Showing posts with label Macro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Macro. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

THE NIGHT ILLUMINATES THE NIGHT-FROM TODAY AT MACRO TESTACCIO

Rafael Y. Herman shoots without knowing the landscape or seeing his subject, revealing an imaginary reality in his work. Herman pursues his nocturnal research through portraits of three different environs: the rich and spiritually suggestive Forests of the Galilee, the fecund wild flowers and fields of the Judean Mountains, and the Mediterranean Sea. His images invite us to discuss the invisible or, as the artist sometimes likes to describe it, the “non-seen” (which is the light itself). Grappling with the unseen is an age-old quest - philosophy, religion, psychology, quantum mechanics - all postulate on what is, what is observed and what is true.
 Herman’s work exists within these realms and queries essential questions about our experience on earth.Working at night in full darkness, with the medium of photography to document his research, Herman produces a created reality, offering to his public as the Old Master painters did, ideal landscapes that only exist in their art. The exhibition focuses on a five-year dialogue the artist established with Old Master painters who depicted the Holy Land, a land that they had never seen. Like these painters, Herman does not see the landscape either; his works are a result of idealisation and imagination. He often questions: “If it is not seen, does it exist?” And, “if it exists, in what way? Is it exactly the way we see it in everyday light? What is the role of light in existence?”
The Night Illuminates The Night
curated by Giorgia Calò and Stefano Rabolli Pansera
MACRO Testaccio Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, 4 – Roma Padiglione A
January 24-March 26, 2017

 Rafael Y. Herman scatta senza conoscere il paesaggio o vedere il soggetto, rivelando così nei suoi lavori una realtà immaginaria. Herman persegue la sua ricerca notturna attraverso ritratti di tre diversi ambienti: la ricca e spiritualmente suggestiva Foresta della Galilea, i campi fecondi e i fiori selvaggi dei Monti della Giudea, e il Mar Mediterraneo. Le sue immagini ci invitano a riflettere su l’invisibile o, come l’artista usa definirlo, il “non visto” (che è la luce stessa). La lotta con l’invisibile è una questione arcaica, affrontata non solo dall’arte ma anche dalla filosofia, dalla religione, dalla psicologia, dalla meccanica quantistica, che hanno cercato nel corso dei secoli di definire cosa è reale e cosa invece è solo percepito. Il lavoro di Herman persiste entro questi scenari e pone questioni fondamentali sulla nostra esperienza sulla Terra.
Lavorando di notte in piena oscurità, con il solo mezzo fotografico atto a documentare la sua ricerca, Herman produce quindi una realtà “ricreata”, offrendo al suo pubblico paesaggi ideali che esistono solo nelle sue opere, così come fecero i grandi maestri.
L’esposizione si concentra su un lavoro durato cinque anni. In questo arco di tempo Rafael Y. Herman ha cercato di stabilire un dialogo con i grandi maestri della pittura che hanno rappresentato la Terra Santa, una terra che in realtà non ebbero avuto mai modo di vedere. Come loro, Herman è messo nella condizione di non poter vedere il paesaggio perché le sue opere sono state realizzate nel buio totale e dunque sono il risultato dell’idealizzazione e dell’immaginazione. Herman ha seguito la sua ricerca basandosi su alcuni quesiti: “Se non si vede, esiste davvero?” E ancora “Se esiste, in che modo? È esattamente lo stesso modo in cui vediamo le cose con la luce di ogni giorno? Qual è il ruolo della luce nell’esistenza?”

The Night Illuminates The Night
a cura di Giorgia Calò e Stefano Rabolli Pansera
 MACRO Testaccio Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, 4 – Roma Padiglione A
 25 gennaio – 26 marzo 2017

Montem 12

Nocte Decus


Imaginarium Silvarum

Somnum Rubrum

Aquam Superiorem

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

DIGITAL LIFE 2014>>PLAY

Digital life >>Play
La Pelanda-Macro-Testaccio-Roma
Sunday, November 30: Closing Party Roma Europa Festival
This is the post for those who lost Digital Life 2014

Musical sculptures, inspired by sound and activated by computers instead of the invention of a musicians.
An exploratory voyage into the relationship between art and technology, through research and the production of art. This journey has demonstrated and still testifies the complexity and wealth of our ever-changing universe in which creative experimentation has to measure itself constantly against technological and scientific innovation.
It is precisely this dynamic interaction between the spectator and the art work which gives life to a new soundscape, creating contemporaneously a more intimate and shared ambience.
The works presented go well beyond the know horizons of research into sound considered as one the expressive languages of digital art. Indeed, now we have complex machines which reinvent the very concept of  the "musical instrument".
This interaction does not merely involve modifying the sound environment in real time; it consists in generating a series of dynamic relations between the exhibition space, the spectator, and the sound to create a dream-like and suggestive atmosphere.
Concrete object, often made from simple materials such as metal, wood or other primary elements like water and light, are transformed through the invention of special software into complex, interactive musical instrument, capable of producing harmonic or discordant sounds.
A Concerto for machines in which presence of the spectator is required, not only as a spectator and beneficiary, but as the actor or better still, the musician to play these hybrid, innovative instruments.



