Events Archive #1
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White Pages
a drawing exhibition at the Pickled Arts Centre, Beijing (People's republic of China)
curated by Marco Antonini
WHITE PAGES follows on the line of the "Wall List" group show that World Art media hosted at the Broadway Gallery, in Soho, NY, on November 04.These pages identify with a year of personal impressions and unexpected discoveries. A difficult, thrilling, revolutionary (for my lifestile, at least) first year as a New York resident.
What makes art desirable? What switches our attention from simple interest to personal involvement? The "Wall List" exhibit focused on these issues. I tried to walk on this border-lines gathering some of the best art that I met in the past year's shows. Art that interested me, captivated me, or just made me curious; artworks that survived in my memory and in my heart, resisting the pressure and winning in the competition with hundreds (if not thousands) of other artworks seen. Vocationally small, often intimate art. WHITE PAGES is the créme of the aforementioned "natural selection" process that I operated during last year. 6 artists that embody a trans-national feeling and attitude and suggest new takes and smooth variations on what art-critic Jerry Saltz defined "Termite Art", an art wich makes its rules, that slowly erodes all external stimula and influences to remix them into tiny debris' cocktails, that refuses or accepts depending on personal feelings and attitude.
Marco Antonecchia picks from american popular culture and imagery with a basterdized, as-seen-on-TV, attitude. The drawings of Diane Barcelowsky are short trips into brainy, often uncomfortable scenarios. Harrison Haynes explores past and present trough the lenses of personal memories and the formal filter of photographic reproductions. Arrington De Dyoniso 's art and music reflects his search for a higher spirituality trough wild quotation and fablistic imagery. The Drawings of Kelie Bowman reveal details and fragments of sometimes dark, mysterious bedtime stories. Van Hanos ' art moves the viewer forward to timeless scenarios where witty details enrich compositions of outstanding emotional power and formal balance.
  (www.pickleart.com)
From: 4 to 28 February 2005
Gallery reception: 4/5 february 2005
At: Pickled Art Centre. FEI JIA CUN CHAO YANG district, LAI GUANG YING DONG LU, BEIJING 100103
Info: tel. 8610-6432-7590 // email: info@nyartsmagazine.com
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Residenziale ANIC
Suitcase Magazine is OUT NOW! check the availability of this awsome limited edition online at www.suitcasemagazine.com
 
Our Story (so far):
Our affair with the Residenziale (ResA, now on),started an year ago. Angela was working at a paper on the history and development of industrial dorms around Ravenna, and ResA revealed as one of the more fascinating structures. Still inhabited by few, ghostly tenants, the "Z" shaped, 1957 built dorm lied surrounded by the dull, oppressing environment of the ANIC chemical plant site: a near hell of humming background noises, steam and pollution (the same landscape that inspired the italian masterpiece "Deserto Rosso").After a series of photo sessions, field recordings and audio-video interviews with the tenants and historical/architectural research, ResA revealed in all its decadent beauty. The story of a community of outcasts (the building is located in the middle of nowhere, 4km. from Ravenna), colleagues and comrades sharing common routine, tied to their unsafe job, completely ignored by the near city. The poetic, dark-grey beauty of this site inspired us, and one of our main goals was to "reveal" the site to the broader community of Ravenna, and start a discussion plan on the eventual re-use of such an interesting (and well preserved) industrial structure. We truly believe this wouldn't be just industrial archeology.
A photo essay about the history and present oblivion of ResA, is out on Suitcase Magazine issue #1 (upcoming). A boston, based mag you can check at www.suitcasemagazine.com . The photo essay includes txts by Angela Longo, Marco Antonini and photos by Christian Contin, Simona Basilavecchia and Francesco Torlone.
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photos: unknown, Simona Basilavecchia, click on images to jump to "Suitcase" website
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the Broadway Gallery + World Art Media present:
Michael Ricardo Andreev
Arrington De Dyoniso
Van Hanos
Jason Clay Lewis
Hanna Liden
Sara Rossi
Pool Of Radiance  
curated by Marco Antonini
(...)the need for a getaway that can’t be fulfilled in everyday's reality, inspires fantastic, fablistic imagination. In visual arts, this mix of dark and fantastic aesthetics is developing into a truly interesting, sophisticated and rich phenomenon. The Fantasy universe, dominated by Tolkien's standards (which eventually go back to Wagner's "Ring Cycle", norse and teutonic mythology) seems to be a more credited starting point than any history book or museum department for many artists (...).
<from the introduction>
download full "Pool of Radiance". Unedited Version. 
 
