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Short Exhibitions

Raffaello Ugo – Painteque

7-9 February 2018

Technical sheet: 15 drawings in colored pencil on paper.
A series of portraits of domestic life are an opportunity for Raffaello Ugo to invite us to reflect upon the concept of memory.
Starting from common subjects, daily gestures and actions that are repeated without apparent variations, small episodes that for an instant alter the daily routine, this is an exhibition of individual memories, focused on the suggestion of memory and its reworking, the sum of analogous episodes, making it an opportunity to search for one’s own self, an invitation to self-awareness and self-knowledge.
The non-exceptionality of the subjects means that they become a common ground of everybody’s memory, a sort of family lexicon, where the collective memory of friends, relatives, animals and places is transformed into a paean.
And the suggestion or invitation that seems to spring from the memory of our memories, both affectionate and ironic, that stares us from the walls is that the most courageous action we carry out in our existence: heroism is learning to know each other.

Biography: Raffaello Ugo (Empoli, 1957) lives and works in Monserrato.
Homepage: www.avvoltelinverso.org

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Marco Pautasso – The children are watching us

18-20 October 2017

Technical sheet: 8 oil paintings on canvas, 1 oil painting on paper.
I bambini ci guardano (The children are watching us) is the title of a 1944 film by Vittorio De Sica, but also a common expression often used by adults when, due to a regrettable situation, they feels embarrassed in front of their children.
But is it so true that innocence is a maiden and the adult world is an ogre?
The presumed innocence of the young age is nothing other than the self-evident will, without veils and hypocrisies, of one’s own desires when one is still unaware of having to moderate them in hers or his relationship with others.
A long education, given by adults above all by example, teaches rules and subterfuges, principles and shortcuts, to transform childhood caprices into needs, the desire for ownership in control and the will to coerce in sharing objectives.
The right thing, the whim to change and scaling up childish games, including their consequences.
And it is in such circumstances, in the construction of the scaffold of existence, made of conveniences, compromises, subterfuges and betrayals that it may happen that children watch us, and the king is naked.

Biography: Marco Pautasso (Cagliari, 1980) lives and works in Cagliari.
Homepage: http://pautac16.wixsite.com/marcopautasso

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Guests

Kerlox Dynamic 3

24 April 2018
On the occasion of the personal exhibition The Mani by Marco Useli, Kerlox Dynamic 3 played live in the gallery: Carlo Mascolo, trombone – Domenico Saccente, accordion – Felice Furioso, drums.
Biographies
Carlo Mascolo is a composer and arranger of acoustic, electric and computer music. He studied with Maurizio Patarino, Tomaso Lama, Saverio Vizziello, Michele Lomuto, Gianni Lenoci, Stefano Battaglia, Francesco Scagliola, Christian Burchard. He was a professor of pre-academic courses at the Music Academy of Monopoli. He has been full time teacher of jazz and brass instruments in the Jerusalem Music Academy. He was a full time lecturer in brass intruments, ensemble music, theory and harmony, in the Al-Kamandjati Music Center in Ramallah and in the Al-Amari refugee camps, Qalandia in the West Bank.
Creator and host of the project “Kerlox Dynamic Project” (1999) and of the Improv Orchestra “Bouh Magic Orchestra” (2010). He has played in clubs and festivals in Italy, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Czech Republic, Austria, Turkey, Palestine, Morocco, U.S., Colombia and Argentina.
He has collaborated with Embryo, Christian Burchard, Michele Lomuto, Gianni Lenoci, Steve Potts, Antonello Salis, Eugenio Colombo, Chop Chop Band, Marcello Magliocchi, Mik Quantius, Lothar Stahl, Jens Pollheide, Frankenstein Ballet, Lori Goldston, Nicola Guazzaloca, Monsieur Periné , Suricato, Raul Platz, Blasie Siwula, Pacho Davila, Moktar Ghania, Allen Blairman, Yuri Parvenov, Abdul Moimeme, Yedo Gibson, Vasco Trilla, Jean-Marc Foussat, Luiz Rocha, Nicolas Chientaroli, Dirar Kalash, Carlos Zingaro,, Ape5, Vittorino Curci, Ada Rave, Renato Ferreira, George Hadow, Guy- Frank Pellerin, White Noise Generator, Paulo Chagas, Joao Pedro Viegas, Okay Temiz, Hakan Ali Tocker, Albert Cireira, Maria Do Mar. Maria Radich, Joao Madeira and Rogier Smal , James Harrar, Marshall Allen, Charles Gayle and many others.
Homepage: https://www.muzicplus.it/it/chi-siamo/carlo-mascolo.html
Domenico Saccente. At the age of eight, he began his accordion studies, which he continued over the years with Francesco Palazzo at the “Niccolò Piccinni” Music Academy in Bari. He is currently enrolled at the Music Academy “E.R. Duni” of Matera, where he attends a jazz piano course. He has participated in workshops with leading national and international artists such as Christian Burchard, Lothar Stahl, Jens Pollheide, Mik Quantius, Carlo Mascolo, Marcello Magliocchi, Gianni Lenoci, Marshall Allen, Lori Goldston, Morjane Mourad, Greg Burk, Joao Pedro Viegas , Yedo Gibson, Vasco Trilla, Carlos Zingaro, Paulo Chagas, Nicola Guazzaloca, Stefano Luigi Mangia, Embryo.
Since 2005, he has been part of the Kerlox Dynamic Project, which varies from world music to radical improvisation using the languages of the contemporary soundscape.
Homepage:https://www.muzicplus.it/it/chi-siamo/domenico-saccente.html
Felice Furioso. He started playing the drums at the age of 10, a self-taught drummer. As a boy, he attended the violin music course of the secondary school. In 2009, he founded “Banda Agorà” with his friends and played at the Rock Targato Italia musical event. In 2012, with the “Banda Agora”, he played at the Italia Wave Festival at the Circolo Degli Artisti in Rome. In 2014, he actively participated in the composition workshops in real time and creative music with trombonist Carlo Mascolo, Mik Quantius, Yedo Gibson, Carlos Zingaro, Paulo Chagas and the German group, Embryo.
For a few years, he has collaborated with the Kerlox Dynamic Project, which varies from world music to radical improvisation, using the languages of the contemporary soundscape. To date, with this project he has participated in three international festivals of improvised music, such as “Free Flow Festival 2015” in Altamura, “Clockstop Fest 2015” in Noci, “MIA 2015 – Encontro de Música Improvisada de Atouguia da Baleia” in Portugal . In 2016 he took part in the “Waiting for the Free Flow Festival” exhibition. He was one of the organizers of the fifth edition of the Free Flow Fest, which saw the involvement of national and international artists of the avant-garde scene.
Homepage: https://www.muzicplus.it/it/chi-siamo/felice-furioso.html

