FEMALE, PLURAL
Review in three acts curated by Alessandra Redaelli
Second Act | THE VIEW ON THE WORLD
Third Act | THE SPACES OF THE DREAM
Biffi Arte presents the newest and most original voices of Italian female art in three exhibitions.
Pirola Palace
Piazza della Repubblica 1 – Gorgonzola – MI
October 18 | 09 November
inauguration Saturday 18 October at 6pm
with the performance I've never been a little girl,
Twenty-five female artists for Palazzo Pirola
At Palazzo Pirola we are at the second stage of the Femminile, Plural exhibition. A super event that brings together twenty-five of the most interesting names on the female artistic scene in Italy.
A double stop because here, a stone's throw from Milan, from 18 October to 9 November the protagonists of two exhibitions created under the banner of Biffi Arte will meet. The first, The Look at the World, from 27 June to 3 August brought together the gazes of 14 women in the Piacenza gallery. From the poetic photographs of Alessandra Baldoni to the infinite spaces painted by Linda Carrara, from the labyrinths of trees by Marika Vicari to the teeming construction sites of Marina Previtali, from the carnal flowers of Chiara Albertoni to the imposing ones of Brigitta Rossetti, from the silent rooms of Tina Sgrò to the chaotic crowd of Liliana Cecchin. And then Elisa Rossi's girls, Cristina Iotti's soft patterns, Claudia Scarsella's kaleidoscopes, Loredana Galante's fairy chaos, Marica Fasoli's more real-than-life children, up to the music, photographed in vibrations by Marina Giannobi.
The second exhibition, The spaces of the dream, will open its doors on November 22nd in Piacenza and will end on February 8th next year, and will bring together eleven other unique and unmistakable voices. To tell the dream, the fantasy. Sometimes a nightmare. So here, at Palazzo Pirola, a preview of their works.
Alice Colombo's dreams materialize in vague collages, full of small details to be followed with the gaze as in a treasure hunt. They are little girls leading multicolored birds on a leash or they are whales stranded among the branches of a tree, protagonists of stories told in a light, whispered tone. Federica Gonnelli instead recreates the dream through installations that welcome the viewer like an enveloping embrace, all played on soft lights and transparencies, in a continuous doubling and modification of reality. If Jara Marzulli with a very light, liquid painting evokes timeless female figures, frozen in a suspended moment of abandonment and meditation, the women that Adele Ceraudo interprets in her meticulous pen drawings, where she herself transforms into the protagonists of the most classic iconographies of sacred art, give an idea of warrior strength. An "other" reality, vibrant, very mobile, made of a transparent material with aquatic suggestions is the one created by the hands of Annalù. With her the fiberglass becomes teeming foam, wave, butterfly wing, living, breathing and fairy entity. If Ieva Petersone takes us with her paintings to a cold and perfect world, divided into rooms with metaphysical atmospheres, where design icons become protagonists of spaces with hypnotic geometric balances, the space into which Chiara Coccorese invites us is of a completely different kind. Her photographs, constructed as collages full of objects created or recovered by her, plunge us beyond Alice's mirror, into a world where proportions are canceled out, reference points are reversed, inviting us to float in a sensation of restless bliss. And then there is Florencia Martinez, with her photographs printed on brightly colored fabrics, with her embroideries that are stories of life and with her installations where household objects, covered in fabric and soft quills, become welcoming and threatening at the same time. Ilaria Del Monte, with her girls prisoners of enchanted rooms, where mirrors reflect unreal images and objects come to life. Francesca De Pieri, who with her photographs of quarries and botanical gardens, printed on double transparent plates, offers us a new, vibrant and pulsating look at nature. And Giovanna Lacedra, with a series of dreamlike watercolors inspired by female poetry (from Sylvia Plath to Anne Sexton) and with the performance Nonsonomaistataunabambina – scheduled for the inauguration – where she stages the nightmare of badly loved childhood and the awakening to life.
INFORMATION SHEET
Collective exhibition of contemporary art
Title: The gaze on the world and The spaces of the dream
By: Alessandra Redaelli
Artists: Alessandra Baldoni, Brigitta Rossetti, Chiara Albertoni, Claudia Scarsella, Cristina Iotti, Elisa Rossi, Linda Carrara, Liliana Cecchin, Loredana Galante, Marica Fasoli, Marika Vicari, Marina Giannobi, Marina Previtali, Tina Sgrò – Adele Ceraudo, Alice Colombo, Annalù, Chiara Coccorese, Federica Gonnelli, Florencia Martinez, Francesca De Pieri, Giovanna Lacedra, Jara Marzulli, Ieva Petersone, Ilaria Del Monte
Performance: Giovanna Lacedra – Massimo Festi
Installation by: Alessandra Redaelli and Vania Elettra Tam
PUBLIC INFO
Pirola Palace
P.zza della Repubblica 1 (corner with Vicolo Filippo Corridoni)
20064 Gorgonzola – MI
www.palazzopirola.it
INAUGURATION:
Saturday 18 October at 6pm
TIMES:
Friday 4.00pm/7.00pm – Saturday and Sunday 10.00am/12.00pm – 4.00pm/7.00pm
FREE ENTRY
CATALOG:
“Feminine, plural: The gaze on the world” will be on display
“Feminine, plural: The spaces of dreams” will be on display from November 22nd at the Biffi Arte Gallery in Piacenza
EXHIBITION ORGANIZED BY:
Biffi Arte Gallery – P.zza Sant’Antonino – Via Chiapponi 39 – 29121 Piacenza
Info: tel 0523.1720408 – www.biffiarte.it
MEDIA PARTNER:
Frattura Scomposta contemporary art magazine – www.fratturascomposta.it
PRESS OFFICE:
Angela Ianni – Biffi Arte Gallery – tel 0523.1720408 – gallery@biffarte.it –www.biffiarte.it
