Intimate Spaces
Artists:
Pinuccia Nicolosi, Rosaspina Buscarino Canesburi, Graziano Cuberli, Clara Scarampella, Isa Di Battista Gorini, Doris Wyman
Organization and coordination
D’Ars – IEP International Exhibition Projects
Via Sant’Agnese 3, 20123 Milano, Italy.
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Exhibition curated by/Mostra a cura di Stefania Carrozzini
Cover/Copertina: foto di Stefania Carrozzini
Lay out/Impaginazione catalogo: Stefania Carrozzini
Printed in Italy/Stampato in Italia: Grafiche Dehò- Milano, 2006
Artists
Alberto Bovio, Paolo Cavinato, Gabriella Ceccherini, Pino Cimenti, Marcello Diotallevi. Giuliana Malanca, Marrius, Giampaolo Osele, Rosa Prizzi, Marco Pucci, Adalgisa Romano, Enza Santoro
Italy – Milan – New York – Beijing
Our intimate spaces are the most important and precious things we have. I’m not talking just about physical space. I mean mental spaces, spiritual spaces, the space of our minds. The privacy in our contemporary life is threatened because in many ways, everybody wants to control us, and one of the most effective way to achieve this, is by using the media. Escaping is very difficult.
Our society is based on a system of profit centered values, and there is no space or time to bring us out of it. We run, run, and run to get something, but eventually we want more, more and more, never satisfied. Our intimate space has no price; it is free, but yet, extremely hard to reach.
Time is the gold in our lives. When we are in our intimate space, in our shelter, it means we get our time. The creativeness of the artists will answer to this situation in terms of beauty. Because through beauty, through real life, you can discover that you belong to yourself and so you reach your time and intimate space. In your intimate space you can think, smile, rest, share love and words, and, finally you can breathe. The exhibition reflects upon the intimate space operating on the border between visible and invisible, public and private sphere, including the importance of the perceptive-sensory aspects. The artists explore such intimate spaces as the site where the individual perceives his own body. Reflecting on intimate thoughts, intimate atmospheres, near, close, warm spaces, intimate knowledge, helps us to amplify all aspects of our imagination. The aesthetic and visual elements are used to define experiences and emotions, in order to open up to the idea behind the works. This is the goal of the exhibition: putting on the table a question in whole it complexity as a topical subject, so that it can be reconsidered.
Work of art is a space for contemplation, a space that create a view into reality.
It is also a frame, or beyond the frame, a work of art breaking out the boundaries and opened in many directions, in which you can experiment emotionally the present moment.