TRANZITNI PROSTORI ZA MOBILNE IDENTITETE / TRANSIT SPACES FOR MOBILE IDENTITIES

Umetniki / Artists: Navid Azimi Sajadi, Alessandra Calò, Davide Maria Coltro, Nicola Evangelisti, Armida Gandini, Carla Iacono, Saba Masoumian, Mona Lisa Tina
Gostujoča kustosinja / Guest curator: Livia Savorelli

V izjemnem okolju Ptujskega gradu, ki se nahaja na hribu, povezanem z bujno okoliško pokrajino, sem iskala dialog s prostorom, ki je zasnovan kot križišče prehodov (ljudi, kultur, artefaktov) in kot prostor ohranjanja izjemnih zakladov, prostor prehoda, ki v bogastvu svojih zbirk in predmetov, ki jih hrani, obnavlja sedimentiran spomin na tiste, ki so ga naseljevali in iz njega naredili dragoceno skrinjo, ki jo lahko danes obiščemo.Številne vizualne sugestije, ki prihajajo iz njenih bogatih prostorov, so v mnogih primerih povod za dialog s sodobnimi umetniškimi deli osmih umetnikov, izbranih za razstavo Prostori tranzita za mobilne identitete: galerija portretov srednje- in vzhodnoevropskih plemičev in plemkinj, turkerije, tapiserije s prizori iz Odiseje, zbirka zgodovinskih glasbil.Dialoga s prostorom ni mogoče ločiti od razmisleka o identiteti, ki jo oblikujejo potovanja, spoznavanje novih ozemelj, srečevanje različnih kultur in telo kot meja.

In the extraordinary setting of the Ptuj Castle, situated on a hill that dialogues with the lush surrounding landscape, I sought a dialogue with the space both conceived as a crossroads of passages (of people, cultures, artefacts) and as a place of conservation of extraordinary treasures, a space of transit that restores in the richness of its collections, of the objects preserved here, the sedimented memory of those who inhabited it and made it the precious casket that can be visited today.The many visual suggestions that come from its rich rooms are in many cases the pretext that has triggered the dialogue with the contemporary art works of the eight artists selected for the exhibition Spaces of Transit for Mobile Identities: the gallery of portraits of Central and Eastern European noblemen and gentlewomen, the turqueries, the tapestries with scenes from the Odyssey, the collection of historical musical instruments.The dialogue with space cannot be separated from a reflection on identity shaped by travel, by getting to know new territories, by the encounter between different cultures, and on the body as a borderland.

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Navid Azimi Sajadi (Teheran, 1982) se je slikarstva učil na Fakulteti za arhitekturo Univerze Azad v Teheranu in na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Rimu. Leta 2009 je prejel nagrado Amedea Modiglianija, po magisteriju iz večmedijskega kiparstva na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Rimu pa je leta 2013 sodeloval na IX. šanghajskem bienalu. Leta 2018 je osvojil IX. izdajo nagrade Combat v sekciji za risbo in grafiko ter sodeloval pri projektu Most, okolje 1 v Muzeju sodobne umetnosti MACRO v Rimu. Maja 2019 je prejel nagrado Viero za sodobno umetnost. Od leta 2012 pripravlja razstave in instalacije v različnih institucijah in muzejih v Iranu, Združenih arabskih emiratih, Turčiji in Angliji. Njegovo delo odraža osebno izkušnjo med dvema kulturama, zahodno in bližnjevzhodno, starodavno in sodobno. Z medkulturnimi kodami manipulira in ustvarja podobe, katerih oblike, povezane s spomini, ustvarjajo metaforično okolje, v katerem lahko gledalci povežejo številne pomene, označevalce časa in prostora.

