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15/9/2006

Il bel paese

Marella Gallery, Beijing

Artists: Simone Berti, Lara Favaretto, Luca Francesconi, Pietro Roccasalva, Andrea Salvino, Patrick Tuttofuoco

Curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio

A selection of some of the most interesting Italian artists of the new generation who will be exhibiting for the first time at MARELLA GALLERY BEIJING.

The Exposition, part of the intercultural exchange program 2006 (the year of Italy in China) is sponsorized by the Consiglio Regionale della Lombardia.

The new Italian art, the one that has been asserting since the second half of the Nineties, is at the same time a simple and complex mechanism to illustrate, in so far as Italy is an easy but intricate country to synthesize. It is easy because Italy is one of the few nations whose geographical shape is also an iconography, a figure, the one of a boot; it is intricate because of the deep-rooted life of a society built on several societies, an amalgamation of differences within its own image. Aim of this project is to show the richness that gives Italian art a distinct and comprehensive quality. Indeed, within its figurative shape, Italy seems to have a vocation towards images and as a consequence towards art and aesthetic. However, as we all know, there is no aesthetic without ethic, which is the quality, the speed of people’s lives and so far this is what allows assembling with the elements of form - a beautiful form - those of the analysis upon societies’ changes due to the globalization.

In this show, about ten artists from the last generation are invited to present, using different means of expression such as painting, sculpture, installation, video, performance and photography a variety of thematic including aesthetic, ethic, psychology, anthropology, sociology, spirituality, etc., and therefore what constitutes the character of a nation. Hence, art is never something detached but a discipline expressing, describing and investigating a reality it is made of and for which it has been created. In Italy, without any doubts, art is made for the country. Art made the country and it still makes it. It is not a case that Italy has been called “the beautiful country", a perfect definition referring on one side to the quality of art and on the other to the quality of life.

In these last few years we have been experiencing the increase of Western interest towards China, and we can perceive now how also this country is looking in our direction. 2006 is the year China decided to dedicate to Italy and, thus, what a better opportunity to let ourselves known and tell about us? For this reason we believe it is even more significant having the possibility and the obligation to present in China an exhibition on new Italian art. Among the artists taking part to this show there are Pietro Roccasalva, ‘Premio Rivelazione’ at the Rome Quadrennial 2005, Lara Favaretto, ‘Italy Award’ at the Venice Biennal 2005, Roberto Cuoghi, and they will all contribute with one or more works to palpably express this simple complexity. The show will be accompanied by a catalogue which will help to narrate the single and collective vitality of new Italian art. Furthermore, the catalogue won’t be a mere list of artists’ names and photos; it will include an historical collocation of Italy and its international relations since the Sixties and a singular focus on today’s situation. This last part will describe not only the works of each artist but also the nearby circumstances to which they relate.

Immagine: Pietro Roccasalva, Giocondita

Opening: 16 September 2006

Marella Gallery
4, Jiu Xian Qiao Road - Chao Yang District, Beijing - Pechino

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