GAIALIGHT CHANNEL
Independent Reality TV Channel,
© Gaialight 2011. All rights reserved
http://www.youtube.com/user/gaialight
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Electron Salon
Curated by Rex Bruce
featuring Gaialight with "Mass Surveillance 2011"
November 10 - December 2
Reception Thursday November 10 , 7-9pm
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
102 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
lacda.com
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The Others
Rolling Stone opening party 3 november - 9pm
The Others Show 4-6 november - 6pm-1am
Le Nuove
Via Paolo Borsellino 3
Turin
(Italy)
www.theothersfair.com
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FOIANOFOTOGRAFIA 2011
Multimedia curated by
Chiara Oggioni Tiepolo and Eva Zamboni
November, 5 - 6, 2011
Galleria Furio Del Furia
Sala della Carboneria - Foiano della Chiana
Arezzo (Italy)
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curated by
Gaialight and Tiziana Faraoni
October, 8 - 23, 2011
Inaugurazione/Opening Reception
Friday 7 October 2011
ISA - Istituto Superiore Antincendi
Via del Commercio 13 - Roma
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curated by
Elisabeth Biondi and Enrico Bossan
May, 11 - 15, 2011
NEW YORK PHOTOFESTIVAL 2011
The Multimedia Room
DUMBO ARTS CENTER - 30 Washington Avenue - BROOKLYN, NY
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THE MAGAZINE - Issue #5
THE MAGAZINE - Issue #4
a cura di
Giulia Collina e Tiziana Gazzini
3 dicembre 2010 - 29 gennaio 2011
inaugurazione Giovedì 2 dicembre, ore 18.30
Galleria Don Chisciotte
Via Angelo Brunetti, 21 a/b, 00186 Roma
tel. 06 3224515
info@galleriadonchisciotte.com
www.galleriadonchisciotte.com
La mostra è organizzata in collaborazione con l’Associazione Culturale
La coda dell’occhio
www.lacodadellocchio.com
Catalogo /in galleria
testo di Tiziana Gazzini
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THE MAGAZINE - Issue #3
THE MAGAZINE
Io Donna - Corriere della Sera #49
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a cura di
Simona Botti e Tiziana Gazzini
14 maggio-13 giugno 2009
inaugurazione 13 maggio, ore 18.30
Galleria Fontanella Borghese
Via di Fontanella Borghese, 31 – 00186 Roma
tel. 06 6876127 – 6873741
fax 06 6876127
galleriaf.borghese@libero.it
www.galleriafontanellaborghese.com
Catalogo
a cura dell’Associazione Culturale
La coda dell’occhio
www.lacodadellocchio.com
Testi di
Tiziana Gazzini e Piero Spila
Tiziana Gazzini
Foyer of Teatro Valle
Aprile 15 -26, 2009
Villa Torlonia Park
Aprile 19, 2009
11.30 AM -1.00 PM
Production:
Associazione Culturale Onlus La coda dell'occhio
ETI - Ente Teatrale Italiano
Patronage:
Comune di Roma - Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e della Comunicazione
Tiziana Gazzini
Opening reception
Tuesday 20 January 2009, 5.30 - 8 pm
10b Photography Gallery
Via San Lorenzo da Brindisi, 10b
The show will run
from January 21 through February 22 - 2009
DRISSIEN GALERIE
June 5 - July 5, 2008
mon 3pm - 6pm
tue-fri 11am-2pm/3pm-7pm
sat 11am-2pm
Opening reception
Thursday 5 June, 7 pm
KUNSTPRAXIS der SIEMENS AG
Opening reception
Tuesday 3 June, 6 pm
Curator:
Tiziana Gazzini
Proposed and organized by
La coda dell'occhio - Cultural Association-Italy
Pro Arte e V. - Cultural Association-Germany
Supported by:
Planet LIfe Economy Foundation

5th INTERNATIONAL MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR OF BOLZANO
Drissien Galerie - Munich, Stand 21
May 22 - 25, 2008

Homage to Tribeca Film Festival
Tiziana Gazzini
Critical Apparatus
GK/Agence'X'
Opening reception
Thursday 24 April, 6-8 pm
Nancy Koltes at Home
31 Spring Street, New York
The show will run
from April 25 through May 24
Proposed by
Nancy Koltes and La coda dell'occhio - Cultural Association
Supported by
Italian Cultural Institute, New York

edited by Electa Mondadori
Volume Nine Contaminazioni
Gaialight with Rear Window can
(2007 - original installation: mixed media on tin can)
in Arte Contemporanea
(eleven volumes, Electa Mondadori)
Volume Nine - Contaminazioni
Chapter - Cinema
on the newstands in Italy beginning Friday February 29, 2008
with L' Espresso-Repubblica
The original installation is part of the cycle Light Treatment soon to shown in Germany for the artist's solo exhibition at the Drissien Galerie, Munich (June 5 - July 5, 2008).