Navid Azimi Sajadi (Tehran 1982) trained in painting at the Faculty of Architecture of Azad University in Tehran and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In 2009, he won the Amedeo Modigliani Prize and after obtaining a Master of Fine Art in MultiMedia Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, he participated in the IX Shanghai Biennale in 2013. In 2018 he won the IX Edition of the Combat Prize in the drawing and graphics section and participated in the project The Bridge, environment 1 at the MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome. In May 2019, he won the Viero Prize for contemporary art. Since 2012, he has been making exhibitions and installations in various institutions and museums in Iran, UAE, Turkey and England. His work reflects his personal experience between two cultures, Western and Middle Eastern, ancient and contemporary. Cross-cultural codes are manipulated to create images whose shapes, linked to memories, create a metaphorical environment in which viewers can connect a wide range of meanings, markers of time and space.

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Alessandra Calò (Taranto, 1977), umetnica in fotografinja, že od začetka svoje kariere eksperimentira z uporabo novih jezikov, ki ji omogočajo, da se poglobi v vprašanja, povezana s spominom, identiteto in samim jezikom fotografije. Za njeno raziskovanje sta značilni ponovna prilastitev in reinterpretacija arhivskega gradiva s pomočjo starih tehnik tiskanja zunaj fotoaparata.Njegova dela so bila razstavljena na prestižnih mednarodnih razstavah in festivalih, med drugim na: Circulation(s) Festival de la jeune photographie européenne (Pariz); Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie (Kanada), Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival (Združeni arabski emirati); Fotografia Europea, Festival Philosophie, Photo d’Aix, Photaumnales (Francija); XIV Giornata del Contemporaneo.Nekatera njegova dela so bila objavljena v specializiranih revijah in pridobljena v zasebne zbirke, fundacije in muzeje, kot so: Collezione Maramotti, Musei Civici di Reggio Emilia, Museo della Tonnara di Favignana e Formica; Fondazione Artphilein (Lugano, Švica); MoMA in The Met Museum (New York).

Alessandra Calò (Taranto, 1977), artist and photographer, has been experimenting since the beginning of her career with the use of new languages that allow her to delve into themes linked to memory, identity and the language of photography itself. Her research is characterised by the reappropriation and reinterpretation of archive materials through ancient off-camera printing techniques.
Her works have been exhibited in prestigious international exhibitions and festivals, including: Circulation(s) Festival de la jeune photographie européenne (Paris); Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie (Canada), Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival (United Arab Emirates); Fotografia Europea, Festival Philosophie, Photo d’Aix, Photaumnales (France); XIV Giornata del Contemporaneo.
Some of her works have been published in specialised magazines and acquired in private collections, foundations and museums, such as: Collezione Maramotti, Musei Civici di Reggio Emilia, Museo della Tonnara di Favignana e Formica; Fondazione Artphilein (Lugano, Switzerland); MoMA and The Met Museum (New York).

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Davide Maria Coltro (Verona, 1967), umetnik in raziskovalec, živi in dela med Milanom in jezerom Maggiore.Že več kot 25 let razmišlja o izraznem potencialu zaslona, pri tem pa zavzema analitičen in procesno usmerjen odnos. Njegovi projekti spreminjajo ustvarjanje, razširjanje in uresničevanje umetnosti. Rezultat teh študij, ki so se začele konec devetdesetih let, je relacijska platforma brez primere, ki jo avtor uporablja za ustvarjanje in razširjanje svojega elektronskega slikarstva. Odnos z zgodovino umetnosti in slikarskimi žanri sta temelja njegovih raziskav; sam ta dela opredeljuje kot „slikarstvo onkraj materije“, ki živi na tehnološkem platnu ali Quadro Mediale in sliko vrača v izkušnjo časa in prostora, nekakšno bilokalizacijo, v kateri umetnik deluje na delo, ne da bi bil prisoten. Med nacionalnimi in mednarodnimi institucijami, ki so gostile njegova dela, so: Mart v Roveretu, Galleria di Trento, GAM Galleria d’arte Moderna Achille Forti v Veroni, SPSI Art Museum v Šanghaju; ZKM v Karlsruheju; Italijanski inštitut v San Franciscu, GASC Villa Clerici v Milanu, Collezione Paolo IV v Brescii, Museo dei Bronzi Dorati v Pergoli, Fondazione Lercaro v Bologni, Museo MAGA v Gallaratu, Fondazione Calderara, Vacciago.

