Bodyologies XI

PRESS RELEASE

Exhibition: BODYOLOGIES XI

Artists:    Antonella Albani, Paola Alviano Glaviano, Salvatore Attanasio Avitabile, Petra Brnardic, Werther Germondari, Divya Vinod Gilatar, Michael Knoten, Gulia Lusikova, Florindo Rilli.

Place: Ospizio Giovani Artisti, via Cernaia 15 - Roma - Italy

Opening:  Saturday 24th of October 2026, h17.30 (until h20)

Period:  24 October - 5th November 2026

Opening time:  by appointment only, writing to wgermondari@mac.com

Tenth exhibition on the theme of the body, within the (S)exhibitions, analyzed once again in its infinite possibilities of social, psychological and naturally aesthetic interaction, through the works of nine international artists, part as always of the OGA Collection.

Antonella Albani (Roma, Italy, 1972). After graduating in Applied Arts with a specialization in "Artistic Photography" and "Advertising Graphics", she graduated with honors in "History of Modern Art" at La Sapienza University, with a thesis on Raphael's legacy in Western painting. Her works tell of the expectation of something that will never happen. The action of her characters moves around a suspension, the latter are often immobile, crystallized. It is a photograph tinged with metaphysics and at times ironic surreality, which often denounces a loneliness, especially of the female figure.

Salvatore Attanasio Avitable (Plan of Sorrento, Italy, 1972). Artist for three generations, his artistic destiny is already marked in the first months of his life! He will later remember an episode that happened when he was in his white cradle: his gaze rests on a painting by the painter's aunt, and he recognizes in the figures a very sad motherhood, the painted face of the mother is bitter, the child seems dead, the two figures sink into a black backdrop, impressed Salvatore reacts in the only way he knows, and cries in fear. From that moment on, art enters his life and will never leave him again.

Petra Brnardic (Zagreb, Croatia, 1978) Graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2004, she is working on short experimental movies for several years, and she usually use collage technique and surreal, vivid, psychedelic imagery inspired by silent movie era, underground and cult movies mostly from the 60s-early 80s, horror and camp aesthetics and other forms of arts. “My cinema is visual poetry, often brutal, macabric, hallucinant and full of polarities, like sex and death or good versus evil, just like the deepest caves of human psyche and ocean of subconsciousness”. 

Werther Germondari (Rimini, Italy, 1963) Visual artist, performer and filmmaker. Interested in innovative experimental dynamics that are neo-conceptual and situational, characterized by a taste for the ironic and surreal, Germondari has experimented for 40 years through many different expressive media (painting, installations, photography, film, videos,  live performance). Germondari's works have also been shown in solo exhibitions where he focuses on hidden elements highlighted in styles. In 2013 he founded the OGA.

Divya Vinod Gilatar (1991, Mumbai, India) is a UK-based contemporary artist, writer and educator, and founder of The Queendom Studio. Her practice explores Shakti, sacred geometry, feminine embodiment, spirituality and transformation through contemporary visual storytelling. Her work has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, Asia and the United States, including her Chakra Mandala and Shakti in Motion series.

Paola Alviano Glaviano (Roma, Italy, 1962) she graduated in 1980 from the I Liceo Artistico in Via di Ripetta; later, while attending the faculty of Architecture and the Scuola Libera del Nudo, she deepened her interest in the human body, which will play a significant role in her career as a painter. The constant search for new techniques evolves quickly, from the brush to the spatula, from color to black and white and then back to polychromy and again to monochrome with the use of bitumen. From jute canvas and subsequently to cardboard, which represents her current phase.

Micheal Knoten (Fratiskovy Lazne, Czech Republic, 1984) works as a laborer in metal production. He has devoted himself to artistic creation since childhood. "In the course of my life, inspired by my surroundings, I began a sincerely misanthropic artistic path, exploring the dark sides of the human soul." For more than ten years, he has devoted himself to digital photography and graphic design, following the principles of pictorialism. He has had many solo exhibitions, and has many audiovisual collaborations for extreme metal bands to his credit.

Gulia Lusikova (Minsk, Belarus, 1967) is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Minsk. After an intense artistic activity in the former Soviet Union, where Gulia was a member of the avant-garde group BLO in Minsk and exhibited several times at the St. Petersburg gallery Pushkinskaya 10. He then participated in exhibitions in France and Germany. He moved to Rome in 1993 and began collaborating with the Pio Monti, Nuova Pesa and Matteo Boetti Galleries and with various critics. In conjunction with his daughter Karolina, he participated in the 14th Quadriennale in Rome.

Florindo Rilli (Cagli, Italy, 1962) starts in the 90s his photographic research. Concentrating on the body, he enjoys playing with it and making it so versatile that most of the time it is both subject and object of representation. Interesting is also the relationship that manages to create with contemporary dance and theater in general. Other experiences come when she faces the perverse world of fetish, often adopting the technique of bondage to fragment the body and make it more explorable. Numerous participations in solo and group exhibitions.