of collective exhibitions.


CYRO (CYOP) Cultural industry, 2008 cm 54 x 54 Mixed technique

CONCEPT

The light outline of a factory carved in metal is tinged with bloody red invading the surrounding pace. The symbols of a decayed society pretending to be “politically correct” glide from the chimney flue. This is the industry of culture seeming it is producing pretence and out of which the organized CAMorra expands under the silent approval of a powerless respectability. The visual reflection recalls the abandoned industrial shed in the periphery, once work activities scenarios and, therefore, development; now just container of breakup.

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Cyop&Kaf on this occasion parted and expressed themselves singularly. Over their shoulders a career of Graffiti artists in the streets and museums …



KAF Untitled, 2008 cm. 47 x 57 Mixed technique

CONCEPT

The message of submission and economical over-power by a criminal entity is rendered through a clear and direct language. The evil being is lightened by the golden colour – of course referring to the matter through which subjugation is carried and turns to mere ghosts those ones trying to survive.


LUCIANO FERRARA Peripheries, 1980/2000 cm 40x50 Photo on paper worked with silver salts

CONCEPT
The picture shows a piece of the Neapolitan periphery. Deprived of any lively space, the houses witness unauthorized building and the way Camorra has subtly influenced urban structures. The Horror Vacui which determines the anguish in registering a moment fixed in the time assuming the valence of eternal status.

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Luciano Ferrara is a freelance photographer since 70s and cooperates with the main Italian and International magazines. He worked for exhibitions and publications like: “Luciano Ferrara Reporter: Napoli e oltre", Milan, Mazzotta; 1985 “L'ultimo villaggio, vent'anni di fotogiornalismo a Napoli” realized on occasion of the G8 summit. He has been assigned the “Atri” prize by Istituto Abruzzese per Storia della Resistenza e dell'Italia contemporanea for Photography for Peace and Freedom.


GIACOMO MONTANARO Untitled, 2007 cm170x100 Acid and scratches on photographic paper

CONCEPT
Two human figures opposing, two contrasts, black and white, good and evil, the daily violence yoke that forces everybody – none excluded – to submit. Victim and persecutor are located in succession. The work plays with the ambiguity of the difference of roles: it is the dark figure to be tied, in fact. The bowed head is sign of the defeat for the camorrist abuse and oppression.

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Giacomo Montanaro was born in Torre del Greco (NA) on June the 22nd 1970. After attending the artistic high school there, he started the Fine Arts Academy studies in Napoli, where he graduated with full marks in 1993 after the master Augusto Perez. The human figure, expressed in its synthetic, fundamental traits, always in strong emotional impact, distinguishes his painting. Since 2002 he abandons canvas and colours and starts working by using acids and photographic papers support.


SEBASTIANO DEVA Camorra’s eye, 2003/2008 Digital video with audio

CONCEPT
The Big Brother eye spies and imposes its presence. The mysterious entity controls with its terrific gaze the actions all around defining its inspection through a magmatic and penetrating sound. The image is disturbing and perfectly mirrors the nightmare of psychological submission.

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Sebastiano Deva is an artist experimenting different artistic languages, from performance to theatre to video. He exhibited in Italy, France, Poland. His work is currently exhibited at the Sistema Binario exhibition, curated by Eugenio Viola and Adriana Rispoli, at the Mergellina station, Napoli.


FEDERICA RISPOLI I can’t see, 2008 cm 50x50 Oil on canvas

CONCEPT
The face of a man shows fear and horror of all those forced to watch with no possibility to react. The desperation of those having no chance than cover the face with the hands so as not to see. But the eyes are wide as the soul cannot accept, the soul must watch to know the truth. To have the chance, one day, to speak, to cry to the world the horrors he assisted powerless.

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Federica Rispoli tells a world covered with blood, a burning city, describing dark landscapes. His research is animated by a strong ethical tension and proposes itself as an act of denunciation towards a violent society. Convinced that art must also carry a social involvement, he cooperates with “Corriere del Mezzogiorno” and with “L’Osservatorio sulla Camorra e l’Illegalità” newspapers creating illustrations and photographic reportage.


SERGIO RICCIO Ercolano, 1999 cm 74x120 Photografical print on aluminium
 

CONCEPT
A wall oppressing and occluding the vitality of the volcano that oleographically works as landscape to the lack of development of a territory torn to pieces. The jail elevates and imposes its condition of closed space beyond which an active world sleeps and is hardly able to make itself heard. The shadows of a prison power stands out on a wall of metaphors of real and always present entities.