Davide Maria Coltro (Verona, 1967) artist and researcher, lives and works between Milan and Lake Maggiore.He has been reflecting on the expressive potential of the screen for over 25 years, adopting an analytical and process-oriented attitude. His projects modify the creation, diffusion and fruition of art. The result of these studies, which began in the late 1990s, is an unprecedented relational platform that the author uses for the creation and dissemination of his electronic painting. The relationship with the history of art and the genres of painting are cornerstones of his research; he himself defines these works as ‘painting beyond matter’ that live on the technological canvas or Quadro Mediale, restoring the image to the experience of time and space, a sort of bilocation in which the artist acts on the work without being present. Among the national and international institutions that have hosted his work are: Mart in Rovereto, Galleria di Trento, GAM Galleria d’arte Moderna Achille Forti in Verona, SPSI Art Museum in Shanghai; ZKM in Karlsruhe; the Italian Institute of San Francisco, GASC Villa Clerici in Milan, Collezione Paolo IV in Brescia, Museo dei Bronzi Dorati in Pergola, Fondazione Lercaro in Bologna, Museo MAGA in Gallarate, Fondazione Calderara, Vacciago.

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Nicola Evangelisti (Bologna,1972) je diplomiral iz kiparstva na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Bologni.Evangelistijevo umetniško pot povezuje osebna uporaba umetne svetlobe kot izraznega sredstva in predmeta razmisleka. Leta 2000 je prejel mednarodno nagrado Guglielma Marconija. Njegovo delo Big Bang je postalo del zbirke Targetti Light Art Collection in je razstavljeno v Muzeju umetnosti Chelsea v New Yorku, Centru za sodobno umetnost Grad Ujazdowski v Varšavi, MAK na Dunaju in MUAR v Moskvi.

Od leta 2006 je svojo poetiko razširil na socialne teme, povezane z vojno in terorizmom. Začelo se je več ciklov del, ki prikazujejo napise iz tulcev nabojev, med njimi tudi YOU ARE NOT SAFE, del stalne zbirke muzeja P.O.C. Galila v Bruslju. Leta 2009 je izvedel urbano instalacijo Light Blade, ki je zdaj del zbirke muzeja GAM v Milanu.
Leta 2013 je začel poglobljeno raziskovanje svete teme s sklicevanjem na metafiziko srednjeveške svetlobe. Od leta 2016 ustvarja okoljske svetlobne instalacije za bienale svetlobne umetnosti v Mantovi v palači Palazzo Ducale, pri čemer se osredotoča na pomene simbolov v starodavnih religijah.

Nicola Evangelisti (Bologna,1972) graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.Evangelisti’s artistic career is united by a personal use of artificial light as both an expressive medium and an object of reflection. In 2000, he won the Guglielmo Marconi International Prize. His work Big Bang became part of the Targetti Light Art Collection and is exhibited at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, the MAK in Vienna and the MUAR in Moscow.

From 2006 he broadened his poetics to include social themes related to war and terrorism. He began several cycles of works depicting inscriptions made of shell casings, including YOU ARE NOT SAFE, part of the permanent collection of Galila’s P.O.C. museum in Brussels. In 2009, he realised the urban installation Light Blade, now part of the collection of the GAM in Milan.
In 2013, he inaugurated an in-depth exploration of the sacred theme with references to the metaphysics of medieval light. Since 2016, he has been creating environmental light installations for the Biennale Light Art in Mantua at the Palazzo Ducale focusing on the meanings of symbols in ancient religions.

