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I chose to participate in this edition of the Off Circuit with a series of photographs taken in 2018 from the "Ephemeral" series. Photographs actually taken thinking of them as a reference for my future drawings, as I am mainly a draftsman, but which then found a life of their own.

In a world based on haste, on having it all, on hit and run and on exteriority, the pandemic, and now war as well, have thrown people and certainties into crisis. It is easy in these periods to break down and isolate oneself from the world and from interpersonal contacts.

These delicate and poetic intimate shots want to focus attention and make us reflect on the transience of life and the infinite possibilities of rebirth that we can find within ourselves instead. Difficult moments are an opportunity to grow and become stronger and more aware. And it's precisely in the dark moments that we often find an unexpected strength in us that we didn't know we had and that makes us react to difficulties. So let's not hide our inner fragility, but let's accept them and make them our strength and draw new blood from them to flourish. Today I am strong because I have been weak, pain is often the obligatory means for change and renewal. You have to die a little to be reborn.

From 5 to 20 March 2022, at the historic “Bourbon military district” of Casagiove (Caserta), the art exhibition called “Domna”.

It is an annual exhibition dedicated to women, organized by the Association "eXclusive”, with exhibition venue in Teano (CE).

This second edition (the first was held in 2019 and then suspended for two years due to the pandemic) will be enriched by meetings and theatrical performances.

The events and shows will be part of the artistic review "START AGAIN“, curated by the artistic association “30Allora”, which includes the performance of Marco Mantovanelli on March 6, of Nunzia Schiano on March 13th and Annalisa Brignola on March 20th.

Tuesday 8 March, however, there will be a meeting organized by the municipal administration of Casagiove, in collaboration with the C.U.G., called “8 March: let's talk about women”, an opportunity to reflect on the contributions that women have made to the City in promoting gender equality.

As speakers, in addition to the Mayor and the Councilor for Social Policies, Dr Anna Altavilla, there will be Prof. Luciano De Luca (Teacher of Motor and Sports Sciences at the 'A. Manzoni' high school in Caserta - Member of the C.N.I.F.P.), Dr. Agnese Ginocchio (Teacher and President of the International movement for peace and the protection of Creation) and Dr. Antonio Casertano (Public Journalist).

We will therefore range from visual arts to multidisciplinary contexts, trying to investigate women in their complexity and pay homage to them through diversified aesthetics.

The concept of the exhibition is Paolo Feroce, art curator and head of the collections of Museo d’arte e design PAM, located in the ducal palace of Parete (CE).

The inauguration will be held on Saturday, March 5, at 6:00 pm, with the journalist welcoming visitors Laura Ferrante and the Mayor of the City of Casagiove, Dr. Giuseppe Vozza, while the Councilor delegated for culture will be present at the evening Gennaro Caiazza and the Director responsible for events Pietro Menditto, the Councillor Anna Altavilla and the Councillor Giovanna Ferrante with delegations to Gender and Equal Opportunities policies.

Artists from all over Italy will exhibit at the exhibition, such as: Alessandra Angelini of Parma, Margherita Argentiero of Lodi, Vittoria Giobbio of Saronno, Roberta Janes of Milan, Maria Rosanna Cafolla of Rome, Tina Pedrazzini of Lodi, Cristina Taiana of Varese, Veronica Longo of Pozzuoli, Luigi Cennamo Sbarra of Savona, Andrea Vogler of Alexandria, Francesco Zefferino of Bari, Diego Valentinuzzi of Monfalcone, Andrea Pietro Gagini of Milan, Miriam Ravasio of Lecco, Paola Bona of Turin, Giuseppina Irene Groccia of Cosenza, Luisa Russo of Naples and Cristina Iotti of Sassuolo.

From Friday 30 December 2021 to Sunday 23 January 2022 | PAGGERIA ART & TOURISM | Sassuolo (MO)

At the prestigious civic rooms of the Paggeria Arte Gallery, recently transformed into Pageria Arte & Turismo, located in the square of the Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo, the personal exhibition of Cristina Iotti entitled: the shadow of the body will be held from 30 December to 23 January 2022.

The artist will present a series of previously unpublished drawings, created over the last two years specifically for this exhibition.

Inauguration Thursday 30 December from 5pm

The germ of this exhibition – writes the artist – was born in December 2019 after having agreed with the Municipality on a personal exhibition originally scheduled for December 2020. I wanted to create a new and at the same time intimate project; I was looking for a heartfelt theme that deeply belonged to me .

