Giovanni Ozzola
dal 3/6/2012 al 31/5/2012
Segnalato da
3/6/2012
Giovanni Ozzola
Ass. Culturale Doppelgaenger, Bari
Castaway Depot. 41gr 7' 31'' N 16gr 52' 0'' E - In a sentimental mood. Inaugurazione del nuovo spazio espositivo con una personale dell'artista fiorentino su tema del viaggio inteso come esplorazione. Tra i lavori esposti, dodici pietre di ardesia su cui sono state incise le rotte dei grandi navigatori, da Colombo a Charles Darwin.
On June 4th at 6.30 pm The Doppelgaenger Gallery (Bari) opens up
with the personal exhibition of Giovanni Ozzola, an artist in his
early thirties from Florence. He already has a CV rich in awards and
exhibitions in Italy and worldwide, from Amsterdam to Tokyo, from
London to Beijing.
Bari with its eternal-maternal embrace of the sea, with which
Giovanni Ozzola seems to have a deep bond, is pleased to welcome
Castaway Depot with subtitle 41° 7' 31'' N 16° 52' 0'' E - in a
sentimental mood geographic coordinates of the city.
Ozzola's creations have always told the story of light, time and
horizon, themes that are constantly handled with an aesthetic
richness in symbols and mysticism, but poor of "mathematics, in fact
he is proud to assert his nature as an "instinctive artist".
The works of art that Ozzola plans to exhibit in the very first act
of Doppelgaenger Gallery, are several and very different in shape.
The common denominator in his works is exploration. Navigation,
exploration, travelling are complex actions through which man,
facing his ancestral fears, can place himself into space and time.
This paves the way for further research to get to know ourselves.
On the 92 slate stones forming a single work of art the routes of
the most famous sailors and explorers have been engraved: from
Columbus to Magellan, from Zheng He to Charles Darwin. Maps without
any geographic reference where the journey - leaving for a
destination and then coming back - becomes more important than the
place itself.
In Giovanni Ozzola there is a strong desire of dealing with places
never seen before, going through the unknown, being castaway, all of
which are stages of a conscious journey. The conclusion of this
exhibition is represented by a series of photos representing the
horizon, the umpteenth of a relentless series and result of the last
stay of the artist in Bari. Nothing more than an empty space, in
front of the Adriatic Coast, whose image can generate a particular
sense of giddiness and the diluting becomes the start and the
conclusion of the knowledge path. The empty space feeds Joyce's
stream of consciousness that is the art of Giovanni Ozzola and is
steadily translated into images through the most various significant
media.
In the already extensive artistic production of Ozzola, who is used
to test the huge opportunities given by photography and video-art,
slate engravings represent an overall innovation. This is the first
time the artist puts himself against an idea that, insofar as
evident, seems to be stitched on the place which is hosting it: on
one side Bari and its indissoluble tie with the sea; on the other
Palazzo Verrone, with its façade that various eras have changed into
a wonderful architectural hybrid. The sea, time and their common
flowing, indissoluble tie between men and their nature as explorers
of the world and themselves.
Opening June 4th, 2012
Ass. Culturale Doppelgaenger - Palazzo Verrone
via Verrone, 8 - Bari