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Armida Gandini se je rodila leta 1968 v Brescii. Živi in dela v Verolanuovi (BS).
V središču njenega dela je tema kulturne dediščine, ki jo opisuje v različnih in dopolnjujočih se jezikih. Raziskovanje teme skozi različne perspektive je ugoden način za izvedbo razmisleka, ki postane instalacija v prostoru. V preteklih letih se ukvarja s temami, povezanimi s človekom, kot so identiteta, potovanja in meje, v scenariju, ki postaja vse bolj zapleten tako z družbenega kot antropološkega vidika. Odnos z literaturo in filmom ostaja stalen, saj predstavlja pomembno in dialektično sugestijo.
Sodelovala je na umetniških rezidencah v Evropi, na Tajskem in v Kamerunu. Leta 2009 je bil projekt Noli me tangere izbran za nagrado Gallarate in postal del zbirke MAGA, leta 2018 pa je video Pulses prejel nagrado Pavla VI. za sodobno umetnost. Leta 2022 je založba Vanillaedizioni izdala katalog Mi guardo fuori, posvečen kulturnim materam, ob njeni zadnji samostojni razstavi La terra e le fantasticherie pa je pri založbi Skira izšla monografija Armida Gandini.

Armida Gandini was born in Brescia in 1968. She lives and works in Verolanuova (BS).
At the centre of her work is the theme of cultural heritage, declined through different and complementary languages. Exploring a subject through various perspectives is a congenial way to implement a reflection that becomes an installation in space. Over the years, she has tackled themes related to the human, such as identity, travel, and borders, in a scenario that is becoming increasingly complex both socially and anthropologically. The relationship with literature and cinema remains constant, representing an important and dialectical suggestion.
She has participated in artist residencies in Europe, Thailand and Cameroon. In 2009 the project Noli me tangere was selected for the Gallarate Prize, becoming part of the MAGA collection and in 2018 the video Pulses won the Paul VI Prize for contemporary art. In 2022 Vanillaedizioni published the catalogue Mi guardo fuori dedicated to the mothers of culture and, on the occasion of her last solo exhibition La terra e le fantasticherie, the monograph Armida Gandini was published by Skira.

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Carla Iacono živi in ustvarja v Genovi ter uporablja različne medije, med drugim fotografijo, kolaž in instalacijo.
Njeno delo, osredotočeno na temo telesa in metamorfoze, analizira predvsem občutljivo obdobje mladostništva in njegove „obrede prehoda“, ki veljajo za izjemen trenutek rasti, v katerem je treba doseči lastno identiteto. Stalna prisotnost avtobiografskih elementov, kot je uporaba hčerke kot subjekta, poudarja njeno upodobitev in jo naredi za konkreten simbol občutljive poti, ki med dvomi in tesnobami vodi vsakega mladostnika do zrelosti.
Njena dela so bila objavljena v številnih razstavnih katalogih v Italiji in tujini ter so prisotna v pomembnih javnih in zasebnih zbirkah, med drugim v Muzeju sodobne umetnosti informacij in fotografije (Musinf) v Senigaliji, Nacionalnem muzeju filma v Torinu in Muzeju sodobne umetnosti Villa Croce v Genovi.
Umetnost Carle Iacono je „konceptualna“ in uporablja mešanico sanj, ironije, dvoumnosti in fantazije, da bi „razkrila“ fragmente spomina ali nezavednega, ki se v vidni obliki ponovno pojavijo iz globin nevidnega.

Carla Iacono lives and works in Genoa, using different media including photography, collage and installation.
Her work, focused on the themes of the body and metamorphosis, mainly analyses the delicate period of adolescence and its ‘rites of passage’, seen as an extraordinary moment of growth in which the effort to achieve one’s own identity is placed. The constant presence of autobiographical elements, such as the use of her daughter as a subject, emphasise her representation and make her a concrete symbol of the delicate path that, amid doubts and anxieties, leads every adolescent to maturity.
Her works have been published in numerous exhibition catalogues in Italy and abroad and are present in important public and private collections, including the Musinf (Museum of Modern Art of Information and Photography) in Senigallia, the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Villa Croce in Genoa.
Carla Iacono’s art is ‘conceptual’ and uses a mixture of dream, irony, ambiguity and fantasy to ‘unveil’ fragments of memory or the unconscious that resurface in visible form from the depths of the invisible.

