Exhibition: CORPOLOGIES II

Artists: Neno Belchev, Johannes C. Gerard, Werther Germondari, Draga Jovanovic, Bill Pacer, Adrian Pablo Rosati, Rowan Romeiro, Austin Sane, Ulla Žibert.

Place: Ospizio Giovani Artisti

Address:  via Cernaia 15 - Roma, Italy

Opening:  Monday 8th of February 2021, h18 (until h20.30)

Period:  8 - 19 February 2021

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

The human body is once again the protagonist in this exhibition, a follow-up of the previous one, in which it is also provocatively analyzed in its infinite possibilities of social, psychological and naturally aesthetic interaction, through the works of nine artists, coming as always from the OGA Collection.

Neno Belchev (Varna, Bulgaria, 1971). Graduated from the National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria. Belchev works as video artist and filmmaker as well as in the fields of performance, installation, sculpture, new media and independent curator. Neno has participated in a wide range of solo and group, national and international exhibitions. His task as an artist is to look through the cover of things in their real essence. To provoke the people to see how of front of their own eyes their own world is changing. He uses very often humour, beside that in the other hand I take my art very seriously.

Johannes C. Gerard (Cologne, Germany, 1959). Dutch/german artist, he studied at School of Printmaking and Design, Cologne, Germany and at Dun Laogharie School of Art and Design, Dublin. During his art career lived and worked among others in Ireland, Spain, Argentina, Taiwan. Currently lives in Berlin and The Hague (NL). Since 1981 participation in exhibitions, projects, video/film world festivals. In 2007 photography, installation, printmaking became main disciplines. In 2012 first videoinstallations. In 2014 first videofilms. At the same time became interested in performance arts.

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 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 founded the Ospizio Giovani Artisti.

Draga Jovanovic (Cacak, Serbia, 1977) is a contemporary artist that is based in Toronto, Canada. She completed her Bachelor’s degree, faculty of drawing, painting, sculpture and graphics in 1999 at the University of Novi Sad Academy of Fine Arts, Serbia. On completion, she went to Germany where she got her Postgraduate Masters degree at Kusthochschule Kassel (University of Kassel, Germany). In her work, through short experiment movies and photography, she has been dealing with identity and its very diverse and unstable nature.

Bill Pacer (Baltimora, USA, 1949). Bill Pacer is a mature, open minded, and versatile producer, writer and SAG/AFTRA actor. In addition, he has worked as a casting director and location scout. Bill has an unlimited perspective of life, and savors every breath and breathes boldly. Will Go Far, LLC, which Bill co-owns with LaDonna Allison, epitomizes Bill's exciting reality as they have solo shows about Ben Franklin, Mrs. Ben Franklin, and others. And Will Go Far goes farther than simply G-rated shows. They strive to eschew social stigmas and question artificial barriers.

Adrian Pablo Rosati (Cordoba, Argentina, 1966) Italian-Argentinean photographer and visual artist, currently resides in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. The video and the photos in the exhibition were made in the quarantine period due to the pandemic caused by Covid-19: “It is a visual symphonic poem that deals with the melancholy that solitude and confinement produces. "Between the edge of my bed and the floor, there is an abyss, an unexplored place that I climb every day ...".

Rowan Romeiro (Florianopolis, Brazil, 1995). Graduated from the University of Pelotas (Brazil), she is a photographer, director and curator. She prefers analog photography, but has also made experimental short films. “I'm interested in creating works that can tell people about the reality I'm living in and bring people to my daydream world”. About her photographic work in the exhibitions she said: “A brief photographic journey around my body, my nakedness, my sexuality and myself”.

Austin Sane (Aledo, IL, USA, 1993) is a Midwest filmmaker and photographer. He specializes in the surreal and horror genre. “My goal when it comes to art is to create doors to realities not yet imagined. I will do that by being unapologetic and true with each and every one of my projects”. And about the works in the exhibition he say that they are “a surreal look into the life of a man on the edge. His mind is cracking and madness is seeping through”.

Ulla Žibert (Trbovlje, Slovenia, 1988). In 2015 she gratuated in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. While her previous artistic imput gravitated mainly around collaborations with other artists, in 2017 she started exhibiting her solo work with the first one being in Piran/Slovenia at the 52th International painting event EX-TEMPORE, where she won the 1st prize. “My main focus is to question the everyday practices and make invisible visible. To challenge the viewer into new ways of seeing, thinking and perceiving the structures of thought, and ways of existence”.