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Lorenza Lucchi Basili
dal 20/9/2002 al 13/10/2002
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20/9/2002

Lorenza Lucchi Basili

Noass, Riga

A-B Dambis. Lucchi Basili's project for Noass involves various photographic b/w and color series, and feeds upon the contrast between small photographic modules (as in Space thirty-one, New York, here shown as a European premiere, and Space Twenty-two, Rotterdam, at its first release ever) and others of large dimension (Space nineteen, Paris and Space thirty, Buenos Aires).


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Noass is proud to introduce the first solo show in Latvia of Lorenza Lucchi Basili. Lucchi Basili's work, essentially based upon photographic installations, often uses other media (sound, text). Her research originates in an investigation on architectural form to inquire into deep, as yet unsuspected aspects of human condition in the technological era.
One year after the solo show at Belleza y Felicidad, Buenos Aires, Lorenza Lucchi Basili presents another project in an alternative non-profit space, way out of the geography of the art marketplace.
Lucchi Basili's project for Noass involves various photographic b/w and color series, and feeds upon the contrast between small photographic modules (as in Space thirty-one, New York, here shown as a European premiere, and Space Twenty-two, Rotterdam, at its first release ever) and others of large dimension (Space nineteen, Paris and Space thirty, Buenos Aires).
Also released is the video Space twenty-five, Berlin (on the air a few months ago at Women with Vision 2002: The Restless Age, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and also forthcoming at a three-person exhibition in the University of Indiana Art Gallery, Terre Haute, early in 2003), where the homonymous photographic series is mounted in synchrony with an ancient Byzantine liturgical song.
In all the works on show, in the seemingly synchronic patterns of the black and white and color photographic series as well as in the explicit diachronicity of the video, the architectural structures turn into abstract signs, fragments of an archetypal code. They are doors toward a contemplative mental dimension which surprisingly sparkles from the photographic experience of places that are dominated by obsessing rhythms of activity, deafening noise, poisoned chemical smell. The sublime melody of the liturgical song in the Space twenty-five, Berlin video, where the flow of close-up details of huge dock cranes is governed by the in-breath of the singer, highlights a mysterious yet clear affinity between two apparently antithetical worlds. An affinity that upsets and moves, prompting questions about the contemporary sense of commonplace-old-hat concepts such as beauty, form, rapture.
A catalog with a text by Gabi Scardi is published for the exhibition, which will be part of the official program of the first edition of Festival Italiano in Riga, a yearly initiative of ICE-Riga (Italian Foreign Trade Institute in Riga) aimed at promoting Italian culture, products and way of life in the Baltic Countries.

Lorenza Lucchi Basili has recently had a solo exhibition at Su Palatu, Villanova Monteleone, a new space entirely devoted to innovative research on photographic languages, which has been accompanied by the publication of a catalog and of a monographic book with texts by Giuliana Altea and Marco Magnani and by Silvano Tagliagambe. She has moreover recently been part of group shows at Viafarini (Milan), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Kunst Merano Arte (Meran), New Jersey Center for Visual Arts (Summit), the Art Center Gallery of Missouri State University (Warrensburg).

Noass is an independent, non-profit space that in the past few years has presented some among the most advanced and innovative experiences in contemporary young Latvian and international art, with a special attention to video art, often in cooperation with like independent realities from other countries. The exhibition activity of Noass takes place in a huge house-boat moored on the A-B dambis on the river bank opposite to that of Old Riga. Noass also develops outdoor projects to make an as rich as possible contribution to the cultural and artistic life of Riga.

Festival Italiano, September 1-30, various venues, Riga. ICE-Riga: Palasta 9, Riga 1050
e-mail: ice.riga@actek.lv; web: http://www.italtrade.com/latvia

Image: Space thirty-one, New York, barium print on aluminum, 9 x 12 cm, 2001

Noass, A-B Dambis, Riga

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Lorenza Lucchi Basili
dal 20/9/2002 al 13/10/2002

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