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Electron Salon
November 10 - December 2, 2011
Reception Thursday November 10 , 7-9pm
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The Others
November, 4-6, 2011
Rolling Stone opening party 3 november - 9pm
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November, 5 - 6, 2011
Multimedia curated by Chiara Oggioni Tiepolo and Eva Zamboni
FOIANOFOTOGRAFIA 2011 Galleria Furio Del Furia
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CAM GIRLS MET LADIES
October, 8-23, 2011
a cura di Gaialight e Tiziana Faraoni,
ISA - Istituto Superiore Antincendi - Via del Commercio 13, Roma Inaugurazione/Opening Reception Venerdi' 7 Ottobre 2011 WHEN CAM GIRLS MET LADIES How photography comments on, distorts, or documents conditions in the world is part and parcel of its discursive practice as an art. In this sense, the two photographic series by Gaialight, Cam Girls (2011) and Met Ladies (2011), have, at first glance, nothing much in common. Yet, once the surface of the image is dealt with (and its suspected narrative content demolished) the photographic image as a type of limit becomes in itself the actual subject of these works. But image of what? As limit, images are predictable insofar as they compress and, to a certain degree, shut down and silence the origin of the image – its socio-economic origin or its reference to specific subjects or objects within the world. Franco Moretti’s great insight into the novel as a means of providing an “exit” from what there is literally no exit from – that is, the world at large – is also an extraordinary admission that the world is an immense construction of interlocking visions (an internalizing artwork built atop a very real base or ground). There are certain intellectual and ethical issues with Cam Girls, for example, that are unavoidable. The first order of inquiry in the reception of theses images is their origin in the socio-economic conundrum that induced this digital game of eroticized hide-and-seek between young women and online (presumable male) voyeurs. In the case of Met Ladies the game is of another order and another time. The time of the museum is caught in this series as a strange but very much alive art-historical time that suggests even the well-known critique of museums as mausolea is at least half wrong (and, therefore, half true). Met Ladies is art-archaeological in this sense, but it is also playing against the conventions of the museum and its preferred means of reception – the authorized linear narrative of modern art history. In producing this synoptic, photographic survey of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in selecting from within select canvases a “cut” or portion of that preferred means of reception, Gaialight has – as with Cam Girls – indulged the artistic volition of imposing a limit and in doing so engaging an unlimited formal force field within both art and photography (in Moretti’s sense a world-historical force field). This is the paradoxical nature of art and its means of producing singular moments within a larger order that reduces and refines that order. The “cut” is, therefore, analogous to a tailor taking a bolt of cloth and removing what is required to fashion a jacket or coat. In this manner the “cut” performed in the echoing corridors of the Met extracts from singular historical works of art what such works often repress through their own relationship to image as limit. In the case of Cam Girls the Internet is an important aspect of the conditions supporting the images. Yet, in the images, as limits imposed by photography, this origin is effectively neutralized or bracketed. Through the erasure of the means supporting the activities portrayed a trace is retained of the innocence and light promiscuity behind the questionable socio-economic phenomenon proper. The most obvious perspective relative to the content provided by both Cam Girls and Met Ladies is the liberation of a certain old-fashioned and out-moded term. The first sense or first temptation is to gender this term and offer it as some sort of comment on the exploitation of women. But the larger and overriding term engaged by these works is the ultimate term of endearment given to universal humankind (the nod toward Humanity proper), making these images an act and survey of the state of that quaint and old-fashioned term. In photography and painting it is axiomatic that the subject of the work often looks back at the observer, two gazes meeting. Here, however, the gaze is tripled and its three forms only meet in a fourth subject, converging on the universal subject of all Art, a somewhat forgotten subject that inhabits the internal force field of the photograph. That forgotten subject is universal subjectivity itself, and a condition or state almost always translatable to “conscience”. Gavin Keeney N.B.: As Chris Marker once said (in the film Le fond de l’air est rouge), “images sometimes tremble”. They do so because they enfold as virtuous limit (as apparent singular thing) the very image of a fragile, imperiled, and fluctuating universal subject. |
