You can breathe an international climate in the spaces of the Primo Piano LivinGallery in Lecce. Dores Sacquegna, curator and promoter of the gallery, composed an all Latin group for the seventh Day of the Contemporary. “Latinamente” (opening next Saturday at 7:30 pm) is a collective that freely moves between South America, United States and Europe with artists who come for the most part from Venezuela and with some eccentric presences. Between the veterans of the LivinGallery there is Carlos Anzola, minimal artist who works with poor materials away from the stress of immediate recognizability. They are works made with “the pleasure of the handwork” simple in the format dimension, but soaked of meanings deliberately obscure, with a constant religious symbolic background.
Astolfo Funes instead moves on a different register intensifying the visions of an ambiguous landscape in an all feminine way, often built on the themes of the double. A territory populated by twisted and convulsive bodies, soaked in mysticism, superstition and treated with a substantial humor with a color that snaps to expressionist tradition and the American graffiti.
Bartu Bartolomes lived exiled in the United States, in Europe and in Italy where he shared the research of the visual poets (Lamberto Pignotti, Adriano Spatola and Eugenio Miccini). His attention is focused on socially sensitive themes and he is engaged in the environmental front. His project “Global Rights” is intended to motivate the international community in the creation of large caves of drinking water to alleviate the drought of the countries poor of water. His relationship with Carlo Marcello Conti, the only Italian presence of the exhibition and historical protagonist of the Italian sound poetry, is quite close. Conti is one of the founder of the publishing house “Campanotto” with whom Bartolomes collaborates. The works of Carlo Marcello Conti lead us in the world of visual poetry characterized by all European matrix. As many authors of visual-sound poetry he appears hardly classifiable, especially careful to the multi-sensorial involvement of the speculator and able to create synesthesia that intertwine words, images, music and color.
From a completely different register comes José Coronel Ortega author of plastic transparent and aberrant forms which draw on a hyper colored, surreal and floating world, poised between evocation of biological systems and oneiric references, destined to the pure joy of senses.
From United States comes Robert Scott Alger who uses photographic techniques of different matrix that intertwine with multimedia languages.
Back in Venezuela with Paola Puppio Zingg, the youngest of the group, figurative and surreal, centered on “a sort of magic realism” with which mixes female figures with objects-icon of contemporary art.
By Marinilde Giannadrea / Periodico Da Verde
Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia, Anno XI No: 275.
www.quotidianodipuglia.it
Lecce. Italy. Giovedi 6 Ottobre 2011.