                                               Pietro Pirelli - Gianpietro Grossi- Arpa di Luce
11 green laser rays which follow parallel trajectories for over 25 metres. A Plexiglas plectrum attached to a pendulum hanging from an invisible pivot brushes against the beams of light, generating an infinite and unending melody.
                                             Veaceslav Druta - Balançoire
The music is reproduced by a swing suspended from two large mechanical wheels. The motion of the large wheels sets a series of guitar strings vibration which produce harmonies. It is the swinging movement of the spectator that "plays" this instrument. The pitch depends on the weight of the spectator while the volume varies according to the oscillation's velocity.

Léonore Mercier - Le Damassama
Le Damassama is an amphitheater of Tibetan bells, a sound installation which transforms the spectator into an orchestra conductor. By interacting with a series of sensor, the spectator's gestures make the bells sound and creates a personalized soundtrack.

Cod.Act -André&Michel Décosterd - Cycloid-E
Cycloid-e  is a ubular metal segments pendulum that reproduces sounds through a rotating movement reacting speakers. A real cinematic choreography. Cycloid-e traces a series of sonorous orbits, creating kinetic Cosmic Ballet.

Zahra Poonawala - Tutti
The installation consists of a wall of fixed loudspeakers and each of those reproduce a background noise at different volumes and pitches, a series of mobile speakers which act as "soloists", reacting to spectator's movement.

Heewon Lee - 108
The sound is produced from various carillons and each character corresponds to a musical note. Thus, as words and phrases are formed on the screen, they are accompanied by a singular musical composition.

Alexandre Burton_Artificiel - Impacts
Visitors are invited to approach the sculpture to experiment with the different forms of this visual and sound installation. The proximity of the visitor activates a series of pulsating, luminous energetic bundles of variable intensity generated by the reels' interaction with the rays on the plate of glass, Imacts invites the spectator to reflect on the power and danger of electromagnetic energy.



                                               


Monday, November 12, 2012

WAITING FOR DIGITAL LIFE

Il 15 novembre avrà inizio a Roma per il Romaeuropa festival Digital Life 2012 – Human Connections, terza edizione della rassegna dedicata alle connessioni fra linguaggi artistici contemporanei e nuove tecnologie, che   si articola in tre spazi: l’edificio ex GIL di Trastevere, il MACRO Testaccio e l’Opificio Telecom Italia, sede della Fondazione Romaeuropa. L’iniziativa intende indagare, attraverso un’ampia mostra - divisa in due sezioni - e una nutrita serie di appuntamenti, le relazioni fra arti visive e arti sceniche e il modo in cui, tramite le tecniche digitali e i nuovi media, gli artisti della scena migrano negli spazi espositivi e gli artisti visivi irrompono sui palcoscenici.

On November 15th in Rome for Romaeuropa Festival will start Digital Life 2012 - Human Connections, the third edition of the exhibition dedicated to the connections between contemporary artistic languages ​​and new technologies, and is divided into three spaces: the building of the former GIL in Trastevere , MACRO Testaccio and the Factory Telecom Italy, home of the Foundation Romaeuropa. The initiative aims to investigate, through a large exhibition - divided into two sections - and a large number of events, the relationship between the visual arts and performing arts and the way in which, through digital technologies and new media, the artists of the scene migrate to the exhibition and visual artists burst on stage.


shilpagupta.com

lechmajewski.com

francescamontinaro.com

overlabproject.it

www.sprovieri.com/artists/daniele-puppi

www.quietensemble.com

zbigvision.com


paulthorel.com


Monday, October 15, 2012

BECOME A COLLECTOR, AFFORDABLE ART FAIR ARRIVES IN ROME!

Quest' anno per la prima volta Affordable Art Fair arriva a Roma, dal  26 al 28 ottobre alla Pelanda del Macro a Testaccio. La formula delle Affordable Art Fair è semplice ed unica: un ambiente rilassato e non convenzionale e molta arte contemporanea di qualità. Ad Affordable Art Fair tutti possono trovare qualcosa che rispecchia i propri gusti, indipendentemente dalle proprie conoscenze artistiche e soprattutto a portata di tutte le tasche! Il tetto ai prezzi di 5.000 euro, e l’obbligo di esporli per tutte le opere assicura che  il pubblico possa sapere cosa può e non può permettersi.  In fiera ci saranno varie  opere d’arte, da stampe di noti artisti, a sculture di giovani e sconosciuti. Tutti noi possiamo diventare dei collezionisti!

This year for the first time Affordable Art Fair arrives in Rome: a fun three-day event hosting a wealth of galleries and a huge array of contemporary art, the Rome Fair will be taking place between the 26–28 October in La Pelanda, at Macro Museum, Rome, Testaccio area.
The  concept is simple, yet unique: an inspiring and friendly atmosphere in which you can find thousands of original paintings, prints, sculpture and photography all under one roof, and all under €5,000. The work of young, emerging artists hangs alongside some of the biggest household names, while our Young Talents Exhibition provides a chance to snap up a future masterpiece. Everyone of us can become a collectors!
 
 
Russell Chapmann. The Art Of Movement. Foto, lambda print, alu-dibond, epoxy. 80x60cm. Acquestarte
Margherita Martinelli. In volo. Mixed media on canvas. 750€. Galleria movimento

Michela Crisostomi. Nudo con panneggio. Acrilico su tela. PalmaArte

Frances Lansing. Boy, ice cream, dog - 1985. Stampa digitale. 26.5x40cm. Artistocratic.

Veronica Green. Glory box. Mixed media on canvas. Galleria movimento
John Costa. Senza Titolo. Fotografia. Galleria Palma Arte.
 
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