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Adriano Orrù – Simple Cosmogony

13 October, 25 October 2018
On the occasion of GAP by LUCIO POZZI, Adriano Orrù played Simple Cosmogony/Cosmogonia Semplice (double bass, rattles, brush, percussion rod).
Orrù’s intervention was introduced by an improvised prelude originating from the suggestions of Pozzi’s works. Following this, he began his Cosmogonia Semplice, composed in 2012.
We report how the musician commented to his participation to GAP: «I thought of a sort of duality between the vertical and the horizontal (two elements that, in music, bear importance and meaning). Without trying to force some implausible similarity, I put these two dimensions in relation through the sound, the performative action and the “important” presence of my instrument, the double bass. A geography/geometry of sound and space.»
Biography: Adriano Orrù is a double bass player who plays jazz, radical improvisation, chamber music and multimedia projects. He has collaborated in various projects with Paolo Fresu, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Tony Oxley, Lenka Zupkova, AN MOKU, Gianni Mimmo, Marco Colonna, Samuel Hallqvist, Ettore Fioravanti, Roberto Cipelli, Marco Tamburini, Tino Tracanna, Andy Gravish, Tim Hodkinson, Paulo Chagas , Joao Pedro Viegas, Guy-Frank Pellerin, Maria Do Mar, Luiz Rocha, Samuel Hällkvist, François Choiselat, Mauro Sambo, Marcello Magliocchi, Victor Nubla, White Noise Generator, Simon Balestrazzi, Silvia Corda, Takatsuna Mukai, Henning Frimann, Guro Skumsnes Moe, Håvard Skaset, Paul Angeli, Paula Gimeno, Yali Herbet. He recorded for Splasc (h), Digitalis Purpurea, Comar23, TiConZero, Big Round Records, Pork Bristle, Magick With Tears, LaBèl, Pan and Rosas, Endtitles, Creative Sources, Amirani Records. Reviews, articles, interviews have appeared on Rai Radio3, Doublebassist, All About Jazz, Il Manifesto, Blow Up, Jazz.pt and others.

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Exhibitions

Lucio Pozzi – GAP

13 October – 2 November 2018

Technical sheet: n. 12 acrylic on flashe on board, 30,5×22,8×2,2cm. 1 installation – 2 banners: digital photos in black and white, pvc gr. 500, 360x90cm; 2 slabs of wood 170x80x1,5cm painted with glossy yellow enamel; Tulip, 11 Sept. 2018, 76x57cm, acrylic on paper; Moonsong, 12 Sept. 2018, 76x57cm, acrylic on paper; 8 nails.
GAP is divided into two parallel lines: on one side there are twelve small paintings of the Diffraction/Diffrazioni series and on the other one a new installation called Fortuna. The paintings are very colorful acrylic paintings in which two color strips never meet. The installation has black and white drawings on two slabs of wood painted in yellow that are placed on digital photos 3.20 meters high. In a controversy with what he calls the “virus of explanation”, Pozzi does not explain his works and wants to stimulate the spectators to recreate the art piece in their mind as they please.