One morning, during my daily visit to my parents, I was surprised to look at their unmade beds with different eyes. I began to study them and perceive a strong evocative and symbolic power in those folds which I then tried to convey through my drawings. These beds, which until a few minutes earlier had welcomed the bodies of my parents in their tormented sleep, with their movements during the night, had formed these folds, which had dramatically and forcefully become the protagonists of this new series of works of mine.(… )

... with sensitivity and mastery – writes Anita Peterle in the presentation text – she was able to immortalise, through chiaroscuro executed with patience and devotion, these sweaty and tormented shadows of her parents. The sheets, like shrouds, take the shape of every movement suffered, when getting up is torture after a night spent in pain in the limbs, with no future left.

Today all these niches hang around us like icons of a journey, of a diary, in which hope and experience fill the treasure chest of our memory.Cristina has not only suspended shadows, but living presences which, through her pencils, have taken up a different I walk, in each of his works we feel the breath and the warmth (…)… “

Biographical notes: Cristina Iotti graduated in 1987 in Illustration from the Institute's three-year higher course

European Design Institute (IED) in Milan. Since 2002 he has dedicated himself exclusively to painting and

to drawing and since then he has regularly exhibited in personal and collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad.

He has received numerous awards and prizes in various national and international competitions.

In 2007 she was the winner in the graphics section of the "ART Award “ announced to the magazine ART

Cairo Publisher and the Special Prize Faber-Castell and, for the first time in the history of the award,

was also awarded the Gold Plate in the 2008 edition. He collaborated for several years with the

Costa Crociere and numerous of his works can be found on the Costa Luminosa and Costa Deliziosa ships,

Costa Fascinosa and Costa Diadema. For some years he has been collaborating with the Tecnografica italian wallcoverings

for the creation of wallpapers signed with your own designs. He lives and works in Sassuolo (MO).

Inauguration Thursday 30 December from 5pm

Entrance to the Gallery permitted according to current Covid regulations

Opening hours: Saturday and Sunday: 10.30am – 12.30pm | 4.00pm – 7.00pm

Extraordinary openings Friday 31 December 2021 and Thursday 6 January 2022: 4.00 pm – 7.00 pm

or by appointment.

PAGGERIA ART & TOURISM | Piazzale della Rosa | Sassuolo (MO)

With the patronage of the Municipality of Sassuolo

For information: info@cristinaiotti.it www.cristinaiotti.it tel.0536804833 cultura@comune.sassuolo.mo.it www.facebook.com/iotticristina

CURIOUS
Art parade 3.0

Saturday 4 December (from 4pm to 7pm) inauguration of the collective exhibition CURIOSA Art parade 3.0

At the exhibition you will find many artists and creatives who collaborate with us and await you with their works of painting, sculpture, curiosities and gift ideas for a creative and sustainable Christmas

ARTISTS
Fabio Adani, Francesca Artoni, Nicoletta Bagatti, Maddalena Barletta, Massimo Bassi, Cristina Bedeschi, Federico Bianchi, Milena Buzzoni, Massimo Canuti, Antonio Caputo, Emanuela Cerutti, Antonella De Nisco, Bruno Ferrari, Nicla Ferrari, Mirko Frignani, Luisa Guidetti, Cristina Iotti, Marisa Iotti, Oscar Piovosi, Vilder Rosi, Simona Rovesti, Giovanni Sala.

HANDMAKERS
Il Filo Logico, La Bottega dei Cuori, Migdal

Gommapane ART Space
Via Paterlini 23/B, Cavriago (RE)

I will participate as an invited artist at the 4th Salerno Biennial / Palazzo Fruscione from 6 to 21 November 2021 / Salerno

Inauguration 6 November at 6.30pm

edited by Giuseppe Gorga and Olga Marciano

http://www.biennaleartesalerno.com/

IMAGERY
FIGURABILIA, the first edition of the small iconic art festival, will take place on 24|25|26 January 2020 in Bologna

The artists involved are:
ANTONELLA CINELLI, ROBERTA DALLARA, ERICA FUSCHINI, CRISTINA IOTTI, ILARIA MARGUTTI, ROBERTA SERENARI, VANIA ELETTRA TAM, ROBERTA UBALDI.

At the center of this first edition will be the female figure, interpreted by 8 Italian artists who will exhibit and illustrate the role and symbolic meaning of women through figurative art.

Also on the program are workshops, literary meetings and discussions between artists, intellectuals and the public.