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NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL 2011
BROOKLYN BUZZ May, 11-15, 2011
The Multimedia Room
Curated by Elisabeth Biondi and Enrico Bossan DUMBO ARTS CENTER - 30 Washington Avenue, BROOKLYN, NY
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ART OF LEADERSHIP SERIES
THE MAGAZINE June 2011 - Issue 5
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ART OF LEADERSHIP SERIES
THE MAGAZINE March 2011 - Issue 4
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DARKLIGHT CHRISTMAS 2010
At the GALLERIA DON CHISCIOTTE COMUNICATO STAMPA
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Il procedimento darklight
Gaialight sceglie un soggetto e lo fotografa. NATALE SUL GOLGOTA
di Tiziana Gazzini Se il Cristo ritratto da Gaialight in Crucifixion avesse ancora il respiro per alzare la testa vedrebbe ai piedi del Golgota un albero
decorato con addobbi natalizi rossi e verdi. Capirebbe, e prima di offrirsi in sacrificio per dare all'umanità una speranza di
redenzione da tutti i peccati e i dolori del mondo, abbozzerebbe un sorriso. PRESS RELEASE
The darklight process
Gaialight selects a subject and photographs it. CHRISTMAS ON CALVARY
by Tiziana Gazzini If the Christ depicted by Gaialight in Crucifixion still had the breath to raise his head, at the base of Calvary he would see a tree decorated with red and green Christmas ornaments. He would understand and, before sacrificing himself to provide humanity with the hope of redemption of sin and pain in the world, a faint smile would appear on his face. ![]() |
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DARKLIGHT CHRISTMAS
November 2010 - Issue 3
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DARKLIGHT
October 2010 - Issue 2
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Light Residency
February-March 2010
ARTIST RESIDENCY
Gaialight is thrilled to announce her arrival on February 2, 2010, at the JOSEF AND ANNI ALBERS FOUNDATION where she will participate in the Foundation' s Artist in Residence Program from February 2 to March 31. |
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Light Yale
November 2009
My three days in and out of the Bubble
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GAIALIGHT with the exhibition
"LIGHT AMERICA" At the GALLERIA FONTANELLA BORGHESE
Two years after her move to New York, Gaialight began travelling throughout the United States, from California to the Mexican border, from Arizona to Florida, from Detroit to Las Vegas, New York to Washington with Scarlett O'Hara, Hollywood's most popular and complex icon. In her pop version (a cardboard standup purchased on the internet) the protagonist of Gone with the Wind is once again witness to that delicate moment of transition that is common to the eve of great appointments with history. During the long, presidential electoral campaign Gaialight captured visions, themes and events, and "lightened" them, as usual, through her particular technique of mixed media. Thanks to a narrative idea and an original and sophisticated artistic expression, a photo reportage of contemporary America was transformed into a cycle of works that goes beyond the chronicle to propose a symbolic interpretation of America today which is similar to that represented by the heroine of Gone with the Wind: beautiful, strong, proud, tenacious, combative, profoundly tied to the land, but also fragile, contradictory, spoiled, loved, and hated. And above all, capable of re-inventing herself. Observing up close the America of prairies and Zabriskie Point, of casinos and haunts for men only, of surf and the industrial ruins of Detroit, but also that of Wall Street and Fifth Avenue, Gaialight and Scarlett O'Hara's cardboard standup take a trip in time and propose a positive, but not consolatory, interpretation of American history. After wars and social and economic collapse, each time, America is able to lift herself up again and to hazard historical-political choices, until then, hard to imagine. As Scarlett O'Hara would say, "After all, tomorrow is another day". Gaialight has exhibited in Rome, Paris, New York and Munich and is among the new generation of artists that best represents the contamination of languages. The Italian and international press have written her up and a reproduction of one of her works, The Wall, recently became the cover of Io donna, the women's weekly magazine of the Corriere della Sera. She is present in the eleven volume work, Arte Contemporanea, Electa Mondadori (volume 9 - Contaminazioni, chapter Cinema). Her most recent works are the installation Bare Smile exhibited in the foyer of the Teatro Valle and the celebration of the Funeral of Female Suffering, with Lidia Ravera, in the park at Villa Torlonia in Rome.
