• Short Exhibitions

    Andrea Colombu – Shadow lines

    February 27 –  march 1, 2019

    Technical sheet: 24 sheets of black paper, crackling and white pen.
    Along the entire wall of the gallery 24 shadows follow one another the same except for the white pencil marks located in the head.
    We do not know if we are looking at the shadow of ourselves or our comrades, acquaintances, strangers met by chance.

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    Andrea Colombu, was born in Cagliari in 1973 where, still today, he lives and works. During his adolescence he enrolled at the “Foiso Fois” State High School in Cagliari.
    He graduated in the mid-1990s and moved to Perugia, where he attended the “Pietro Vannucci” Academy of Fine Arts. The first works are from that decade, and the initial themes that characterize them are strongly influenced by the gestural painting, and refer to artistic movements such as Informal Art.
    While formal research pushes him into the study of purer geometries, the contamination of conceptual art leads him to marry the idea of symbolic content.
    The last years of the decade see him in full experimentation with materials. Paper, stone, iron, coal, chalk and ink.
    After completing his academic studies, in 2000 he completely abandoned the use of the subject to face new techniques and compositional processes, such as photography and vector graphics, often supported by drawing.
    Daily processes that take on a meditative and introspective character, in the observation of contemporary society.


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    Photos by Marco Fronteddu, Andrea Colombu

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    MARAGNAMA – Codroipo Postcards

    November 8-9, 2019

    On November 8th and 9th 2018 the collective Konkezuma Cagliari Drawing Club, took office in the E_EMME Space to give life to two evenings of free and conscious abuse of creativity, fun, friendship, sharing, exchange of opinions and work.
We would like to stress that even alcohol consumption has been conscious, shared and duly paid by the participants. The image of the cashier speaks for itself.
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  • Exhibitions

    Stefano Serusi – Nuragic alliance

    February 6-22, 2019

    Technical sheet: Forno, wall painting, 2019, environment size; Nuragic alliance, 6 lacquered iron stools, 2018, height 35.5 cm, diameter 32 cm; Paese bianco, plastic: vegetable cardboard, wall paint and acrylic paint, 2017, variable dimensions; Umbraghe, colored viscose, 2018, cm 245x195.

    The Nuragic Alliance exhibition brings together the testimonies of some typical meeting places of Sardinian culture, with the aim of analyzing the importance of the spaces for dialogue in the construction of a community.

    White Town is a model that evokes the main features of rural churches, which in Sardinia are, in some cases, built over the sites of nuragic sanctuaries. The result is a coexistence of architecture from different eras, that can be thus compared, such as the nuragic huts, whose fixed seats follow the internal perimeter, and the open spaces around the church, which also – thanks to the versatility of easily movable benches and chairs – adapt to different forms of assembly. The research on color, manifest in many works on display, comes from a direct sampling of the colors showed in Fiorenzo Serra’s documentary La novena (1967), about the holidays in the Sardinian shrines called novenari.

    The image of a circular meeting, devoid of explicit hierarchies (a typical feature of nuragic contexts), is also present in the arrangement of a series of stools designed on the basis of the ones that the nuragic people represented in miniature in the votive bronzes. The installation implicitly invites the audience to sit down, thus creating a physical space for dialogue within the exhibition. The pink outline of a large oven is painted on a wall: it is another example of a fundamental community moment for the Sardinian people, the baking of bread, which is characterized by the use of particularly elaborate masonry ovens.

    The set of these elements (the stools, the oven, the table on which the model is displayed) can be seen as a reference to a single interior space, like the kitchen of an imaginary ethnographic museum, while a suspended cloth refers to those that, in open spaces, are used to shelter from the heat of the Sun: another perimeter within which, once again, people can meet.

    photos by Barbara Pau and Marco Fronteddu

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    Stefano Serusi (Alghero 1980) lives and works in Milan. From the beginning of his journey his work has developed almost naturally in site specific interventions, in which objects and installation works can contribute to a narration. Among the most recent group exhibitions: “Teatrum Botanicum”, PAV, Torino (2016) and “Progetto Città Ideale presents Edicola Radetzky”, at the PAC Contemporary Art Pavilion, Milan (2016) Among the solo shows: “MVS € 0 “, At Display (Parma, 2018),” Sleeping giant “, at the Casa Manno Museum (Alghero, 2017) .In Milan he is one of the founders of Edicola Radetzky.

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  • Short Exhibitions

    Nicola Cioglia – CATWORLD

    January 31 – February 2, 2019

    Tecnical sheet

    12 oils on paper, size 50x70cm executed between 2018 and January 2019.


    Titles

    Untitled, T vs T, My loving cat Tiger, Yellow Tiger, Blue Tiger, Red Tiger 2, Self Portrait with Tiger together very angry, Tiger on crocodile, Red Tiger 1, Untitled, Toxic World, Self-Portrait cuddling Tiger

    Nicola Cioglia (Cagliari 1998) attends the last year of the Foiso Fois Artistic Lyceum in Cagliari.

