DIPLOMATIC ART 2017 / 2018, 3rd edition
CASA E TRASLOCO (3)
Home and
resettlement (3)
Exhibition SANDRO BRACCHITTA
(Italia) - opening in april 5th 2018, 18.00 h, at Galeria Pygmalion, Timișoara, curator Maria Orosan-Telea.
The Diplomatic
Art exhibition series that started in 2014 continues with the 2017-2018
edition, including several events dedicated to Italy (which opened the first
consulate in Timisoara, in 1922). The first phase of the project took place in
July 2017 - a study-tour conducted by the Prin Banat Association with the
anthropologist Francesco Marano (Università degli Studi della Basilicata,
Matera) and the artist Sandro Bracchitta (Accademia di Belli Arti, Palermo) on
a route described by Francesco Griselini in his book Attempt of Political and
Natural History of Timisoara’s Banat. The two residencies offered by the
Honorary Consulate of Italy in Timisoara, at the proposal of the Diplomatic Art
Association, were occasioned by the 300th anniversary of Francesco Griselini’s
birth. With a strong interdisciplinary approach, the two artistic events
(Francesco Marano's exhibition in November 2017
and Sandro Bracchitta’s exhibition in the spring of 2018) organized as a result of the two residencies are situated at the confluence of anthropology and contemporary art. The theme proposed is based on the concept of "home" (casa) in relation to "resettlement" (trasloco).
and Sandro Bracchitta’s exhibition in the spring of 2018) organized as a result of the two residencies are situated at the confluence of anthropology and contemporary art. The theme proposed is based on the concept of "home" (casa) in relation to "resettlement" (trasloco).
Starting from
the premise that "home" represents a mix of experiences and feelings
that relate to a certain place and to certain persons, the two exhibitions will
approach particular aspects and connections between stability and uprooting.
What makes you leave your home in order to re-organize your life elsewhere?
When does a totally foreign place become “home”? How does this happen today and
how did it happen in the past? The two particular cases that these artistic
events will bring to question are related to the current population of an area
in Southern Italy and the Italian colonists settled in Banat at the end of the
18th century.
Sandro Bracchitta
One of the most common motifs
used by SANDRO BRACCHITTA in his works is that of the house, which for the
artist is a symbolic space for refuge and protection. His hermetic houses,
without doors or windows could be interpreted as stable marks in vast,
unstructured universes. Referring to their significance, the artist speaks of
"the eternal search for protection against chaos." The houses
preserve in their walls and objects the memories of those who have lived there. They were silent witnesses of happiness and pain, of
intimate love and of shattered dreams.
Sandro Bracchitta’s houses appear
recurrently in his engravings and paintings, but also in three-dimensional form
as installations which enter into a subtle
dialog with the exhibition space where they are placed. (Maria Orosan-Telea,
curator)
Pioggia, 2009
Casa e ciotola, 2008
Semi, 2015
Tre case, 2014
Equilibrium B, 2009
Casa e ciotola, 2008
Ciprian Chirileanu, Andreea Medinski, Sandro Bracchitta,
Monica Pavel (from Honorary Consulate of Italy)
Casa migrante, 2018, instalation, detail
Casa migrante, 2018, instalation, detail
Casa migrante, 2018, performance
Casa migrante, 2018, performance
What characterizes Sandro Bracchitta
as the engraver is the color. Its engravings have a pictorial look, with
vibrant surfaces that apply strong, contrasting, very stimulating tones to the
eyes. Perhaps his training as a painter (at the Academia di Belle Arti in
Florence) speaks his word here. Also, the large dimensions they work on are
impressive, considering the bridge technique (cold needle) used.
The exhibition in Timisoara includes
engravings from the period 2009-2016, having as a common point a recurrent
laitmotif in the work of Bracchitta, namely, that of the house. The house is
for the artist a symbolic space for refuge and protection. These hermetic
structures, without doors or windows, capturing contour on amorphous
backgrounds, become stable landmarks in vast, unstructured universes. Referring
to their significance, the artist speaks of "the eternal search for
protection against chaos." The houses preserve the memories of those who
have lived in their walls and objects. They were silent witnesses of happiness
and pain, of intimate love and of shattered dreams.
Bracchitta's response to the challenge
of Diplomatic Art on the concept of "house" and "home" is
perfectly synthesized by the installation that he made specifically for the
Pygmalion exhibition and which we can therefore call an artistic intervention
site-specific. A string of gold-plated houses are placed on the wall of the
gallery to suggest an exodus, a population movement that starts downwards,
rises but goes down. It's the journey to find out better, but it can end in disappointment,
just as it can end in fulfillment. This is because home is not an outdoor
place, but rather a mood. Along with this symbolic arc of golden houses, the
artist disposed a wooden crate, which in turn contains a golden foil house.
This solid carcase is the one that served to transport part of the exhibition
from Ragusa to Timisoara. The artist fitted wheels, turning it into a moving
object that could be walked through gallery space to symbolically preserve the
idea of transfer and movement. The functional object thus turns into a
conceptual object.
Maria Orosan Telea
Timisoara, April 5th, 2018
Sandro Bracchitta (b. 1966, http://www.bracchitta.it/) studied in Florence where he attended the
Course of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, getting his degree in 1990; in
the same year he began working as a painter and engraver. He was invited to
several outstanding national and international exhibitions such as the
International Triennial of Engraving, Kanagawa, Japan, the 'Triennial Graphics
Exhibition' in Tallin (Estonia), the '4 th Sapporo International Biennial' in
Japan, he 'Beijing Ex Libris International Show' in the People’s Republic of
China, the Cracow Triennial Engraving Exhibition in Poland etc.
His works were exhibeted in the 54th Venice Biennale and in
the permanent collection of Uffizi Cabinet of Drawings and Prints.
He lives and works in Ragusa, where he manages a big
engraving studio and he teaches at the
Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo.
More images of the opening - facebook Diplomatic Art Asoc
and
http://www.banatulazi.ro/casa-e-transloco-3-a-poposit-la-galeria-pygmalion-foto-video/
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