The journey
project by Alberta Piazza and Giuliana Silvestrini
"The journey" is the theme that gives the title to Alberta Square and Giuliana Silvestrini's exhibition, close and complementary in expressing themselves on this theme. The trip, especially the one away from the tourist destinations, unites these two artists who, for their own sake, have found an ideal of life that meets their need to know and experience.
Alberta Square constructs his speech mainly through dreamy images and so on the exhibited charts he represents a mixed vision technique, a sort of flashback of the journey, regardless of the medium on which it is because it is understood as a path not only physical but also psychological through the various situations that make up the experience. His works thus describe the path of images: they are imprinted in memory and become fragmented landscapes or destroyed forms and are subsequently reworked into the unconscious. Right from here the artist's hands recover them because they are represented with various materials whose processing gives the sense of the transformation that took place in time and space. In practice, the artist represents in his works the mental path of knowledge by using matter as mediator. These are abstractions that are the outward projection of his intimate world, real open forms for which the spectator is tempted to make subjective interpretations. What Alberta Square represents is therefore the journey in its accomplishment, which manifests itself in a transformation that is always in the way of what she, an experienced traveler, has always felt to have on her own and has chosen as the theme of her works. This idea of the transit of matter and mind from one state to the other is the leit motiv of Alberta Square, and we find it in each of its creations here as in any technique you use. In "TRAVERSAR", the title is an integral part of the installation consisting of a rusty metal mesh and a "true" green lawn, sometimes watered by the artist's hand, to keep the grass alive, a symbol of hope. Rusty iron, on the other hand, represents what is tiring in an attempt to change an inadequate situation while the lawn becomes the image of the transformation that has taken place, the final synthesis of the reasoning initiated by the title. The same concept is found in oxides on fabric, which Square has literally "exposed" to the weather to get changes (animal prints and excrements, iron rust, rain acidity). Here the meteorological elements have written about the basic material a history and this story is, this time, that of a state transition, a transformation: a journey, precisely.
The most instinctive, however, is the vision of the journey expressed by Giuliana Silvestrini, which gives the theme a more "committed" interpretation: its journey is, in fact, the risky one of the migrant to the land that represents for him the goal, social redemption economic. Nothing rhetoric in its bottom line but much to emotion: the migrant is symbolized in the "metallina" (the gold and silver fabric with which new arrivals have just been taken off the bar), which becomes the protagonist of a video on display, as a symbol of travel and the desire to know and grow, man-made needs. It's no coincidence: the artist has a past as an adventurous traveler, always hunting for difficult to reach places and therefore not interested in mass tourism. His own life can be identified with the constant shifts dictated by the desire for research and by an ingenious curiosity. The desire to "experiment" of Silvestrini is thus synthesized in the figure of the migrant, not in the widespread inflatable and pietistic interpretation of the miserable need of help and care but in a vision (rather than humanitarian), "humanistic" that wants a symbol of knowledge. The metal then becomes, in the artist's imagination, a body that has embarked on a journey towards its own realization as an individual, with all the rights that lie to him and the possibility to realize his dreams. Also work in acrylic and bitumen
represents immigrant figures, this time obtained by reworking a repertoire photo. But here the choice tells us something more than the artist. The material comes from the earth, from its very own gut, which are as deep as Giuliana Silvestrini's way of expressing the emotions of life. On the same line are the other cards on display, "Impronte" of disused clothes on sheets and sheets, traces of the humanity that they wear and use to touch them with their own body and make them unique, individually identifiable. It's a way of "feeling" in leather, that of Silvestrini, which makes you a passionate, sincere and impulsive artist, able to retain the infantile amazement in discovering the world.
Critical text by Gloria Zarletti
I know the heavens exploding in flashes, and the trumpets / jams
and the currents: I know the evening and the sunrise
exalted like a flock of doves, and sometimes I saw it
what man believes to see!
(Arthur Rimbaud)
Statement
Alberta Piazza and Giuliana Silvestrini are two artists who work together by putting into practice their previous abilities, the fruits of their artistic research, poetics and existential choices. In this project they present the theme of travel in its broadest meaning, research of knowledge, but also journey of life, as the birth itself.
Journey as a transformation, path of physical and mental change, discovery, separation, memory, including in such respects the dramatic migratory phenomenon of man in our day.
For Alberta Piazza, the travel experience involves being thrown away from the starting place that is inhabited to get to somewhere else and then heading towards the unhealthy.
The unknown as the need for the unconscious to get acquainted with the wider world, such as spaces re-found in its own external-internal symbolic geography. So the journey as a shuffling of parts of one's own identity to reconfigure it with new experiences, as a transformative object that can favor a change in the ego (Leed).
His works are focused on the horizons of works to explore the limited but divisive continuity of time. Painting and installation interweave textures and subjective lines that knit and interrupt as in the spaces-observation and memory spaces.
The journey of Giuliana Silvestrini.
The journey, understood as the birth of man, separation, memory, migration, is developed through the elaboration of a video and paintings on canvas and paper.
Bitumen is used in works such as bonding to earth; gold and silver, which almost make "pictorial" icons, reveal a profound need for spirituality. Blue represents the sea, an idea of "an over" where the imagination, hopes, fear, and the curiosity of the new one mingle with each other.
Impressions and traces of clothing are memory of us, of our bodies, maps of our identity, and stratify one over the other, outlining other maps, itineraries, and other stories.
Contacts:
giuliana.silvestrini@libero.it;
website: www.siscia.it; www.premioceleste.it.
Cell: 347554460
Alberta Piazza
Contacts:
al.berta-a@libero.it
www.albertapiazza.it
Cell: 3409281330