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GAIALIGHT CON LA MOSTRA "LIGHT AMERICA"
ALLA GALLERIA FONTANELLA BORGHESE Con la mostra Light America, a cura di Simona Botti e Tiziana Gazzini, la Galleria Fontanella Borghese presenta una ventina di opere inedite realizzate dall'artista italo-americana Gaialight (www.gaialight.com) nel periodo che va da metà 2008 al 20 gennaio 2009, data dell'insediamento di Barack Obama alla Casa Bianca. A due anni dal suo definitivo trasferimento a New York, Gaialight ha iniziato a viaggiare dalla California ai confini con il Messico, dall'Arizona alla Florida, da Detroit a La Vegas, da New York a Washington, in compagnia di Scarlett O'Hara (Rossella O'Hara per gli italiani), l'icona più popolare e complessa dell'immaginario di Hollywood. Nella sua versione pop (una sagoma di cartone – cardboard standup – acquistata su internet) la protagonista di Via col vento è così ancora una volta testimone di quel delicato momento di transizione che accomuna la vigilia dei grandi appuntamenti della storia. Durante la lunga campagna per le elezioni presidenziali, l'occhio di Gaialight ha selezionato visioni, temi e situazioni d'attualità, e come sempre, li ha "lightizzati" attraverso la sua particolare tecnica mixed media. Il fotoreportage dell'America contemporanea si è così trasformato, grazie a un'idea narrativa e a un'espressione artistica originale e sofisticata, in un ciclo di opere che vanno oltre la cronaca per proporre un'interpretazione simbolica dell'America di oggi che per molti aspetti assomiglia ancora a quella rappresentata dall'eroina di Via col vento: bella, forte, orgogliosa, tenace, combattiva, profondamente legata alla sua terra, ma anche fragile, contraddittoria, viziata, amata e odiata. E soprattutto capace di reinventarsi. Osservando da vicino l'America delle praterie e di Zabriskie Point, dei Casinò e dei locali per soli uomini, del surf e delle rovine industriali di Detroit, ma anche quella di Wall Street e della 5^ Avenue, Gaialight e il simulacro di cartone di Rossella O'Hara compiono un viaggio nel tempo e propongono un'interpretazione positiva, ma non consolatoria, della storia americana. Dopo le guerre, dopo i collassi economici e sociali, l'America sa ogni volta rialzarsi e azzardare scelte storico-politiche poco prima difficilmente immaginabili. Perché, come direbbe Rossella O'Hara, "dopotutto, domani è un altro giorno". Gaialight ha esposto a Roma, Parigi, New York, Monaco di Baviera ed è tra gli artisti delle nuove generazioni che rappresentano meglio la contaminazione dei linguaggi. Hanno scritto di lei la stampa italiana ed estera e una sua opera, The Wall, è recentemente diventata la copertina di Io donna, il settimanale femminile del Corriere della Sera. E' presente nell'opera in undici volumi Arte Contemporanea, Electa Mondadori (volume 9 - Contaminazioni, capitolo Cinema). Recentissima l'installazione Bare Smile nel Foyer del Teatro Valle a Roma e la performance Funerale del dolore femminile, con Lidia Ravera, nel parco di Villa Torlonia. ![]() |
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The Funeral of Female Suffering
celebrated by Lidia Ravera at Villa Torlonia.
