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BARI - SEPTEMBER 20 through 30, 2001
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"Alfa Beti"
An artwalk through the works of
Paolo Baldassarri, Amelia Chieco, Luca Curci and Oreste Panebianco.
The "Alfa Beti" project was born of the idea of merging
various artistic languages to create one alphabet (language) that
works for all visitors.
The four artists wanted to do homage to the "enchanted"
places in the heart of the old city, historical-cultural architectural
treasures like the Vallisa church, and made them the common denominator
of the project.
Starting with the existing structures of Vallisa Street, with
its new look, as their studio - the area mostly lit in the Vallisa
church lights, where there are music shows all year - the four
artists have created a sort of a gallery way, an approach built
of their artworks. Walking into Vallisa street one encounters
Oreste Panebianco's "Arcanoids,"
grotesque animal and human faces in relief here and there along
the way accompanying the visitor through the four young artists'
languages, in a procession of peace that has no religions or borders:
Paolo Baldassarri's "Herosouls,"
his digital sound and video creation and installation, is an introduction
to new concepts of art and design through innovative technologies;
Amelia Chieco leads us through her
world of boxes, this time inspired by Italo Calvino's cities;
and Luca Curci ends the journey with
his video installation "Lapsus in Your Mind," one of
his sculptures, and a series of his paintings.
Place: Artoteca Vallisa - 11 Via Vallisa - Bari
Time: From 7 P.M. to Midnight (every day except Monday)
(translated by Kris Petersson)
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BARI - SEPTEMBER 20 through 30,
2001
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"The Rising Sun and the Big
Apple"
Works of the Japanese artists Takafumi
Kamio and Kenji Takeda and U.S. artists Ward George and Mark Rodriguez.
Abusuan was born in the old city of Bari, meeting
place of peoples, cultures and religions; it's located in the perfect
place for it, Vallisa Street, the crossroads of artisans, trade
and art on the edge of the Bari docks, near the medieval taverns
of the old Benedictine monastery.
Mark Rodriguez's installation recalls
the culture of the Americas with echoes of the primitive. A work
of sure scenografic and visual impact.
Takafumi Kamio studies nature, observes
it and recolors it...all with the help of new technologies.
Kenji Takeda, advertising graphic designer
and artist, has been studying form deeply for years: deforming it,
digitalizing and printing it, with supports built in a way that
remind one very much of oriental culture.
Ward George uses painting, photography,
computer art and digital printing for his best expression of his
model of the ideal woman. The results are surprisingly communicative. Place: Abusuan - 67/68 Vallisa Street - Bari
Time: from 7 P.M. to Midnight (every day except Monday)
(translated by Kris Petersson)
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© Copyright 2001
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