Artists: David Cash, Werther Germondari, Makis Kiriakopoulos, Bruno Mazzocchi, Hyoyu Nam, Rita Soccio.

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

On the occasion of the solstice, the Ospizio Giovani Artisti offers a 'Summer Collection', with the mentally refreshing works of six international artists, all as always coming from the OGA Collection.

David Cash (Toronto, Canada, 1997) is a director, photographer and creative based in Toronto best known for his work running video for Pride Toronto, with a passion for developing innovative and creative content. David attempts to take inspiration from the extremities of counterculture, and combine and commercialize these ideas to create clean, sleek, viral content that is prime for public consumption. His recent self produced photographic gallery showing "RED" nearly sold out in a week and was deemed one of the "top 10 Art shows of the summer in Toronto” by BlogTO.

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, Werther Germondari has experimented for 35 years through many different expressive media (from painting to installations, photography to film, videos to live performance). Germondari's works have also been shown in solo exhibitions where he focuses on hidden elements highlighted in styles. In 2013 he created the Ospizio Giovani Artisti.

Makis Kyriakopoulos (Patras, Greece, 1975) His work is predominantly in Digital Arts. He held several solo and group shows in Greece and abroad. The narrative structure of the work screened in this exhibition conveys the exploration and the perception of memory in a web of temporal dream states. Fragmented thoughts of annihilation and how it affects us by intensifying the inevitable physical process of decay, subverting the circular narrative structure, regardless the “system”, in a way that leads us from the starting point to our final state in an existential entropy.

Bruno Mazzocchi (Dijon, France, 1977) is a french shortfilm director living and working in Pantin, near Paris. After studying arts and cinematography at the University of Metz, he started to work as screenwriter and directed his first short film ‘Flesh’ in 2015. His latest movie, 'Moonchild', screened in this OGA exhibition, has been selected at the Short Film Corner of the 71st Cannes International Film Festival (2018). It tells about the melancholic space odyssey of a daydreamer.

Hyoju Nam (Seoul, South Korea, 1983). Media artist, she entered the world of pure media video artists in earnest and has been working on international exhibition activities. Through the digital genre painting “Night” series, which vividly drew and described contemporaries’ various behaviors or customs that stretch out in various times and spaces of the modern downtown, she displays creative media arts every year. Through her distinct visual speech and style as above, she would trace and thoroughly investigate contemporaries’ non-existent actions and movements.

Rita Soccio (Pescara, Italy, 1971). Graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata, his artistic research related to social issues and uses different media. It is firmly convinced that in a historic moment of change like the present one the time has come for the artists to recover their own ethics, rather than focusing exclusively on the concept of aesthetics and at the same time, with the strength of their work, reaffirming the importance of role of the artist, as a beacon that can awaken the dormant and distracted consciences of the community.