CONTEMPORARY LOCUS

Davide Bertocchi, Heimo Zobernig
Porta Sant’Alessandro
a cura di | curated by Paola Tognon

28 marzo – 24 maggio | 28 March – 24 May 2015
Largo Colle Aperto 6, Bergamo (Italy)

contemporary locus 7 by night
visite notturne | night visits
venerdì 24 aprile | Friday 24 April
sabato 2 maggio | Saturday 2 May
sabato 23 maggio | Saturday 23 May
h 21.30 | h 9.30pm
apertura speciale | special opening
venerdì 1 maggio | Friday 1 May
info@contemporarylocus.it +39 3497903295

Esperienza d’artista | Artist’s experience
LABoratorio per bambini | Children LAB
imparare attraverso l’arte | learn through art

sabato 16 maggio | Saturday 16 May
h 10-12 | h 10am-12pm
sabato 23 maggio | Saturday 23 May
h 15-17 | h 3pm-5pm
info@contemporarylocus.it +39 3400962814

Sound the door
performance
Davide Bertocchi and Federico Truzzi
Porta Sant’Alessandro, Bergamo

sabato 16 maggio | Saturday 16 May
h 10.30-11.30 | h 10.30am-11.30pm
in occasione di | during ARTDATE

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orari d’apertura: sab. – dom. 9-13; 15-19
opening hours: Sat. – Sun. 9am-1pm; 3pm-7pm
visite guidate: sab. – dom. tutto il giorno, lun. – ven. su appuntamento
guided visits: Sat. – Sun. all day long
Mon. – Fri. by appointment
Ingresso gratuito | free admission

99 cubi bianchi

Atti creativi in giardino

Curated by Salvatore Falci, Eva Marisaldi, Liliana Moro and the students of Fine Arts Academy G. Carrara

Friday 24 April 2015 – h. 10 am- 5 pm

Giardino dell’Accademia di belle arti G. Carrara

p.zza G. Carrara, 82/2 – Bergamo

99 WORDS WITH DIEGO MARCON

DIEGO MARCON, TRIPTYCH. THE NAP, 2014, VINILE ADESIVO MONOMETRICO PRESPAZIATO NERO, DIMENSIONI VARIABILI. VEDUTA DELL’INSTALLAZIONE, VENTURA XV, MILANO.
Courtesy l’artista. Photo: Andrea Rossetti

(A male voice)
All the cities have been bombed, all the buildings burnt.
Every single wall has been razed to the ground, those of façades and porches, arcades and halls.

Hospitals have been destroyed, along with schools and churches
(slowly) malls, stadiums, cinemas, museums.
Every park and square has been destroyed too, playgrounds set on fire. The seesaws and the benches are nothing but ash – the statues have been dismembered and each piece reduced to smithereens.
Nothing remains of the bars and their summer chairs, of the grocers or any other shops: no more steamed up café windows along the winter streets, no more cups for those coffee machines.

All the houses have been bombed, collapsing into clouds of dust, from the roof right down to the garage.
Each room torn apart (a voice of a little girl, singing faintly) one after the other: (back to the male voice, slowly) living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms.
Nothing more than the ashes of desks and drawers, of sofas and carpets, ovens and knives, towels and sheets.
All at the mercy of a gust of wind – nothing else.

All the fathers are dead, together with hundreds of the mothers – the last are dying somewhere faraway – (a voice of a little girl, singing faintly again) we can’t see, we can’t see. (Back to the male voice) a lot of young people have died too, along with their brothers and sisters.

But I couldn’t care less about all this because none of it has ever been mine.

Diego Marcon, “Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation (A Script for an Introduction)”, in Diego Marcon, A script for Dick, Cura.books, Roma, 2014, p.15

99 PAROLE CON ALICE GUARESCHI

ALICE GUARESCHI, SENZA TITOLO (VIRGOLETTE), 2014, ARGILLA, CM 13 X 7

– I think that, basically, it probably comes out of the same concerns: isolated incidents
in space and time, for one.
– Isolated incidents? What do you mean exactly?

(Frammento di conversazione tra Robert Barry e René Denizot, Parigi 1980)

BERGAMO FILM MEETING
33rd Edition / 7-15 March 2015

On the occasion of its 33rd edition (7-15 March 2015), Bergamo Film Meeting-International Film Festival will present an incredibly rich and varied programme, featuring about 120 films of national and international production.
Bergamo Film Meeting will present a full-length film competition section, along with documentaries, retrospectives, previews, masterpieces and tributes to legends of the past, recent productions, art exhibitions and installations, special events for schools, animation films, labs and workshops, lectures, Q&As with filmmakers, and much more.
A precious opportunity to meet people, to network with film professionals, to research cinema, and – last but not least – to have fun, Bergamo Film Meeting is among the most awaited cultural initiatives in town and a crucial event in the Italian Festival calendar.

