Italian Cinema Today

  Known for contemporary landscapes that fuse art and technology, Eric LoPresti is a Brooklyn-based artist with a strong sense of Italian identity.   “My father’s family emigrated from Sicily via Ellis Island in 1905, which might explain a deep connection I still feel with that incredible Italian landscape,” LoPresti explains.   Before attending graduate school at the Maryland Institute College of Art, he studied sculpture at several schools in Europe, including one in Greppocorgno near Perugia in the region of Umbria, under the guidance of the Boston-based sculptor Vincent Ricci.   “For me, this was a transcendent experience — my first time in Italy — and a chance to connect with the Italian modernist tradition,” he says.   Since then, he has focused on painting landscapes and other natural subjects, many of them inspired by the vast deserts of the Columbia Plateau in Washington State.    The COVID lockdown was a particular productive period for LoPre...

Located in Soho, The Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) in New York City recently opened its doors and is welcoming visitors to explore its opportunities and works. The center is currently exhibiting an installation of the work of Italian artist Fortunato Depero (1892–1960). The installation coincides with the Guggenheim's exhibition, Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe, which runs until September 1, 2014. The CIMA's mission is to promote scholarly research and public appreciation of modern and contemporary Italian art throughout the United States and around the world. Through research fellowships, annual exhibition installations, and cultural programming, CIMA advocates for a deeper awareness of 20th-century Italian art and its legacy today. By bringing into dialogue the work of Italian modern artists with contemporary artists from around the world, CIMA’s installations raise awareness of the legacy and lasting influence of 20th-century...

GAGOSIAN GALLERY - ROME  Kathryn Andrews | Alex Israel January 16 - March 15, 2014 Opening reception for the artists: Thursday, January 16, 2014 from 6 – 8PM Gagosian Gallery Rome will present an exhibition of new works by Kathryn Andrews and Alex Israel. Born in 1973 in Mobile, Alabama, Kathryn Andrews creates sculptures, prints, performances and other works that explore how material exists representational relationships. Earlier this year Andrews was the subject of a solo exhibition called, "Special Meat Occasional Drink" in Cologne. In 2012 she presented the solo exhibition, D.O.A. | D.O.B. at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles. Andrews was also included in Made in L.A. 2012, organized by the Hammer Museum and LAXART in Los Angeles; First Among Equals, ICA in Philadelphia; and When Forms Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco (traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit). Other recent exhibition...

The Gallery Apart will present “Not yet titled” by Marco Strappato, the second solo show dedicated to the artist after the exhibition "Repetition."  Marco Strappato returns to Rome after a series of artistic and educational experiences, including the recent admission to the 'MA program in Sculpture' at the Royal College of Art in London, the city where the artist has lived and worked for some time.                                                                                                  ...

Il terzo appuntamento romano della rassegna PIÈCE UNIQUE propone tre artiste con altrettanti dittici di auto-rappresentazione. In ogni coppia di frame è condensato il racconto di un peculiare eterno femminino, dove l’io narrante si identifica con l’io narrato, o ne veste i panni, per rivelare un qualche sé all’apparecchio fotografico. I due lavori di Elina Brotherus, sequenze della stessa scena, datano al periodo in cui l’artista - prima di spostare l’attenzione sul rapporto tra figura umana e paesaggio - lavorava con scarno stile documentaristico sull’esperienza relazionale soggettiva e sulla presenza/assenza dell’amore. La stringente referenza autobiografica plasma un’onesta allegoria, quasi in cerca di un antidoto figurato a un dato turbamento esistenziale. Il passo successivo è quello verso cui muove Daniela Perego. Nell’immergere se stessa nelle tensioni della metropoli contemporanea, l’artista si fa unità di misura emozionale dello spazio e crea un’esperi...

Dal testo di Guglielmo Gigliotti: «Che forma dare allo straniante che abita le cose e allo straniero che abita in noi? E il meraviglioso,  questo sentimento così poco redditizio ma così gravido di bellezza: come dipingerlo?  Ceccotti e Verrelli prendono in prestito squarci di Roma, particolari talvolta irrilevanti, e chiedono loro di cantare il grande enigma della vita. Lo fanno però con modalità sommesse, cercano una Roma secondaria, e la immergono in luci immobili e astratte, la impregnano di assenze e di silenzi e le insufflano quello che de Chirico definiva il presagio del non senso dell’universo. Sono immagini-dubbio, in Ceccotti ispirate al cinema noir, in Verrelli ad Hopper e ai precisionisti, ma per entrambi immagini insieme chiare ed ermetiche, al contempo viste e sognate. Sono immagini-dubbio perché loro per prime, le immagini, dubitano che le apparenze che contengono siano la realtà, dubitano quindi di se stesse.  Nella lo...