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"LIGHT TREATMENT" München 2008

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

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LA STAMPA

Italy, October 19th 2007

BRAVO special edition
STARS ON PARADE THROWN ONTO CANS

by Simonetta Robiony
Rome

The most creative homage to the Rome Film Festival arrives in Paris with the discovery of a new artist by the name of Gaialight who uses household items to launch her messages. A most alternative exhibition entitled Starlight, opens today, day of the inauguration of the Rome Film Festival, at La Libreria, a place on the rue du Faubourg Poissonniere.
On tin cans, (ah, how many cans in the universe of the world of design!) the artist who wants to celebrate the Festival, has pasted, with her manic precision, the faces of stars of yesterday and today, thereby reminding the French that Rome is also cinema, Veltroni is also Jack Lang, that she is also Light, meaning light, the element which defines cinema, but above all, in the sense of lightness, the quality with which you can transmit whatever you please, even if it’s extremely violent, aggressive, derisive because if said with lightness it never hurts too much.

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Blonde, chic, thirty-year old, half Italian, half American, glowing from the success of an exhibition in Rome entitled Light Treatment where she transformed crutches for the invalid, wheelchairs for the disabled, walkers for he who can no longer walk unassisted, and hearing aids for the hard of hearing into colored and entertaining articles which could be displayed at home as furniture or be taken to school to meditate on how we treat handicaps and the disabled, this would-be lawyer tells us that she chose tin cans for their rounded form without sides, on which she could crowd everything she wanted.
And she pasted on them, in a feminine series, pictures of Marilyn, Liz Taylor, Shirley Temple, Audrey Hepburn; in the parallel masculine series, she lined up Toto, James Dean, Mastroianni, Marlon Brando, Jerry Lewis, just to speak of the cinema she loves. In another series, that on how the cinema treats illness, temporary or definite as it would be, she crowded on sequences from Rear Window by Hitchcock, Speak to Her by Almodovar, Planet Terror by Rodriguez. The last Italian film that this strange girl of pop-art liked best? "The film on back-stage of The Passion by Mel Gibson entitled the Big Question, by Francesco Cabras and Alberto Molinari. Few people saw it but that was the fault of mistaken distribution." That which she liked least? "The films by the Muccino in general. Both brothers make films that don’t interest me."
The Rome Film Festival, object of her homage, remains in the background. No poster sings its praise. No blow-up glorifies the mayor of Rome. Nothing graphic draws your attention to Sofia Loren who is, nevertheless, one of the Festival’s godmothers. The message is hidden. He who wants to understand, understands.