Photographies by Dario Guerini, video-installation by Claudia Pippo and Emanuela Terzi.

The Blank ArtDate event.

A photographic “trip” made by Dario Guerini between seduction and
ambiguous sensuality in a small Milanese theatre and a video-installation
made by Claudia Pippo and Emanuela Terzi about the duplicity and the
emotional deceit.

Call for application for a residence at Rifugio Curò curated by Francesco Pedrini.
Applications within 13 May 2016 at www.giovani.bg.it

FASCINATURA
by Roberto Funetta

Opening: Friday 1 April, h. 7.00 pm

ART UP 4/16
curated by Enrico De Pascale

Cosimo Terlizzi (Bitonto 1973)
La benedizione degli animali
Italy 2013
video, 7’41”
Banca Popolare of Bergamo Collection

Every second Saturday of the month, ALT opens its collection to the public.

Presentation by Martina Corgnati

Curated by Angelo Piazzoli and Paola Silvia Ubiali

Introduced by Roberto Mutti at the presence of the artist

With Stefano Covri

In a present,
that has separated from its cultural past, politics are separate from the truth and religion is separate from god.
In a culture of totalized unconcealment forced by digital media, a vacuum of meaning has established, in which any kind of cultural representation becomes increasingly suspect.

Not all that long ago, art seemed to touch on a profound mystery.
The substitution of a metaphor of deepness by the figure of an all embracing network gives rise to the question, what shape that mystery has taken on?

In Thomas Helbigs recent works, immaterial traces of jewelry, decorative chains, rosaries and cosmic motifs light up against the dark background of the medium, much like in photograms.
Helbig uses colourful stage fabrics as carrier material.
In contrast to a canvas, the surface swallows the light that hits it, or reflects it as a soft gleam.

Its deceptive backlighting, in which the negative forms take shape, are owed to the paint mist left by
previous spraying activity.

The thing itself has disappeared; what viewers perceive is an afterglow.
This reversal of painting acts as a form of trickery, and thus Helbig raises the medium’s question of presentation and representation in a hybrid play of material and colour application.