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Biography: Lucio Pozzi was born in 1935 in Milan. After living a few years in Rome, where he studied architecture, he arrived in the United States in 1962, a guest of the Harvard International Summer Seminar. He immediately established himself in New York and took American citizenship. After a while, his art began to be exhibited in galleries such as Aries, Bykert, John Weber, Gianenzo Sperone, Yvon Lambert, Leo Castelli. He lives and works in Valeggio sul Mincio (VR) and Hudson (NY). Pozzi is a painter who loves to paint and, at the same time, pursue his interests even in contexts that are not exactly pictorial.
Homepage: www.luciopozzi.com

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Lynn Umlauf – Transparent Layers

5-21 November 2018

Technical sheet: 1 plexiglass sculpture and 8 nails 2018; n.1 plexiglass sculpture, wire mesh, painted elastic cord, wooden rod, 4 nails 2018; n.1 clay sculpture in two elements, metal cable, enamels 2016; n.5 acrylic and pastel on paper, n.1 acrylic on glossy paper, n1 mixed media on paper years 2015-2018.
An original selection of wall sculptures and drawings made between 2015 and the current year. For the American artist, fresh from an anthological exhibition dedicated to her works of the 70s at the Zürcher Gallery in Manhattan, New York, this is the second exhibition in our city.

Biography: since the seventies, Lynn Umlauf divides her life and work between New York and Tuscany. She has exhibited in several historical Italian galleries including La Polena di Genova, Galleria Peccolo in Livorno, Galleria Studio la Città di Verona, Galleria Plurima in Udine.
Lynn Umlauf (Austin 1942) lives and works in New York and Spannocchia (Tuscany). She studied at the University of Texas in Austin, at the Art Students’ League in New York and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. She currently teaches at Visual Art in New York. Her works have been exhibited in 143 exhibitions since 1966.
Homepage: www.lynnumlauf.com

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Antonio Secci – The Right Side

12-29 June 2018

Technical sheet: n.8 mixed technique on board, n.1 pastel on paper. Years: 1970-2016.
The core of selected works in this small anthology embraces a period ranging from the 70s to our days. In these 40 years, the artist has chosen, from time to time, different materials (metals, plastics, papers, acrylic colors, pencils) to create material surfaces where only two colors delimit spaces and shapes accentuating the contrast. These irregular geometric shapes, forced on a two-dimensional support that they try to escape, are projecting themselves in the only possible direction (towards the eyes of the spectator), are forced to cohabit in the space dictated by the artist, and find a dialogue within those boundaries. Each work becomes a sort of atoll dispersed in the ocean, a place or mirage with which to confront, collide or join, letting the tensions and energies that ripple edges and surfaces find a common wavelength.

Biography: Antonio Secci (Dorgali 1944) lives and works in Dorgali.
Homepage: www.antoniosecci.com

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Vincenzo Grosso – Faber Sapiens

16 May – 1 June 2018

Technical sheet: n.9 oil on canvas, n.1 oil on canvas, n.5 mixed technique on masonite, n.1 oil on mds, n.2 etchings on paper, n.2 mixed technique on an aerosol-art decorated wall mural.
Twenty works that awaken ancestral memories and questions about the role of homo sapiens, pursued since the dawn of his conscience/knowledge.

Biography: Vincenzo Grosso (Nuoro 1977) lives and works in Nuoro and Berlin. Due to his interest in street art, he began his experience on the walls of his city. He graduated in jewelery at the Art Institute of Nuoro. In the same year, he left for Florence where he graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts. From 2004, he attended the S.I.S.S. Tuscany, where he obtained the qualification for teaching Pictorial Disciplines. From 2005 to 2009, he taught at the Art Institute of Nuoro and collaborated for the realization of events and artistic interventions in his region and in some Italian cities.
In 2010, he left for Berlin, where he worked for two years with Xlab Gallery, focusing his attention on post-architectures and the possible consequences of the excesses of the modern world. He was invited to the 54th Venice Biennale in the Pavilion of his region. In addition to participating to awards, art festivals and exhibitions, he works with five artists at the Nuoro SEUNA LAB project, which has become a place for sharing experiences.
In 2011, he spent three months in London in the MAN-GASWORKS residency program. In 2012, he was invited to Casa Falconieri where he followed the research workshop “Signs of the urban landscape”. The experimentation of graphics and printing continues at BBK Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, where he still works. In 2013, he actively worked on a new show-room Studio in the German capital. He was selected among the artists of A.P.T. Global Collection. His works are part of public and private collections.