Bergamo Film Meeting was the recipient of two prizes at Festival of Festivals, organised by the national cultural event association, which once again proves the Festival’s commitment to innovation and cultural change: BFM won the Best Sponsorship/Partnership Award, awarded to a project in collaboration with Elav Independent Brewery, and the Best Book/Catalogue Award.

BERGAMO FILM MEETING

Via Pignolo, 123
24121 Bergamo
Italy
Tel. +39 035 363087

info@bergamofilmmeeting.it

www.bergamofilmmeeting.it

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Davide Bertocchi, Heimo Zobernig
Porta Sant’Alessandro, Bergamo (Italy)
curated by Paola Tognon

28 March – 24 May 2015

Davide Bertocchi and Heimo Zobernig are the artists whose works take the form of the seventh
contemporary locus. The site they set out to reveal is Porta Sant’Alessandro, one of the city gates into Bergamo Alta, set in the imposing old city walls built under the Venetian Republic. Construction of the gate began in 1560 over the remains of an early Christian basilica once dedicated to Bergamo’s patron saint. The gate’s original architecture remains intact and today it provides a point of access to the heart of the medieval city.
The interventions of the two artists engage the large enclosed space above the gateway itself, currently closed to the public. Individually, the two installations bring together light, form and sound to create new ways in which space and the community can interact.

Davide Bertocchi (Modena, 1969) trained in Bologna before moving on in the ‘90s to Milan, where he joined the city’s dynamic art scene. He then moved to Paris, where he now lives and works. He has taken part in the Internship Program at MoMa PS1 and in “Le Pavillon” residency program at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
Heimo Zobernig (Mauthen, Carinthia, 1958) lives and works in Vienna. He participated in many international exhibitions including Documenta X and the 53th Venice Biennale. His work covers a vast field: design, painting, sculpture and installation . He will be representing Austria at the Venice Biennale 2015.

THE BLANK BERGAMO CONTEMPORARY ART | 99 WORDS WITH ALICE RONCHI
ALICE RONCHI, ALICE, 2012, UMBRELLAS AND STEEL TUBES, DIMENSIONS VARIABLE

Daniele Perra: How to match the vitality, the convertibility and mobility of nature with the immobility of sculpture?

Alice Ronchi: The sculpture can be very dynamic if you think about it in terms of vision. Sculpture is the moment that comes before, and especially, is what happens later; it is the next time you will see an upside down umbrella under the wind and you’ll see a mushroom, or a flower or whatever it evokes you.
This is the sculpture in my work, a materialized vision that starts to be a vision again.
To me it represents one of the possibilities that has been given to an object or to a material to transform itself.

* The text was written by Alice Ronchi in occasion of an interview conducted by Daniele Perra for Artribune. This question and answer has never been published.

ACCADEMY OF FINE ART G. CARRARA IN BERGAMO
GROUP EXHIBITION OF THE STUDENTS

Opening: 4 February 2015 6.00pm/10.00pm

Opening hours:
5 February 2015 9.00am/5.00pm
6 February 2015 9.00am/5.00pm

Accademia di Belle Arti G. Carrara

Piazza G. Carrara, 82/d – Bergamo
tel 035.399563
segreteria@accademiabellearti.bg.it
www.accademiabellearti.bg.it

Lavorare Stanca

Corinna Gosmaro

Alessia Xausa

17/01/2015 – 14/03/2015

Opening: Sabato 17 Gennaio 2015 / January, 17^th 2015 – h.18.30.

Orari di apertura / Opening hours: Martedì / Tuesday – Sabato / Saturday h.14:00-19:00.

Thomas Brambilla
Via Casalino 25
24121 Bergamo, Italia
Ph: +39 035 247418
www.thomasbrambilla.com
info@thomasbrambilla.com

Thomas Brambilla Gallery is glad to announce the opening of the exhibition Lavorare Stanca with Corinna Gosmaro and Alessia Xausa, on Saturday January 17^th, 2015 at 18:30.

A blunt and free, rhythmic, not obsessive cadence expanded in the time of execution by overlapping.

A daily and liberating practice, a painting insistently repeated, because “repetition is a pledge of sincerity”, as Cesare Pavese wrote.