imgs: Jason Clay Lewis: "fur owl", Hanna Liden: "Swamp walkers"
 
 
some photos from the opening. December 3, 04
Click Here  for full exhibit setup
at: the Broadway Gallery (main room), 473 Broadway (@Grand, in SoHo), New York.
from: december 3rd through december 21st, 2004
gallery reception: friday, december 3rd, h.18:00-20:00
hours: tue-sat, from 11:00 to 18:00
info: (212) 274-8993 mail: info@nyartsmagazine.com
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Marco Antonecchia
Diane Barcelowsky
Fletcher Boote
Magalie Guerin
Van Hanos
Jane Mount
Gabriele Picco
Qubogas
Wall List
art that I would have loved to buy during the last year and/or a simple, instinctive art show
FULL PRESS RELEASE
from: november 1 through november 15, 2004
gallery reception: sat, november 6, h.18:00-20:00
at: the Broadway Gallery (project room), 473 Broadway (@Grand, in SoHo) , New York.
hours: tue-sat, from 10:00 to 18:00
info: (212) 274-8993 mail: info@broadwaygallery.com
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photos: Diane barcelowsky, Qubogas
  
photos: opening reception
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blu
paper resistance
firehouse
the (other) net
3esempi di street art a confronto
23sec esatti e il mio powerbook é su internet, la rete. Posso vivere alcuni tipi di esperienze, scaricaere alcuni tipi di dati ed incontrare certe persone in una certa dimensione relazionale, quella della virtualità.
Non lasciate che vi convincano che il web sia un luogo reale, tantomeno che sia l’unico luogo.
35sec esatti e i miei passi possono portarmi sulla strada, semplicemente un’altra “rete”.
Posso intraprendere alcuni percorsi, incontrare alcune persone e vivere alcune sensazioni in una certa dimensione, quella fisica. Posso esercitare i miei sensi assopiti ed il mio libero arbitrio, scoprire e scegliere. La strada é viva e vegeta nei lavori di alcuni artisti che l’hanno scelta come mezzo di comunicazione in progetti e/o modalità espressive che la privilegiano, la esaltano, incanalano al meglio le sue energie incuranti di cellulari, shopping online, navigatori satellitari per automobile etc.
Poster, graffiti, adesivi... qualunque mezzo é quello giusto per occupare la superficie esterna delle cose, insidiare lo spazio pubblico, cercare di sedurlo e ricondurlo alla sfera privata (...)
grazie a:
www.mirada.it
www.inguine.net
dove:
da Sabato 22 febbraio* a Venerdì 14 marzo ‘03 c/o eXtipografia, via Pascoli 31, Ravenna
photos: Blu, Paper Resistance  
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Rock>Action
is a visual arts exhibit. Artists will be chosen from the contemporary alternative rock scene (obviously according a wide meaning to the "alternative rock" definition...). The exhbit is curated by Marco Antonini, young curator of the MIRADA staff (for info about MIRADA activities: www.mirada.it).
The proposal of this exhibit is to focus on the visual work of artists well known in the musical field, hopefully revealing an hidden side of their artistic sensibility.
This programmatical choice comes from the assumption of the high quality level of the works of some artists (the ones selected for the exposition), a quality that is necessary to open the exhibition to a wider audience, out of the simple exposition of fans-only material.
The comparison between visual style and musical style of each artist, by the way, will be of great interest for alternative rock conossieurs and for music lovers in general.
The actual catalogue of the exhibit:
1. Mick Turner (Dirty Three)
2. Meira Asher
3. Cynthia Connolly
4. Geoff Farina (karate)
5. Jodi Buonanno (Secret Stars)
6. Arrington DeDyoniso (OldTimeRelijun)
7. Christophe Stoll (Nitrada/Motorambo)
8. Harrison Haynes (Les Savy Fav)
The place of the exhibition will be the SESTOSENSO gallery in Bologna (Italy) fom October4 to October26 2002. The city is perfect for this kind of event, being Bologna one of the youngest, arty and musically involved cities in Italy.
Anyway, Bologna is not the only spot for this show. Further shows are being programmed in Ferrara and Ravenna and we are looking for Galleries and Museums interested in optioning the event in Europe and in the U.S.A.
DOWNLOAD full curatorial statement
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photos: Mick Turner,Harrison haynes.
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Stare in Casa é Qualcosa di Spettacolaaare
Sesto Senso, via G.Petroni 9c, Bologna (Adiacenze Piazza Verdi)
A cura di Marco Antonini. Testi di Marco Antonimi, Francesca Colasante, Giovanni Liconti, Giuseppe Padula
Periodo:dal 4 al 30 aprile. Lun-Ven 11:00-22:00, Sabato 18:00-23:00
foto di:
simona basilavecchia
lia pari
loretta zaganelli
Giusto due righe sullo stare in casa come attività a se stante; tanto su questo argomento chi è dentro è dentro e chi è fuori e fuori. Stare in casa è un’esperienza positiva ed appagante, fuori dalla casa c’è il vuoto, o comunque: il vuoto che c’è dentro è più interessante di quello al di fuori delle care, vecchie 4mura.
Stare in casa è qualcosa che si porta dentro di sé. Stare in casa davvero bene vuol dire sentirsi in casa anche quando si è fuori, esposti alle intemperie, immersi nelle informazioni, negli stimoli che “dentro” ci arrivano rarefatti, selezionati, filtrati. E quindi immensamente più sottili ed interessanti.
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