99 WORDS WITH THOMAS BRAIDA
THOMAS BRAIDA, UNTITLED, 2014, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER, CM 27 X 21 (part.)
Everything can become a medium for any type of message without any criterion, you find advertising everywhere even in the dreams. We are in a saturated world, and in this chaos, the medium-the media has lost his value as a message (McLuhan).
Fortunately, we have learned to extricate ourselves (pfff… lies) through mobile phones, tablet, TV, cinema, 3D, sex and booze.
What we thread on, I mean what we paint on a canvas, I think it has a new value almost didactic.
We return from the biblical stories on the glass walls or on the ceilings of churches, up to a cave full of wild animals painted by hands.
Thomas Braida
THE BLANK BERGAMO CONTEMPORARY ART | NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2014 | THE ARTIST OF THE MONTH
Ermete Trismegisto (Il Primandro, 1980: Roma: Editrice Atanòr)
The artist of the month is Luigi Presicce.
99 WORDS WITH MARIELLA BETTINESCHI
MARIELLA BETTINESCHI, L’ERA SUCCESSIVA, 2010, PRINT ON PLEXIGLASS, MIRROR
L’era successiva is the title of a group of works that was born in 2008 and on which I am still working. The thought that liven up this work refers to the severe economic crisis that has shocked all parameters. I imagine there will be a subsequent age in which many things will be changed. I represent this imagination with landscapes inhabited by mysterious presences, gaseous apparitions, marks left by unknown passages. In addition to these landscapes, I place female figures with a double look, provided by an extreme aution. I get back an ancient mythology, dating to 7,000 years ago: in the Mediterranean basin, female deities, with four eyes, they were ordered to protect the four cardinal points of the Earth. In this way, come full circle: after 7000 years, once again, it is necessary to devolve upon women the task of protecting the Earth.
99 WORDS WITH PASQUALE GADALETA
PASQUALE GADALETA, LO SPATRIATO, 2014, BREAD SCULPTURE ON ARTIFICIAL GRASS
“the escape in artificial paradise, in upside down worlds, in the impossible dreams of compensation of crowds of ragged and hungry modern centuries born from the not-liveability of the reality, from the vital low-dose, from the shortages (in opposition) from dietary excesses that lead to a jerking, incoherent, spasmodic interpretation of the reality”
Piero Camporesi, Il pane selvaggio
99 PAROLE CON MARIO CRESCI
MARIO CRESCI, SEGNIMIGRANTI, 2013, BLOCKS OF BLACK LAVA, ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS, GIARDINI NAXOS (TAORMINA)
SEGNIMIGRANTI [migrant signs] / Intervention on blocks of black lava present on the beach of Giardini Naxos (Taormina), Sicily, made on October 6th, 2013. It’s an intervention born from the emotion of a tragedy that saw nearly five hundred people die in the waters of Lampedusa in the same days when I was spending a peaceful period of holiday. I have marked with white tempera the black lava bodies as if they had been deposited on the beach by the waves of the sea and in five hours of uninterrupted work I saw that each sign identified a body and at the same time it was paying tribute as the flight of a seagull to the upwards, towards a spiritual dimension within a thought totally immersed in the pain of a terrible tragedy. At the end of the intervention, observing the landscape altered by the painted signs, it seemed for a moment that I have created a thought of reference to the body painting of the African world where the white marks migrate from the bodies of people in those of things. I finally photographed and filmed a series of routes between the bodies painted in a landscape momentarily transformed.