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Marco Useli – The Mani

11-27 April 2018

Technical sheet: n.7 oil on canvas, 1 engraving and ink on 1/1 cotton paper, n.1 ink and crayon on cotton paper, n.2 ink, colored pencils and acrylic on cotton paper, n. 1 acrylic rolled on paper, 1 graphite on cotton paper, n1. acrylic and crayon on paper, 5 woodcut and drypoint of 5.
An original selection of oil paintings, engravings and drawings made to give life to a ready-made, minimal and irregular encyclopaedia in which a small multitude of Mani and a plurality of hands heatedly discuss their memories and the future, opposable thumbs, limbs and anatomies and gestures and islands and reckless trips like that of Ulysses in Joyce’s Dublin.
An episode of serious pictorial research between a boxing match and a puzzle magazine.
Statement by the author
My work crystallized the succession and overlapping of events and consumption. I define a rhythm and create the limits of an instantaneous landscape through the pictorial gesture.
I seek formal synthesis of states of fact originated from subterranean and complex dynamics.
I focus on elementary forms of landscape, on factors that interact in radical environments such as stone quarries, production and industrial sites, spaces for survival of spontaneous vegetation in urban areas.
I do formal research and experimentation without compromise on the issues raised by the artistic work, the exploitation of environmental resources and the use of tools that have a strong impact on nature.

Biography: Marco Useli (Nuoro 1983) lives and works in Milan and Dorgali. After graduating from the art institute, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in 2007. After a two-year experience in London, he settled in Milan where he obtained a Master in Contemporary Design with Stone at the Polytechnic. Since 2012, he is part of the Milan Print Makers, which deals with developing research in graphic art. In 2017, he also opened a studio in Dorgali (NU) where he continues his artistic research. The studio hosts, under his curatorship, exhibitions and painting and engraving workshops.

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Igino Panzino – Augmented Reality

23 March – 6 April 2018

Technical sheet: n. 13 cut out photographs, recomposed on forex.
Realtà Aumentata (Augmented Reality) is the title of the exhibition that Igino Panzino’s main works in the last 3 years: pieces of art made by reworking various photographic shots, in certain cases details, taken from his archive. After being dissected into cards, they were recomposed and positioned on layers.
These are metalinguistic works and, because of that, we thought proper to involve a plurality of opinions to comment them.
Therefore, we asked for the collaboration of photographers, curators, professors of aesthetics and art history, artists, to set up an exhibition that avoided a single point of view and, thus, adhered to the spirit of the works on display.
Thus, each image has an appendix consisting of a text that is not and does not want to be just a caption but, like the photographic blocks that compose it, contributes to the definition of the work or perhaps to the revelation of the complete indefiniteness of its borders.
In this way, the exhibition itself overcomes/includes the definition of installation, exhibition, work in progress, collective laboratory, a mix of genres made with intelligence and irony, capable of asking questions about the same semantics that art employs.
In short, by deconstructing our knowledge and references, Panzino invites us to embrace the new century and to use our experience to investigate the present and the future with open and curious eyes.

Biography: Igino Panzino (Sassari 1951) lives and works in Sassari. He completed his studies at the Sassari State Institute of Art, a school gifted – under the direction of Mauro Manca – with a lively atmosphere of discussion and research. Raised in the highly ideological moment of the late Sixties, he began its exhibition activity in the early seventies, conceptualizing the work of art as a product of a peculiar and autonomous language, endowed with infinite expressive possibilities, by creating three-dimensional structures with a neo-constructivist style, characterized by a marked design-oriented form, distinguished by an manifest craftmanship. In the same years, he joined the Rosa Group (conceptual orientation training, conceived by Aldo Contini), where he deepened a choice of investigation focused on the highlighting of the procedures and linguistic means.
Since the eighties, he devoted himself to painting, with a particular focus on watercolor and drawing, first transferring the clear geometry of the previous plastic structures onto the canvas, then focusing on analytical texture effects that maintain an evident design-oriented approach, albeit softened by the gestures of the techniques implemented. The design-oriented dimension, constant presence in his activity, translated in sculpture in his most recent works, currently tends to focus on the environment as a result of collaboration with architects with whom he has created several public works distributed in various locations in Sardinia. Nowadays, he realizes works based on the transformation of photography into a plastic object.
From 1969 to 2002, Panzino taught at the Artistic Lyceum of Cagliari and in the Art Institutes of Sassari, Alghero, Valenza Po and Rome. He has exhibited in Italy and abroad in public and private spaces. He currently lives and works in Sassari.

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