The creator and artistic director of the festival is Antonella Cinelli.
Special guest is the art critic Carlo Micheli.
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> Inauguration Friday 24 January 2020
5.30pm Spazio Menomale via de’ Pepoli 1/2 – Bologna
ore 19.30 Odeon Gallery via Mascarella 3 – Bologna
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>> opening hours <<
Menomale Space: Fri 5.30pm | 10.00pm – Sat 4.00pm | 24.00 – Sun 15.00 | 8.00pm
Odeon Gallery: every day from 3.30pm to 11pm
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A selection of works will remain on display until 21 February 2020 at the Odeon Gallery

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>> Figurebilia program, talk, meetings and presentations <<

> Friday 24 January 2020

*Space Luckily:
– 5.30 pm – Inauguration of FIGURABILIA
Greetings from the president of the school and culture commission of the municipality of Bologna FEDERICA MAZZON
– Following CARLO MICHELI talks with the artists (and with the public)
– 9.00 pm – “Illustration, photography and painting in dialogue with the written page Meetings with the author in collaboration with Edizioni Pendragon” presents:
“Bertoldo and Bertoldino” with Giuseppe Palumbo and Franco Bacchelli. A new illustrated edition of Giulio Cesare Croce's classic

*Odeon Gallery:
– 7.30 pm – FIGURABLE inauguration

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> Saturday 25 January

Space Luckily:
– 5.00 pm – “Illustration, photography and painting in dialogue with the written page Meetings with the author in collaboration with Edizioni Pendragon” presents:
“The animated flowers” ​​with Antonio Castronuovo and Nicola Muschitiello. Anthropomorphic flowers or women with graceful and delicate features dressed as flowers represent the sum of the creative talent of Grandville, the famous illustrator and caricaturist of the second French romanticism.
– 6.30 pm – Ilaria Margutti Presents the Casermarcheologica project “Architecture that generates community” Space for contemporary art.

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> Sunday 26 January

*Space Luckily:
– 4.00 pm – “Illustration, photography and painting in dialogue with the written page Meetings with the author in collaboration with Edizioni Pendragon” presents:
“Portraits of invisible people” with Rosy Sinicropi and Diego Pagani. We talk a lot about bees, but little about their keepers. Stories of thirteen beekeepers told through photographs and texts.
– 5.30 pm – “Illustration, photography and painting in dialogue with the written page Meetings with the author in collaboration with Edizioni Pendragon” presents:
“The little book of clouds” with Eléonore Grassi and Federica Rapini. Original and difficult to classify into a specific literary genre, this publication full of surprises tells of the world of wonders that lie just above us.

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INFO:

IMAGERY
Small festival of iconic art
24|25|26 January 2020

LUCKY SPACE via de' Pepoli 1/2 Bologna
ODEON GALLERY via Mascarella 3 Bologna

Project conception and artistic direction: Antonella Cinelli
With the participation of the art critic: Carlo Micheli

The theme of this first edition is THE FEMALE IN ART
The artists involved are:
ANTONELLA CINELLI, ROBERTA DALLARA, ERICA FUSCHINI, CRISTINA IOTTI, ILARIA MARGUTTI, ROBERTA SERENARI, VANIA ELETTRA TAM, ROBERTA UBALDI.

In collaboration with Edizioni Pendragon
Coordination assistant: Roberta Dallara
Graphic project: Vania Elettra Tam

Inauguration Friday 24 January 2020
5.30pm Space Menomale
ore 19.30 Odeon Gallery

opening hours Spazio Menomale: Fri 5.30pm | 10.00pm – Sat 4.00pm | 24.00 – Sun 15.00 | 8.00pm
Odeon Gallery opening hours: every day from 3.30pm to 11pm

Press Office: Fluid Communication
Barbara Mazzocco – barbara.mazzocco@fluidacomunicazione.it
M. +39 347 950 7832 – www.fluidacomunicazione.it

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8 WOMEN 8 by Carlo Micheli:

FIGURABILIA must be experienced with the same feverish expectation as when as children we awaited the circus, perhaps one of those smaller, self-managed circuses, where the trapeze artist also takes care of the lights, but where by choice high-level attractions were found, eager to change some rules of the show, where eight artists perform high-school numbers, engaging with the public and the experts to understand, to be understood, to understand each other. FIGURABILIA is a pebble thrown into the pond, but you have enormous expectations, because you will involve the "top floor of the head" and art needs this more, today more than ever. And my role? Launching this Festival in the spirit and role of the presenter of a circus show, who is responsible for filling the pauses between one number and another, but who is in fact happy to cut it short, aware that the public is who came to witness the virtuosity of the magnificent eight…

ANTONELLA CINELLI is the creator and curator of FIGURABILIA, “dea ex machina” of the festival. His painting, which can be defined as "documentation" portraiture, is technically evolving towards greater speed of execution, towards less defined but more meaningful images in which, thanks to the large formats, the subject is placed under a special magnifying glass which, instead of physical peculiarities, accentuates their interiority and moral qualities.

