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Invito Body, 2007
 
Rosaria Iazzetta G. Mastromatteo
Huang Yan G.Željka Galić
Pierre-Yves Le Duc Nina Nikolova
V. Starnone Melita Couta
Artur Holling Liu Yang
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BODY
Paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos,
installations, performances
CURATED
BY
Antonio Manfredi
OPENING
December 16th 2007 6.30 pm
December 16th 2007/ February 10th
December 2008
Klitsa
Antoniou
Cyprus
Elif Ayiter
Turkey
Raffaella Busdon
Italy
Melita
Couta
Cyprus
Giuseppe Di Guida
Italy
Alemka
Ðivoje
Croatia Huxiang Dong China
Gradski_Željka Galić
Croatia
Sergio Gentili
Italy Dario Goldaniga Italy Artur
Holling Germany
Rosaria Iazzetta
Italy Marlen Karlen Svizzerland Liz
Magic Laser USA
Pierre-Yves Le Duc
France Giuseppe Mastromatteo Italy
Monoscopestudio
Hungary Andrea Montagnani Italy Nina
Nikolova Bulgaria Odelot Group Spain
Jimmy Owenns
France Antonio Pannullo Italy Tina
Ponticelli Italy Oksana Shatalova
Kazakhstan
Vincenzo Starnone
Italy Cesare Vignato Italy Tadeu
Vilani Brazil Huang Yan China
Liu Yang
China
Qing Yue
China
John Brown, Juan Giordano
Wales
Real-time exhibition from Wales
Michele Ciardiello
Italy Action Art
Ivana D'Addona
Italy Music performance
Eliana Vamvakinos
Greece/Italy Video performance
Wanda Zyborska
Wales
Real-time
performance
from Wales
“BODY” exhibition aims to suggest an idea of the
corporeal in-between the concept of aesthetic
image and pure aesthetic representation. The
human body becomes means and subject of
emotional communication at the same time, it
turns into a sheet on which ancient graphics,
invasive insects or marvellous landscapes of
memories of far societies can be inscribed. The
body becomes statue, object of real
modifications witnessing the will to live on
one’s own body the sensations of mutation. Eyes
bent by a mysterious inner strength or faces
with signs of ageing but yet identical to
themselves. Portraits living in spite of the
artist like mirrors of unarmed spectators.
De-contextualised body becomes the ready-made of
the organic, material waste of digital era and
container of beauty out of which blooming plants
born of sockets of a mechanical entity are
generated.It looks like the body becomes means of
communication, matter to shape and new means to
express individual freedom. Traditional
representative themes and behaviour codes flee
to give space to matter: from total assertion of
itself to denial of the physical through the
virtual. Reproduction of dramatic events
experienced on one’s own body exorcises evil,
the wound is becoming a sign of victory and a
language to communicate with the other from the
self. Sacred images showing a never born body,
animals created by genetic reviews or simple
body-objects to which survival is denied. The
meaning of the concept of individual is turned
over thus leaving open the possibility of
thought and interpretation of the corporal
generating crisis on the crystallization of
ideas on this topic. Bodies wrapped in
transparent sheets recall veiled maiden of old
tradition but the actual female figures are
suffocated; not protected but bended or covered
by a shroud. A woman flirts with the mirror but
is covered with hair thus bringing to the
extreme the reflection on aesthetic value like
in the work featuring a bust which contortion
produces hypnotic lights and shadows. An
exhibition rich in works which emotional impact
is strong with performances, acts and a
real-time net connection from Wales. A webcam
will allow real bodies to virtually invade the
physical space of the Casoria Contemporary Art
Museum hinting at and denying the features of a
body: proximity and physical touch.
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