At the Fruit Market in the center of Valeggio, a classic Art Deco style building in 1938 abandoned for years, on display, before it is restored or dismantled, from September 23 to October 16 next, in the meantime / Meanwhile, by Lucio Pozzi, artist of the original group of PS1, New York school, which in 1975 became the first alternative art space.
The peeling walls, the remnants of plaster and decor of the long history of the property, enter into dialogue with the works of some artists, very different, scattered into the large room.
Instead of a common theme, will connect them to the void that surrounds them and the indefinable difference that distinguishes them.
Giacinto Cerone participate, Arthur Duff, Bruna Esposito, Sara Faccin, Andrew Sheets, Raffaella Formenti, Armida Gandini, Jeff Hendricks, James Hyde, Alison Knowles, David Lindberg, Emil Lukas, Hector Mamet, Philip Manzini, Paolo Masi, Albano Morandi, Giovanni Morbin, Lucia Pescador, Giordano Pozzi Luca Pozzi, Lucio Pozzi, Roberto Pugliese, Giovanni Rizzoli, Fabio Sandri, Lorenza Sannai, Nida Simaokrot, Fulvio Testa, Blair Thurman.
In modern times, people seem to bring himself to associate art works in their definitions, programs or statements prepared in order to distinguish it from the past, even recently, is the mass of arts events around us. Less art performs functions established and more it seems to squirm in order to legitimize their own events in packages that limit.
Often, the excuse used are the formulas of the novelty or originality, or the artist felt compelled to decipher the reasons for the viewer of his work, what he believes to be its subject or content. Some rare times, the enunciation of the ulterior motives underlying the work is really necessary to increase the enjoyment, but often it is not 'that limit the creative contribution of the spectator, the artist and or channeling the agenda of the interpreter.
Lucio Pozzi believes that art is finally freed from the addiction which had been subjugated for centuries. His new freedom frightens many. In a panic to find themselves with no hooks on which there is mutual agreement, many people do invent constraints that echo the ancient lost consensus. Even the drive to get rid of old conformism, in the vanguard of the twentieth century and its followers today, is found mummified in parasitic formulas.
This shows the curator tries to avoid the pitfalls of 'explanation' acute infection, the virus that suppresses the modern art. Try to enable the highest degree and with modesty 'and there being a' work.
The various perspectives presented here are woven and memories in the immense variety of materials, processes and ideas that each author or the author chooses as the field in which to exercise his imagination and his intellect.
Lucio Pozzi want the sense of the exhibition proves, even to himself, only after it has been built.
The artist of our time in perennial and intermittent oscillation is only. It is not lonely, because it interacts with others who feel sympathy for the intellectual, but it is only because only handles its own decisions without reference sure, shared by the community. Even those who look or listen to it alone, bewildered by the multiplicity of horizons that is in art. Lucio Pozzi This is a big step forward in the global artistic consciousness. You can not lose sight of the various contexts within which the discourse of art is, but the loneliness of people who engage in it, makes it alive, like never before, the individual creativity of all who are interested in art.
"When I look, I follow a simple principle: if after all the factors enumerated in a work that I recognize nothing remains that escapes me completely, then I lose interest," said the curator, in the selection of works to be exhibited has decided to rely to subjective intuition, focused on this place and this gathering of works. "I entrust myself to feel affinity with the art of artists I've seen around and they have piqued my attention, even with the art of friends, relatives and acquaintances, some of which I included because I feel the importance in this specific context. There is also my work, "he says.
The title implies the presence Meanwhile, between a before and an after. The Fruit Market of obsolete Valeggio is full of layers. Placed in a place like this, works of art are on the one hand incontrovertible being where they are located, on the other hand changes. Wherever they are, but their addition changes the environment, it also absorbs the place of its forms, lights, shadows and history.
Meanwhile indicates transience. Not all the works presented here were made specifically for this site, some were born years ago, but put in this context suggests that the transition to longer term. Beneath all the noise that grows around the controversial contemporary art, beyond the arbitrary and competitive certainty about the quality of this or that form of art, Lucio Pozzi and melancholic feel an exhilarating sense of insecurity in our artistic culture: hilarious, because the oriented towards a permanent warning to exercise caution in a way that can not take anything for granted, because it opposes the permanent melancholy confirmation of the innate frailty of life, hope of eternal life.
This building is so steeped in history and art that it is now temporarily placed, are entities in transition.
"A well-articulated attracts me the most precarious of final solutions increasingly sought after by modern and always intended either to collapse or fossilized. I am fascinated by the symbiosis between art work and place of exposure, that it is the white cube or a local retired. I fascinated by this as I am seduced by the symbiosis between the person who made it and the viewer. Between the two formed a contract, an unbearable tension which comes from the intensity of the exchange, the gaze inevitably related to the time. Although rooted in lattice of its history and its terms of reference, the work falls more then that in all the cages in which both artist and the viewer then try to fence. The works presented here arise from extremely varied personal and social narratives I feel that here is not my job to decipher, so as not to lock to start an open dialogue. They contain different levels of accessibility and it will be interesting to hear the buzz of the comments they involve contradictory. In certain of these themes will recognize the most obvious, in others the issues are hidden. Some visitors will feel disappointed, while other stimuli to their deep feelings and thoughts. There are constructions and projections, and even sounds. Even the paint is applied by hand on flat surface and rectangular, eternal and often controversial basis for comparison of 'modern art, is here presented in two forms one of the most abused, the geometry and the landscape, just because you feel rediscovered as fertile fields of fresh creativity after their apparent exhaustion "Lucio Pozzi.