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Saba Masoumian se je rodila leta 1982 v Teheranu, zdaj pa živi in dela v Genovi. Študirala je slikarstvo na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Bologni.
Zastopata jo galeriji Lara in Rino Costa (AL) in XVA (Dubaj). Njena dela so del več javnih zbirk: Museo Civico Ernesto e Teresa Della Torre v Trevigliu, Musei Civici v Monzi, Cartiere del Polesine v Adrii ter zasebnih zbirk Pietra Luigija Draghija v Benetkah in Saeb Eigner v Londonu. Med glavnimi nagradami: nagrado Giovani na bienalu v Monzi leta 2015, nagrado za umetnost mesta Treviglio in nagrado za vizualne umetnosti San Fedele leta 2016.
V delih, izbranih za razstavo, se dekorativni, arhitekturni in simbolni elementi perzijske civilizacije združujejo z nenehnim prizadevanjem ženske figure, da bi si povrnila svobodo, ki ji je odvzeta.

Saba Masoumian was born in Tehran in 1982 and now lives and works in Genoa. She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.
She is represented by Lara and Rino Costa Gallery (AL) and XVA Gallery (Dubai). Her works are part of several public collections: Museo Civico Ernesto e Teresa Della Torre in Treviglio, the Musei Civici in Monza, the Cartiere del Polesine in Adria and the private collections of Pietro Luigi Draghi in Venice and Saeb Eigner in London. Major awards include: Monza Biennale Giovani Prize in 2015, the City of Treviglio Art Prize and the San Fedele Visual Arts Prize in 2016.
In the works chosen for the exhibition, decorative, architectural and symbolic elements of Persian civilisation merge with the female figure’s constant quest to regain the freedom that is denied to her.

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Mona Lisa Tina se je rodila leta 1977 v kraju Francavilla Fontana (Brindisi). Živi in dela v Bologni.Je vizualna umetnica, likovna terapevtka, učiteljica in didaktična referentka triletnega izobraževalnega programa „NUOVE ARTI TERAPIE“ – Vizualne in uprizoritvene umetnosti – podružnica Bologna.
Mona Lisa Tina v središče vseh svojih umetniških raziskav postavlja Telo kot prostor nenehnih psihičnih in duševnih transformativnih procesov. Njene akcije predlagajo simbolne rituale, v okviru katerih se kaže „alternativna“ telesnost, ki se osvobaja standardiziranih modelov lepote. Njeno telo tako postane prostor srečevanja, poslušanja in resnične interakcije z Drugim.
Razstavljala je v različnih muzejih v Italiji in tujini ter v galerijah in prostorih za raziskovanje sodobne umetnosti, med drugim v: Umetniška rezidenca – italijansko veleposlaništvo, Bern (Švica), Kunstlerhaus (Hannover), MACRO Testaccio Museum/Asilo (Rim), Carlo Zauli Museum, Faenza (RA), nm>gallery (München).

Mona Lisa Tina was born in Francavilla Fontana (Brindisi) in 1977. She lives and works in Bologna. She is a visual artist, art therapist, teacher and didactic referent of the Three-Year Course ‘NUOVE ARTI TERAPIE’ – Visual and Performing Arts – Bologna branch.
Mona Lisa Tina places the Body at the centre of all her artistic investigation as a place of continuous psychic and psychic transformative processes. Her actions propose symbolic rituals within which an ‘alternative’ physicality is exhibited, one that breaks free from standardised models of beauty. Her body thus becomes a space for meeting, listening and real interaction with the Other.
She has exhibited in different museums in Italy and abroad and in galleries and contemporary art research spaces, including: Residence of the Arts – Italian Embassy, Bern (Switzerland), Kunstlerhaus (Hannover), MACRO Testaccio Museum/Asilo (Rome), Carlo Zauli Museum, Faenza (RA), nm>gallery (Munich).

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6. JUL 2024 / 19.00

dvorišče Ptujskega gradu / Ptuj Castle Courtyard