In the foyer of Teatro Valle the installation Bare Smile for the play "The Invisibles". The ceremony will begin at 5:30 pm and end at 8:00 pm PRESS RELEASE
From April 17 to 26, 2009 the foyer of Teatro Valle will host the photographic installation Bare Smile by the artist Gaialight (www.gaialight.com) simultaneous to the performance of The Invisibles – Stories of Femininity Violated (production: Emanuela Giordano, drammaturgy: Emanuela Giordano and Lidia Ravera, starring Maddalena Crippa) dedicated to the testimonies of young Indian, Nepalese and Pachistani women disfigured by acid at the hands of their husbands, fiancées, fathers, brothers according to a tragic custom still practiced in many countries. Through post-pop language, surrealistic and conceptual, Gaialight expresses in her work the same values as the theatrical work in support of the women so dramatically deprived of their faces and their smiles. Sunday April 19, within the framework of the same initiative, the park at Villa Torlonia will host an art action entitled Funeral of Female Suffering in which the artist Gaialight and the writer Lidia Ravera combine their languages to denounce the extreme suffering of the women disfigured by acid and the normal daily suffering of all women. The appointment is at 11:30 AM at the entrance to Villa Torlonia, Via Nomentana 70. From here Bare Smile (a small coffin artistically decorated) will be carried in procession across the park to Campo da Tornei where it will be set down and opened to the public. The project Barelight – 13 art and resistance actions, curated by Tiziana Gazzini, will be presented as individual denunciation initiatives - civil, aesthetic, social, cultural – the first of which, War Funeral. was held in Rome on January 20, 2009 at the Galleria 10b photography. Foyer of Teatro Valle Production: Patronage: A Villa Torlonia il Funerale del dolore femminile celebrato con Lidia Ravera. Dal 17 al 26 aprile 2009, il Foyer del Teatro Valle ospiterà un'installazione fotografica dell'opera Bare Smile dell'artista Gaialight (www.gaialight.com) in contemporanea alla messa in scena dello spettacolo Le invisibili - Storie di femminilità violate (regia: Emanuela Giordano, drammaturgia: Emanuela Giordano e Lidia Ravera, protagonista Maddalena Crippa) dedicato alle testimonianze di giovani donne indiane, nepalesi, pachistane sfigurate dall'acido per mano dei loro mariti, fidanzati, padri, fratelli, secondo una tragica usanza ancora praticata in molti paesi. Domenica 19 aprile, nell'ambito della stessa iniziativa, il parco di Villa Torlonia ospiterà un'azione d'arte intitolata Funerale del dolore femminile in cui l'artista Gaialight e la scrittrice Lidia Ravera uniscono i loro linguaggi per denunciare il dolore estremo delle donne sfigurate dall'acido e il normale dolore quotidiano di tutte le donne. L'appuntamento è alle ore 11.30 all'ingresso di Villa Torlonia su Via Nomentana 70. Da qui l'oggetto d'arte Bare Smile (una piccola bara artisticamente elaborata) si muoverà in corteo attraverso il parco della Villa per arrivare al Campo da Tornei dove la Bare Smile sarà deposta e aperta al pubblico. Il progetto Barelight Con il Funerale del dolore femminile Gaialight è alla seconda azione che prende spunto dal ciclo Barelight: 13 piccole bare artisticamente elaborate per affrontare in maniera "light" temi e costumi del nostro tempo (la guerra e la pena di morte, lo sport malinteso e l'anoressia, il dolore femminile e la pornografia, ecc.). Il progetto Barelight - 13 azioni d'arte e resistenza, a cura di Tiziana Gazzini, verrà presentato via via, nel corso di singole iniziative di denuncia - civile, estetica, sociale, culturale – la prima delle quali, il Funerale della Guerra, si è svolta a Roma, il 20 gennaio 2009 presso la Galleria 10b photography.