    CATWORLD

    At least since the last century, painting has ceased to be a way of looking at the world, becoming instead a massive synaesthesia. In the absence of predetermined boundaries, painting has wandered through the senses, uniting everything it could unite. Whatever the subject, the language of reference or the styles used, the act of painting today thrives on a melting pot of stimuli: it is matter, color, composition, but also lived emotion, memory; post-figurative and post-media, it plays on many fields, intertwining the visibility of everyday life with the artificial dimension of reality.

    In short, if complexity is the original sin of contemporary painting, it is clear that even a small exhibition like this one by Nicola, which is almost monothematic, offers a multiplicity of ideas and possible paths. You can use it as a map of the linguistic evolutions of the last decade or as a field research for the figurative references that lurk in its patterns; one can lose oneself in the evocative power of color, follow the material stratification of surfaces, or be inspired by its narrative suggestions. In any case, at some point, you will realize that you lost your objective, because the contamination tension of the elaborations does not allow a singular and directional development. It is therefore normal that, in the end, we’re stuck with the cat.

    P.S. For the record, the cat really exists and it is an integral part of the family.

    Gianni Murtas

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  • Exhibitions

    Alberto Marci – Air Hunger

    January 16 – 25,  2019

    Tecnical sheet: THE WAY OUT IS THROUGH, 2019, Painting, chalcography and silk-screen printing on cotton, 150 x 700 cm; AIR FAME # 3, 2019, Screen printing and manual impression on play dough, 20×20 cm, 3 pieces; HALO 1/3, 2019, Stereo sound, 130″ approx.

    Synopsis

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    You: «You’ll fail, you’ve never been good (that good) at it.»

    Me: «How come, then, I got to you?»

    You: «I was bringing you here, but you stopped.»

    Me: «You said that I never stop.»

    You: «I thought it was normal to remember you.»

    Me: «And also leaving me here, halfway, instead?»

    You: «I never brought you further than where you deserved.»

    Me: «I never went further than I wanted to.»

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    Biography: Alberto Marci (Cagliari 1985) has completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in the Graphic Art section. His training in the areas of experimentation and engraving languages took place in the atelier Casa Falconieri, where from 1999 to 2009 he took part in experimental and research masters. Presented at the Estampa art fair, in the young section of Casa Falconieri from 2004 to 2009, in 2004 and in 2005, he obtained two scholarships from the Fundaciòn CIEC. Artist reported in the 2006 edition of the “Pietro Parigi graphics prize”. In 2008 and 2009 he took part in the residencies on the artist’s book “Reinventare gli Spazi” and “Laboratorio dell’Inquietudine” at the Stazione dell’Arte Foundation in Ulassai, Sardinia. Presented by Casa Falconieri at the 2010 “IKASART II” festival in Bilbao. In 2010 he is the beneficiary of a Master & Back scholarship of the Sardinia Region. Artist invited for the “1st Encuentro Alfara-CIEC” at the Alfara studio in Salamanca. Selected, paired with Maria Penela, for the artistic residences of the “Bienal de Cerveira” in Portugal. Currently he develops his own research work and at the same time he dedicates himself to teaching the printing techniques and publishing for other artists. He has participated in various group exhibitions, his works are present in Italian and foreign public and private collections.

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  • Exhibitions

    A Gift From The Artist

    December 27 – 29. 2018

    Scheda tecnica:

    Lucio Pozzi, Difraction, acrylic on flashe on board, 2 works, cm30,5×22,8×2,2, 2016

    Lorenza Sannai, acrylic on panel, Rientro cm15,2×15,2,4, Regola, Destinato, Fenomeno cm15,2×15,2×2,4  2017, Doppio Peso, Clinamen cm50,8×40,6,2,2, Scarti dell’equilibrio cm40,6×30,5×2,2, 2018

    Linda Schrenk, Il barone rampante, archival pigment print   5/10, n.6 cm150x50  2015.

    Lynn Umlauf, Senza titolo, wire mesh, plexiglas, acetate sheet, metal wire, 2000

    Adriano Orrù, Sarabande sketches, double bass, 27.12.2018, 19,40

    Giacomo Salis & Marco Ferrazza, Improvvisazione, drums and electronic music, 28.12.2018, 20,00

    A gift from the artist is the annual appointment that begins immediately after the Christmas holidays and ends on the last day of the year. This year, from the 27th to the 29th of December, seven artists will offer you a moment of their poetic research.

    Lucio Pozzi, Lorenza Sannai, Linda Schrank, Lynn Umlauf, with their pictures, Adriano Orrù on December 27th – from 7.40pm – with his double bass, Marco Ferrazza and Giacomo Salis on December 28th – from 8.00pm – with their electronic music and percussions.

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    www.luciopozzi.com  www.lorenzasannai.com  www.lindaschrank.com, www.lynnumlauf.com   www.adrianoorru.com  salis & ferrazza duo

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  • Short Exhibitions

    Fabrizio Ortu – Mumble

    3-5 October 2018

    Technical sheet: n.13 acrylic, enamel and felt-tip pen on paper, 7 acrylics on canvas, 1 chalk sculpture and inserts of enamelled acetate.

