EXHIBITION

Residenze #1

AlbumArte , 10/11/2016 - 11/26/2016

Via Flaminia, 122, 00196 Roma, Italy

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On Tuesday, October 11th from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm, AlbumArte will inaugurate the exhibition Residenze #1, curated by Paola Ugolini, presenting the works of Flavio Favelli and Gianni Politi.

The show will constitute the first appointment of the project Residenze, joining the already extensive program of temporary exhibitions, talks, concerts and presentation organized by AlbumArte, which aims to reflect around the theme of artistic residency, bringing artworks to the exhibition spaces of Villa Poniatowsky’s former stables, artworks which have been exclusively produced during the artist-in-residence programs and exposed in Italy for the first time.

The double personal of the artists Flavio Favelli and Gianni Politi, showing pieces realized during the residencies organized by AlbumArte in Istanbul and Prague, will highlight how the practice of residency may highly influence how the artist works – specifically, the way of working of a young artist and of a more experienced one – resulting in the creation of artworks which are quite distant from the artist’s modus operandi.

The two residencies, realized by AlbumArte in 2014 with the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Turkey, the Italian Institutes of Culture in Istanbul and Prague, the Yapı Kredi Cultural Activities Arts and Publishing and the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Turkey, were finalized with two personal exhibitions: Flavio Favelli ‘s Grape Juice, curated by Vittorio Urbani, at the Galata Rum Okulu (the Galata Greek School) in Istanbul and Gianni Politi’s giovane pittore romano, curated by Paola Ugolini, at the Italian Institute of Culture of Prague. The works of both exhibitions now converge in AlbumArte’s spaces, for the first time in Italy.

The two artists work on quite distant yet similar fields.

In his work, Flavio Favelli constantly rebuilds his past. The bourgeois furniture of his grandmother's house in Bologna, the Fabbri black cherries cans, the soft porno movies posters of a still innocent and optimistic Italy. The neon lights of the courtrooms of his parents’ divorce and the souvenirs from his Roman trips. An hulking past revisited in each work as in a psychoanalysis session, a past which has disappeared in Istanbul in order to make room to History and past of a nation, with its own symbols and dreams of modernity which, as of now, seem to have failed.

Similarly, Gianni Politi traces back on his childhood’s memories through painting; in his small canvases, the face of his father emerges inbetween the brush strokes and his creative process picks from the past, from the scraps of his previous works, becoming part of his new productions which are cognitive landscapes realized with fragments of the recent past. The big monochrome canvases realized in Prague are quite three-dimensional rather than pictorial, and they represent a completely new creative moment within the practice of this young artist who finds expression through a very contemporary language although using a traditional medium.

In these new works that Favelli and Politi realized while in Istanbul and Prague, the genius loci of both cities inspired their production, History with its own magnificence and failures for Favelli, and the art history, the Barocco's overwhelming circular movement for Politi.

The project Residenze anticipates a second appointment in December 2016, where Sabrina Casadei's works will be presented, developed during the first months of 2016 while on a residency at the Nordic Artists Centre Dale in Norway.

The third appointment will be in November 2017 with a show dedicated to the Spanish artist Juan Zamora’s residency at NIROX Foundation in South Africa.

Residenze #1 is part of the events of Fuori Quadriennale, 16th Art Quadriennale Altri tempi, altri miti (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, October 13, 2016 – January 8, 2017). AlbumArte also wishes to thank Studio SALES by Norberto Ruggeri.

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Flavio Favelli

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