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to be held in Rome on 20 January 2009
at 10b Photography Gallery Via San Lorenzo da Brindisi, 10b The ceremony will begin at 5:30 pm and end at 8:00 pm PRESS RELEASE
20 January 2009. In Rome, the artist Gaialight and the photographer Francesco Zizola celebrate the War Funeral Tuesday 20 January 2009 – Galleria 10b Photography Rome, via San Lorenzo da Brindisi, 10b– Garbatella On 20 January 2009, at the Galleria 10b Photography, in concomitance with the end of George W. Bush's mandate and the swearing in of Barak Obama, a trend-setting artist and a great photographer will add their voices to those who call for the end of all wars. The Italo-American artist Gaialight with her work Bare War (a real, small coffin, artistically elaborated) and the photographer Francesco Zizola with his exhibition Iraq-Photographs of the War will celebrate the War Funeral for all wars, present and future, in a collective gesture intended to express, through diverse artistic languages, the hope of peace of all men of good will, tried sorely by events evermore bellicose and painful. Doctors without Borders will be present to remind us of the many humanitarian crises forgotten by the media where, today, more than ever, an independent and impartial humanitarian action is of vital importance to aid the populations victims of war, epidemics and natural catastrophes. Bare War is part of the unpublished cycle Barelight; it is also the occasion of the first in a series of Actions of Art and Resistance, a project curated by Tiziana Gazzini. Here is how War Action will unfold. A funeral procession will leave from Largo delle Sette Chiese at 17:30 PM and will wind through the streets of Garbatella to conduct the Bare War to the gallery at via San Lorenzo da Brindisi where Gaialight's work will be opened and displayed to the public. Live coverage with Washington will begin at 6:00 PM at the Galleria 10b Photography to transmit Barach Obama's inaugural address. The exhibition Iraq. Photographs of the War by Francesco Zizola, curated by Deanna Richardson, will then be inaugurated. This is the moment of Zizola's invective. Zizola, a photoreporter who has received numerous World Press Photo Awards, presents for the first time to the Roman public photographs which document from a "civil" point of view the horrors of an Iraq in flames, symbol of all countries in flame. It took the War Funeral and the end of the Bush mandate to convince Zizola to do what he had never planned to do –show his photographs in his own gallery. The Action will be transmitted live on the web site www.10bphotography.com and will be documented on video by the film director Alex Infascelli. The exhibition Iraq-Photographs of the War and the installation Bare War will be on exhibit at the Galleria 10b Photography from 21 January to 22 February 2009, Tuesday through Sunday from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM and from 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM. At the same time, young volunteers from Doctors without Borders will be present in the gallery to inform the public of the activities of their organization and to solicit support for it. The initiative is realized by the gallery Galleria 10b Photography (www.10bphotography.com), La coda dell'occhio-Onlus Cultural Association (www.lacodadellocchio.com), and Medici senza frontiere - Onlus Association (www.medicisenzafrontiere.it). COMUNICATO STAMPA 20 gennaio 2009. A Roma, l'artista Gaialight e il fotografo Francesco Zizola fanno il Funerale della Guerra Martedì 20 gennaio 2009 - Galleria 10b photography Roma, via San Lorenzo da Brindisi, 10b– Garbatella Il 20 gennaio 2009, alla Galleria 10b photography, in concomitanza con la fine del mandato di George W. Bush e l'insediamento alla Casa Bianca di Barak Obama, un'artista di tendenza e un grande fotografo aggiungono le loro voci a quanti chiedono la fine di tutte le guerre. L'artista italo-americana Gaialight con l'opera Bare War (una piccola bara, vera, artisticamente elaborata) e il fotografo Francesco Zizola con la mostra Iraq-Fotografie della guerra faranno il Funerale della Guerra, delle guerre passate presenti future, attraverso un'Azione collettiva che vuole esprimere, attraverso diversi linguaggi artistici, l'auspicio di pace di tutti gli uomini di buona volontà, messo a dura prova dall'attualità sempre più bellica e dolorosa. Medici Senza Frontiere (MSF) sarà presente per ricordare le tante crisi umanitarie dimenticate dai media dove, oggi più che mai, è di vitale importanza un'azione umanitaria indipendente e imparziale per soccorrere le popolazioni vittime di guerre, epidemie e catastrofi naturali. La Bare War, che ha per protagoniste l'immagine-manifesto del film di Oliver Stone, Platoon, e una data: 01-20-2009, appartiene al ciclo inedito Barelight, ed è l'occasione per la prima di una serie di Azioni d'Arte e Resistenza, progetto a cura di Tiziana Gazzini. Ecco come si svolgerà l'Azione War. Alle 17.30 da Largo delle Sette Chiese partirà un corteo funebre che si snoderà per le strade della Garbatella per condurre la Bare War fino al 10b di via San Lorenzo da Brindisi, dove l'opera di Gaialight sarà aperta ed esposta al pubblico. Alle 18.00 la Galleria 10b Photography si collegherà con Washington per trasmettere in