Artists: Antonella Albani, Paola Alviano Glaviano, Nicola Bertoglio, Petra Brnardic, Federico Cianferoni, Werther Germondari, Gulia Lusikova, Silvia Marcantoni Taddei, Florindo Rilli.

Period: 21 October - 7 November 2024

Opening time: the days after the inauguration by appointment only

Ninth 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.

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.

Nicola Bertoglio (Cremona, 1974) is an Italian artist, photographer and civil rights activist born in Cremona in 1974. His artistic research, which spans more than ten years, focuses on smartphone photography, commonly known as "iphoneography". Over the years he has developed his own artistic language, composed of montages of various images, taken only with a smartphone and always in square format. His works have been exhibited in many cities in Italy and abroad, and some of them are present in renowned public institutions and private collections.

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 Ospizio Giovani Artisti.

Federico Cianferoni (Radda in Chianti, Italy, 1989) lives and works in Rome. “Unless you have a boyish body, you are called female since you are a child. You look like a female because you are not like the others, because you play with dolls, because you have blond and curly hair, because you don’t swear at 4 years old, because you don’t like playing soccer. Stereotypes? No, the harsh reality. Unless you have a male body, you are not received. You are not normal. You are different. Luckily we are different, luckily we are not normal. Luckily dicks fly and we grow moustaches!”

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.

Silvia Marcantoni Taddei (Genova, Italy, 1994) will turn 30 on the same day of Cicciolina, November 26. Silvia has launched AnimaeNoctis multimedia duo in 2019, together with their husband Massimo Sannelli (1973). Silvia's filmmaking, photography, music, performance and pornology are their biography.

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.