Inaugurated during the last two weeks, there are eight new exhibitions on view. They differ in the subject as well as in the presented techniques like painting, video and installation. Despite the variety, journeys in unknown worlds, sound and erotic are recurring elements.
Matteo Tenardi – Luoghi Instabili* * La deriva delle cose e il ciclo dell’Acqua
(Matteo Tenardi – Unstable Places* *the drift of things and the water cycle)
9 September – 28 October 2017
Spazio Testoni
Via Azeglio 50, Bologna
www.spaziotestoni.it
Like the title of the exhibition, “Unstable Places” at the Spazio Testoni underlines the represented people by Matteo Tenardi often lack the ground contact. The lower body dissolves or is disguised. Others vanish, as they seem to be part of the contemplating spectators. Moreover, even a definition of category of artworks remains nebulous: they are photorealistic paintings, sculptures, collages and installations at the same time. In addition, there are small framed collages besides the quasi life-sized oeuvres. At first glance, they could be perceived as sketches for the bigger works; at second view, it becomes evident, that they are independent creations only with the same model.
La vita in una borsa. Meravigliosa storia di Alberta D.
(The life in a bag. Wonderful story of Alberta D.)
12 September – 14 October 2017
Abc.bo
Via Alessandrini 11, Bologna
https://www.facebook.com/Abc.bo
For over 30 years, Alberta D. lived with her handbags, by collecting and designing them. Now she decided to sell the 500 models from three centuries. Before they will be scattered in the four winds, the purses are on view in the rooms of the association abc.bo and can be bought at modest prices. Only a special selection with the most precious exemplars will be sold in an auction at the end of the exhibition on 14th of October. Even for non-buyers the show is interesting, because it pretty well illustrates the history of design of a nearly every day object.
Luca Serio – My Jazz
15 September – 11 October 2017
Galleria B4
Via Vinazzetti 4/b, Bologna
www.galleriab4.it
The gallery B4 and Luca Serio invite to attend a soundless jazz concert. Luca Serio creates his paintings by a process of definition, cancellation and regeneration. As result, the pictures might remind different great artists like Degas or Rembrandt but they are at the same time personal works, which illustrates the jazz music visually.
Nel segno di Manara. Antologica di Milo Manara
(In the sign of Manara. Anthology of Milo Manara)
22 September 2017 – 21 January 2018
Palazzo Pallavicini
Via San Felice 24, Bologna
www.palazzopallavicini.com
Milo Manara is an internationally known cartoonist and illustrator. First working on Fumetti neri series (black comics), he later created as well political sketches and historical novels inter alia about the Borgia (2004-2008) and more recently Caravaggio (2014-2017). In the exhibition at the Palazzo Pallavicini there are now around 130 works in seven sections on view, which illustrate Manara’s oeuvre as well as painter and portraitist. Illustrations and drawings testify his collaboration with Federico Fellini and Hugo Pratt. Until now, unpublished watercolour-paintings of Brigitte Bardot, created in the last years, refer to his role as father of erotic fantasy. Self-evident, extracts of the Mozart-series (2005) could not be missing in a historical place like the Palazzo Pallavicini, where the composer himself performed in his time.
Angiola Gatti – You touched me
23 September – 11 November 2017
CAR DRDE
Via Azzo Giardino 14/a, Bologna
www.cardrde.com
The exhibition “You touched me” is an accumulation of oppositions. Formally, there are two kinds of techniques: “painting” and “photography”. “Painted” on unstretched canvas the colour application is made by different tools, in principal by pen and pencil. Sometimes the artist adds oil stick and rapidograph (ink pen). Due to the large size of the surface, it is a long process and, for the artist, part of the artistic creation. The result are signs, which could be explained by themselves. Despite the hard tools like pen and pencil, the outcome has a smooth effect.
In contrast to that are Angiola Gatti’s black and white photos of small glass plates with their sharp edges. Since the process is even here part of the creation, the first step is a sculptural. Through the application of light and the following taken photo, the three-dimensional ephemeral sculpture is transformed into a two-dimensional oeuvre, which shows lines and geometric forms.
La Lunga Strada di Sabbia
(The long Street of Sand)
23 September – 14 October 2017
LOCALEDUE
Via Azzo Giardino 12 c, Bologna
www.localedue.it
“The long Street of Sand” is a video-project curated by “Pleasant Journeys into Faraway Lands” which analyses the intersections between touristic and artistic images. According to the exhibition title, the floor of the showroom is spread with sand and there are two camping chairs in front of the screen. There are video-projections by the artists Marco Casella, Luca Coclite, Mimì Enna, Melania Fusco and Stefania Galegati Shines on view.
Milan Grygar – Antifona
23 September – 11 November 2017
P420
Via Azzo Giardino 9, Bologna
www.p420.it
“Antifona” is the second solo exhibition by the Slovakian artist Milan Grygar at P420. It could be seen, as sequel of the first. In 2014 were early paintings from the 1960s and 70s on view. Currently, more recent oeuvres are presented. All creations have in common, that they relate the visual image to sound, as this is the constant in Milan Grygar’s work since the mid-1960s. In the first room, there are mainly watercolour paintings in small format. An exception is made by three bigger black dominated compositions in mixed technique called “Antifona”. Not by surprise, the term is borrowed from music and is generally used for a call and response style of singing. The second room is like a clash of drums: four large-sized canvases pervade the space by their intercommunication. By the selection of the works, respose is taken literally.
Ann Hirsch – Submarine Society
23 September – 11 November 2017
Gallleriapiù
Via del Porto 48 a/b, Bologna
www.gallleriapiu.com
In “Submarine Society” Ann Hirsch carries us off in two different underworlds. The first part of the exhibition “Iceberg series” shows through drawings the secret desires of the artist. Like a Freudian iceberg only the tip of the consciousness sticks out. In the lower section of the bubble are the ideas of her unconscious visible.
Inaccessible for minors is the second part “Cuts series”, because here the artist illustrates the world of porn. However, she not only project her – from the internet edited – visual material in seven categories, but endowed the film with her soundtrack, which could change the perception. A pleasant musical background might suggest more acceptance to borderline scenes; a technical explanation might kill erotic feelings in a supposedly stimulating performance.