Corinna Gosmaro and Alessia Xausa circumscribe their works around fundamental reasons that do not care about expanding but about concentrating; style becomes cadence, a biographical form of their own relationship with the canvas, physical work of overlapping, rubbing against a support, impregnating.

It is a physical work that obeys the body, “It is not made of psychological or natural realism, but it is made of an independent design of events, created with a style that is the reality of who is telling it, the narrator is the only irreplaceable character”, quoting Pavese’s Il mestiere di vivere.

The reference to the Piedmontese writer is offered by a genuine and youthful enthusiasm towards a lyrical-realistic poetics, or towards the union of culture – committed to politics and society – with vivid and tragic emotions. However, it is also referred to the solid and outdated concept of art as work – hard and daily work actually. It is a work which commits the resources of body and intimacy.

Eduardo De Filippo said: “To do good theater it is necessary to make life difficult for the actor.” Pavese was a real master in creating existential traps, well told and very well lived too.

For these two actresses difficulties have to be inside the creation of the work, inside the material work of their paintings.

Lavorare Stanca – Hard work is exhausting, and this physical fatigue, this liberating practice, puts art in the center of everyone’s destiny. So this is an art that present itself as a registration of the artist’s presence, without quotes or references: it is something physical, irreplaceable and, therefore, authentic. The work of art is the centre of artistic experience.

The works of Alessia Xausa are the result of a superposition of layers, made of color and graphite. The fluidity of the color is mixed with the pencil, creating shades and tones of different brightness, integrated with the gestural and vibrant sign of pencil and pastel. Working on the surface, the artist widens white holes that add up, overlap and divide each other with grays and blacks. In her works the artist uses raw canvases because of the quality of this material: without any waterproofing preparation, it absorbs and retains the color. These large canvases are like sheets, or “shrouds” where color is a track permeating the fabric. Alessia paints by “impregnation”, adding white on white, often coloring the raw canvas with dirty water only, that absorbs graphite from canvas themselves, forcing her to go over and over again on the color to get the desired effect.

Corinna Gosmaro often paints on industrial filters on which the brush cannot freely flow: she uses rags and sponges to transfer the color in the meshed surface that often breaks and tears. The filter is a plastic material that resists her painting and her body too. The artist widens the color, making it “open mouthed”. In Corinna Gosmaro’s works, color is dragged into landscapes where the working space represents the time of execution: a place of both perception and projection of the artist’s mind.

The painting of both artists is an individual and authentic moment which however expands beyond the subject. It is a visual addition of every image recorded by their eyes and in the meantime a story of emotions they have in common, linked to shared time and space. There is no biography or moralism in the content, but an art going back to its fundamentals: art is at work.

Corinna Gosmaro

Nata nel 1987 a Savigliano, vive e lavora a Torino. / Born in 1987 in Savigliano, Italy, where he lives and works. Tra le principali mostre personali e collettive / Solo and group exhibitions include: Funzione Continua, Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bergamo, Italy (with Domenico Bianchi, Dadamaino, Raoul De Keyser, Carlos Garaicoa, Ron Gorchov, Alessia Xausa); Sphères, Thomas Brambilla Gallery / Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, Boissy-Le-Chàtel, France; To be continued, Raffaella De Chirico Contemporary Art, Turin; TO_SH TORINO SHANGHAI. Dialoghi d’arte, Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Turin; I-SOLA, Raffaella De Chirico Contemporary Art, Turin (solo); Project Room, IGAV, Castiglia di Saluzzo (solo); November. Artists’ hot period, Turin; You and whose army?, curated by Spazio Ferramenta, Turin (solo); Scogliere, Academy of Fine Arts, Turin; Boetti Fahrenheit 2011, Turin.

Alessia Xausa

Nata nel 1991 a Torino, dove vive e lavora. / Born in 1991 in Turin (Italy), where she lives and works. Tra le principali mostre personali e collettive / Solo and group exhibitions include: Studiolo, The Best Of Italian Youth, Museo Pinacoteca San Francesco, Repubblica San Marino; Sphères, Galleria Continua/Les Moulins, Boissy-Le-Chàtel, France; Funzione continua, Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bergamo, Italy (with Domenico Bianchi, Dadamaino, Raoul De Keyser, Carlos Garaicoa, Ron Gorchov, Corinna Gosmaro); Too big or not too big, Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bergamo, Italy (with William Anastasi, Dario Beatovic, Dove Bradshaw, Marco Cingolani, Tom Friedman, Oscar Giaconia, Thomas Helbig, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Erik Saglia); Sguardi Luminosi, Motorvillage, Turin, Italy.