diretta il discorso d'insediamento di Barack Obama. Sarà poi inaugurata la mostra Iraq. Fotografie della guerra di Francesco Zizola, a cura di Deanna Richardson. E' l'invettiva di Zizola, fotoreporter dai molti World Press Photo Awards, che presenta per la prima volta al pubblico romano le fotografie che documentano il punto di vista "civile" degli orrori di un Iraq in fiamme, simbolo di tutti i paesi in fiamme. L'Azione sarà trasmessa in diretta web sul sito www.10bphotography.com e sarà documentata in video dal regista Alex Infascelli. La mostra Iraq-Fotografie della guerra e l'installazione Bare War saranno esposte alla Galleria 10b photography dal 21 gennaio al 22 febraio 2009 dal martedì alla domenica, ore 11-13/15-18. Negli stessi orari, il sabato e la domenica giovani volontari di Medici Senza Frontiere saranno presenti in Galleria per informare il pubblico sulle attività di MSF e per raccogliere adesioni e sostegni all'Associazione. L'iniziativa è realizzata da 10b photography (www.10bphotography.com), La coda dell'occhio-Associazione Culturale onlus (www.lacodadellocchio.com), e Medici senza frontiere- Associazione onlus (www.medicisenzafrontiere.it). ![]() |
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Homage to Tribeca Film Festival
with the support of the
Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Nancy Koltes at Home, 31 Spring Street, New York
Opening reception Thursday, April 24, 6-8 pm The show will run from April 25 through May 24. 2008 Curator: Tiziana Gazzini Critical Apparatus: GK/Agence‘X'
Proposed by:
Nancy Koltes and La coda dell'occhio - Cultural Association
The
exhibition Starlight in New York by the artist Gaialight, curated by
Tiziana Gazzini, with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of
New York, will be held from April 25 to May 24, 2008 at the Nancy
Koltes at Home store (www.nancykoltesathome.com) in New York.
The exhibition, proposed by the cultural association La coda dell'occhio, in collaboration with the GK / Agence ‘X', is a homage to the Tribeca Film Festival (April 23 – May 4) by the Italo-American artist Gaialight, who works with icons of mass culture, dedicating particular attention to the cinema. Gaialight, who lives and works between New York and Europe (her next exhibition will be inaugurated on June 5 at the Drissien Galerie, Munich, Germany), is the first artist to whom the stylist Nancy Koltes, number one in home fashions, opens one of her elegant stores. This artistic initiative combines cinema, fashion and culture and affirms the Italo-American creativity that contributed to the success of her griffe and her style, because it was precisely in Italy, in Como, during the ‘90's, that Nancy began to produce her elegant household linens. Twenty-five three dimensional collages will be exhibited on Spring Street, all realized with mixed media techniques on one of Gaialight's favorite objects: maxi-cans, on which the artist tells a story through pictures, with refined optical effects and ironic thematic juxtapositions. Protagonists are films and great stars of the international cinema tied to the city of New York and the collective imagination of the American and Italo-American cinema: Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, the Lolitas, Sue Lyon, Jody Foster e Mina Suvari, Woody Allen's Manhattan, and John Travolta's Brooklyn in Saturday Night Fever and Alberto Sordi in Un americano a Roma; Sex and the City and a surreal telephone conversation between Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby and a character from the Muppet Show. Some cans are expressly dedicated to sleep, or to dreams, like the dream-like close-up of Bob De Niro clouded in opium fumes in Sergio Leone's masterpiece Once upon a Time in America or Audrey Hepburn-Holly's sleep scene in Breakfast at Tiffany's or the Science of Sleep. Faces, places, words which Gaialight trasforms into form, signs and color to give life to works which are pleasant, or light, as is her stage name, but which are also profound, sarcastic and poetic. The exhibit includes two of the artist's historical works, the Girls and Hom panels, mosaics of some of the greatest female and male stars of motion picture history, from Marlon Brando to Grace Kelly, in a new version realized expressly for the New York exhibition. A homage to the Tribeca Film Festival visualizing cinema as a dream dreamed by everybody together (Jean Cocteau). Cinema not as a show, but as one of the fine arts, as the critic and essayist, GK/ Agence ‘X', reminds us in the essay Art as such: this is Not Pop written on the occasion of the exhibition. ![]() |
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diid disegno industriale industrial design is the bimonthly magazine of innovation and research directed by Tonino Paris, edited by Redesignpress via Angelo Brunetti, 42, 00186 Rome - 0039063225362 This work by the Italo-American artist Gaialight was realized for the exhibition Roma Design più (5 – 14 October 2007) and proposes a collage of images and microtexts on an object of industrial design for mass consumption: the can. Gaialight utilizes also in this case the collage technique, producing single works, which are then assembled, photographed front/back and printed in limited editions. ![]() |



















