ROBERTA DALLARA focuses her attention on fragments of uninhabited interiors, however pervaded by the palpable, perceptible presence of herself. Minimal clues scattered throughout the narrative process: a t-shirt hung out to dry on the balcony, lace on the seat of the chair, suggest the author's subtle game. Precisely the proclaimed absence of the female figure evokes her presence, thus breaking down the specious wall erected between realism and abstraction.

ERIVA FUSCHINI in her "pictorial introspections" offers portraits of the homeless, reminding us that the term does not indicate a particular human category, but an existential condition: there are those who are victims of their own excesses, those who have suffered relentless pain, but also who observes us with commiseration... The artist's inquiring and (artaudian-style) cruel gaze goes well with the drawing of the leopard which, not coincidentally, Erica titled "me".

CRISTINA IOTTI conducts her research on the level of apparent simplicity, masterfully creating true icons of femininity, focused on external attributes (lace, flowers, embroidered dresses, hands with long, well-groomed nails). But these are details, parts of the body, while her face never appears, so that the unrecognizable figure becomes the archetype of a timeless femininity, all delicacy, elegance, lightness.

ILARIA MARGUTTI has chosen to sew her passion onto the canvas, embroidering an interiority that is revealed stitch after stitch, giving body to the sign, sometimes to the dream. This "philography" is in fact a particular realizing, all-encompassing liturgy, which encloses the artist in a sort of timeless cocoon, where the repetitiveness of the gesture lulls her thoughts, exposing her personality. A blood-colored thread to ensure escape from the labyrinth of contemporary banality.

ROBERTA SERENARI, equipped with an uncommon technique, has the great merit of having made her art flow towards dreamlike and surreal dynamics. Her girls are restless and disturbing like childhood and fairy tales should be, Anchovies who challenge the gazes of adults without affectation. Immersed in rooms full of abandoned toys, they tear apart the furnishings and customs of the past. Rebellious and disenchanted, they know how to abandon themselves to dreams and creativity.

VANIA ELETTRA TAM projects an ironic gaze onto reality, delving into the depths of the unconscious to highlight the paradoxical situations we no longer even notice. Her paintings, apparently easy to read, hide a conceptual work that ranges from advertising to puzzles, from news to art history. This transversal research gives her works an unmistakable stylistic signature, characterized by various interpretations, summarized in the play on words CONTAMinATION.

ROBERTA UBALDI uses rust as a support and material for her artistic work. But the rust also represents that thin diaphragm of place, time and space from which the pictorial interventions seem to free themselves, re-emerging from oblivion... or from which they are sucked in to disappear into a parallel dimension. The drama of the representations seems to clash with the warm and persuasive colours, but a winning balance is born from this Heraclitean contrast.

But what a nature!”
Visions and perspectives on the environment in which we live
-from 15 December 2019 to 6 January 2020-

Lark, association for arts and culture, based in #Adelfia (BA), organizes and promotes for the third consecutive year, an artistic exhibition project that aims to bring art closer to people, through quality, accessibility and artistic actions of social and territorial promotion.

Art as a critical reflection on the human being, around the theme of "nature, environment and territory", in cooperation with the Lower Secondary School, the Pro Loco of Adelfia and with the patronage of the Municipality of Adelfia.

This is how the “Ma Che Natura!” project will welcome you.

15 December 2019, 11.00 am
Norman Tower in crazy Galtieri n.26, Adelfia (Bari)
*Inauguration and start of the exhibition of creations created by students of the third classes of the Lower Secondary School of Adelfia.

16 December 2019, 8.00 pm
Former Town Hall in via Rutigliano n.2, Adelfia (Bari)
*Inauguration and start of the international art exhibition with works by artists from all over Italy and internationally
*Inauguration with performance by Iula Marzulli “To see the vineyard flourish”

21 December 2019, 6.30 pm
Former Town Hall in via Rutigliano n.2, Adelfia (Bari)
*Presentation of the book “The lost revolution of poets” by Andrea Semplici, Polaris Publishing House