    In this short exibition, we will talk about writing,  the most abstract art that exists par excellance.

    In fact, only the obligation of a long discipline, i.e. school education, gives us the image of a dog, when we read these curved lines that are sometimes interrupted, and allows us the vision of abstract concepts such as prudence or perseverance.

    We can even see the ”broken“ dog, that is the d, o, g, and without any correspondence to the parts of the same, legs, nose, snout, but as to weave and combine reeds.

    So what do the figures of Fabrizio Ortu tell us, these elaborations of graphic signs imagined as alien writing where colors and signs develop according to rules unknown to us?

    But above all, do we really want norms and explanations that reveal the enigma, depriving us, at the same time, of the fascination of mystery and mortifying our imagination and our intellectual efforts?

    I have always wondered if the annoyance that we experience when someone reveals the name of the murderer prematurely is not the same one that dwells in the art when you simplify the work of an artist in a simplified way, attributing it for example to an artistic current, depriving the viewer of the originality of the discovery.

    Biography: Fabrizio Ortu (Nuoro 1977) lives and works in Nuoro.

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  • Short Exhibitions

    Roberto Falchi – I’ll tell you a tale

    6-8 June 2018

    Technical sheet: 7 paints on paper for food, 2 ink and watercolor on glossy paper, a moleskine booklet with water-colored paper inserts.

    Ti racconto una storia (I’ll tell you a tale) is an intimate tale, partly an autobiographical one, about the conquest of awareness and the achievement of adulthood.

    With images close by taste to the illustrations of fables, Roberto Falchi accompanies us through the choices, experiences, joys and disappointments that mark our existence up to self-(in)consciousness.

    It is difficult to establish when this happens: we can only be sure that, at a certain moment, the world of childhood and adolescence no longer belongs to us. Pragmatic urgencies are superimposed on idealized projects, programs to be implemented according to the available means and immediate feasibility and usability, even if devoid of poetics and imagination.

    And, on the possibility of recovering the age of innocence, this work invites us to find, by isolating individual episodes, the memory and the taste of discovery, the indeterminacy and indefiniteness of feelings, the freshness of emotions.

    One for all: being in love.

    Biography: Roberto Falchi (Cagliari 1980) lives and works in Quartu Sant’Elena. After studying at the Liceo Artistico of Cagliari, he continued his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, achieving with the highest marks the degree in Painting with the prof. Renato Ranaldi, with the correlation of Radu Dragomirescu. From 2001 to 2004, he collaborated at the Ceramic Laboratory of the artist Claudio Pulli in Selargius, CA. In 2004 the artist Bertrand Lavièr asked him for a collaboration to do a job at the Pecci Museum in Prato. In 2004, he collaborated with Radu Dragomirescu for the realization of the preparation of an exhibition at the Church of Barnabiti in Florence. In 2011, he specialized in visual arts and performing arts. He currently teaches Image Art in a secondary school.

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  • Short Exhibitions

    Roberto Randaccio – Fake Papers Lacerations

    2-4 May 2018

    Technical sheet: 5 mixed technique (acrylic and graphite) on paper (japanese Moleskine).

    Lacerazioni is a series of works in acrylic and graphite belonging to the Carte False (Fake Papers) project, a cycle of works characterized by the representation of sheets of paper on real paper.

    The paper, continually cited and depicted in its different styles – folded, cut, torn –, becomes an instrument of investigation to reflect upon appearance and reality, negation and figuration, as well as becoming, with its simple presence of open white paper, a witness and a critic of the works of other artists.

    Lacerazioni is a series of reflections freely inspired by the Dead Christ by Holbein.

    Biography: Roberto Randaccio (Cagliari 1958) lives and works in Cagliari.

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  • Short Exhibitions

    Elisa Desortes – Middle Earth

    14-16 March 2018

    Technical sheet: n. 9 drawings with rapidograph 0.1 postcard size, installation: white table, white chair, interior plan, notebook, pencil.

    In the short-exibition Middle Earth, Elisa Desortes takes us to a no-man’s-land where stereotypical structures and places, destined for the use of a mass audience, have become the new cathedrals of the 21st century.

    Renamed by Marc Augè “non-places”, every day, consciously or not despite the uninviting definition, we voluntarily look for them and attend them, dedicating to them part of our time.

    We look at them, seeking the forced light of every hour of the day, the food and the manufactured goods to meet the taste of everyone, the right ambiance to celebrate personal recurrences, the occasional meetings to socialize and the company to travel.

    And if the recognizability of the structures promises the certainty of the content, the secret desire is to remain a unique individual well distinguishable within them, not confused with the millions of faces that meet intent in the same research with similar motivations.

    Thus, the education to the use of these massively frequented places pushes the community in the opposite direction of empathy, towards an exacerbated individualism.

    Still, we are far from requesting affection through these channels but – who knows – with the progress of online sales on Amazon, the new virtual frontier of “non-places”, perhaps soon enough we will be able to order a surrogate mother, a brother, a faithful pet, and a Prince Charming.

     Biography: Elisa Desortes (Sassari 1974) lives and works in Sassari.

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