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Sergio Riccio, photographer, cooperated with important magazines of architecture and design. Interested to the photographical language and to the result of this technique among philosophical reflections, he dedicated to several perspectives: Vedere essere, Napoli, 1998; Bagnoli anno zero, Napoli and Paris, 2003; Le luci di Napoli, Colonnese 2004. he has also dedicated a trilogy to the Baroque, Liberty and Vesuvius.


WALTER PICARDI Caccaricca, 2007 cm 130 x 15 x 15 Plexiglas, poliexpanded, synthetic ring with diamond

CONCEPT
The shrine usually containing precious objects becomes case for the society wickedness. The hypocrisy of an apparent richness reveals itself in its absurdity through the bejewelled excrement. Reflection takes the place to disgust and the game turns the gaze into thought. Irony spans the uneasiness wave while the shameless exhibition acclaims its real valence.

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Born in Napoli in 1978, he realized plenty of solo and collective exhibitions during his career; among them: Have a good time, 2007 Changing role project Napoli; Aliscoelumlicet 2007 Changing role Napoli; Arte e omosessualità da Von Gloeden a Pierre et Gilles, curated by Eugenio Viola, Palazzo della Regione, Milan/Palazzina reale, Florence; ….loading….curated by F. Bonzi, Castello di Acerra, Napoli; Sistema Binario 2008, curated by Adriana Rispoli, Eugenio Viola, Metro station in Mergellina, Napoli.




FIORENZO D’AVINO The weight of family 2008 cm 27 x 27 x 27 Resin, Plexiglas, book

CONCEPT
The metaphor of weight is the sense of the historical oppression of a deep-rooted and omnipresent criminality. The scientific data of the existence of this illegal reality is in the book, in the words but, above all, in the actions perpetrating in the time always same. Now almost an existential habit, the criminal family makes its presence heard.

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Fiorenzo D’avino dedicates to the manipulation of matter by playing with daily or design elements. He exhibited in the best galleries in Napoli and uses his skills in several fields with transversal elasticity.


GIUSEPPE DI GUIDA I was born in camorra land, 2008 cm. 400 x 150 x 50 Installation

CONCEPT
The Padre Pio statue dominates on the top of a tyres mount, protecting its safety from fire by vandals. The installation shows on the video the letter of the artist addressed to the exhibition curator. Words slowly flow and tell the casual finding of the saint saving from flames the waste of society.

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Giuseppe Di Guida was born in 1955 in Lusciano (CE) where he lives and works. He dedicated to a constant artistic activity since 1988, through a work crossing the complex contemporary artistic languages stratification.



BARBARA LA RAGIONE Untitled-0, 2008 cm. 57x87 Photograph

CONCEPT
The work shows hybrid beings belonging to a sort of ancient religion symbolized by mysterious signs of strength and imposition relationships. The animal imposing is the warning sign of recognition signals and belongingness to the sect of the power still today influencing the social state.

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Born in Napoli in 1974 where she lives and works. Photographer and performer, she works in Napoli with the Umberto Di Marino gallery with which she realized a solo exhibition "INT.Webcam" in 2002 and took part to several international art fairs (Arte Fiera Bologna, MiArt Milan, Arco 2004 Madrid) and in Mantova with Massimo Carasi gallery. In 2001 she took part to the “X Biennial of the Young artists of Europe and the Mediterranean” in Sarajevo, Bosnia/Herzegovina.


CARMINE REZZUTI Untitled, 2000_2006 cm. 195 x 195 Acrilic on canvas

CONCEPT
The wild feline devouring everything is symbol of CAMorra, of what seems to keep in its jaws a place in fire burning the throat of those incorporating it. The terrific animal with lava eyes, predominates and menaces with its massive and worrying presence. The work mirrors an oppressing and real condition.

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He lives in Napoli, his first aesthetical-technical artistic researches (fantasy games) are dated 60s. The artistic universe by Rezzuti is popolate by wild animals and small and nice monsters becoming symbols of paranoia; they represent and embody the aggressive aspects of mankind. He took part to several exhibitions and in 2006 at "i cortili dell'arte" (the courtyards of art) Villaricca Municipality, Culture Council Office ARTEXARTE.