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Masseria Torre Coccaro > 23th October 2010
Ottobrata - Valentina Vetturi e Silvia Giambrone
curated by Galleria Bonomo
The project Ottobrata comes from an idea of the curators Lino Sinibaldi and Antonella Spano, with the aim to create strict relations of reciprocity between the artists and the local context, through the development of new routes of reflections and interpretations of the traditional places of the Apulia's countryside, by inviting Valentina Vetturi and Silvia Giambrone to spend a period of residency at the Masseria Torre Coccaro. Both the artists experimented a new methodology of communication with the place and the people who live it daily, with a focus on a distended perception of the space and the time. La Macchina del Tempo (The Time Machine), the work of Valentina Vetturi, is composed by an installation and a publication, which births from a sense of disorientation generated by the possibility of a multiplied and decelerated time, and from the interaction with the workers of the Masseria Torre Coccaro. If the work of Valentina Vetturi starts from an inner data in order to be expanded to a collective investigation, in the work of Silvia Giambrone the dazzling white of the external light, amplified by the reflect of the white lime which characterized the Apulia's architectures, wraps the inner dimension of her Diario Bianco (White Diary).
Valentina Vetturi births on 1979 in Reggio Calabria, lives and works in Bari.
After the degree in Law, she did the Master in Art, Landscape and Architecture at the Politecnico in Milan, and starts her investigation on the social and political relations among individuals and collectivity in the contemporary time. Her interventions pushes the ordinary perception of the daily life, through the insertion of external elements which aim to disturb the flux of the normality and its usual perception, the interaction and the interrogation of the audience. On 2008, together with Anna Lovecchio, founded Radice Quadrata, an association which works on the development of artistic and curatorial languages, and in occasion of the 54° Venice Biennial presented Un Viaggio (A Trip), an environmental and performative intervention which is the outcome of the meeting between the artist and a young woman from Georgia, thourgh a trip started in Grecia, through Turkey and ended in Georgia, a project conceived for the Norbert Space, promoted by the Galleria Bonomo of Bari, with the support of Masseria Torre Coccaro and the Romano Exhibit.
She is among the founders of 26cc Artist Space of Rome, where between the 2007 and the 2008 lead the seminar Art and Feminism, at the course of Phenomenology of the Contemporary Arts of the Prof. Cecilia Casorati at the Academy of Fine Arts.
Her installations, videos and performances investigates the individual dimension, as body and soul, as woman and artist, in relation with the context in which they're included. In her works the audience is induced to reflect on the main concepts of which our daily life is pervaded, like the desire, the power and the social inhibition, by analyzing the generic languages which often avoid an authentic vision of the reality.
On 2006 she has been selected for the Young Artists Prize promoted by the Agnello Foundation of Turin and on 2009 she received the Epson FAR Prize of Venice.
www.silviagiambrone.com
topics: residency reciprocity routes videos space time investigation communication architectures installation inner dimension normality interaction perception languages performance feminism greece turkey georgia savelletri venice biennial